With the holidays just around the corner, who couldn’t use a new simple chocolate Christmas dessert recipe? Are you looking for a sweet treat to add to your dessert menu? Do you need an extra sweet gift for someone at Christmas? Look no further then this easy recipe for peppermint bark!
The smell and taste of peppermint is one of the most craved during the Holidays. And of course, everyone needs a little chocolate! Now you can have them both with this recipe for chocolate bark with peppermint. This lip-smacking Peppermint Bark uses only 3 ingredients. And best of all, you can prepare this peppermint bark using chocolate chips in less than 20 minutes.
So, grab your apron and let’s get cooking by making this recipe for Christmas bark! You will be at the top of everyone’s thank you Christmas list with this homemade peppermint bark.
How to crush Candy Canes
How to easily crush candy canes? To get small crushed pieces of candy cane, I put them in a Ziplock freezer bag and crush it with the flat side of a meat tenderizer, a rolling pin, a hammer, or a rubber mallet. Put the closed bag on a cutting board and top the bag with a towel. Smash the bag until you reach your desired coarseness.
Peppermint bark Christmas gift
For a special treat, you can make an extra batch of this recipe for chocolate bark with peppermint and give away as easy edible Christmas gifts.
Go to your local store that sells that sells cute, adorable holiday bags or containers. Pick up a few and as you break apart these DIY peppermint bark, put some into the bags or containers. Add a bow and a gift tag and there you have a wonderful, delicious, inexpensive Christmas gift that anyone would love.
Peppermint Bark Recipe
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Peppermint bark 3 ingredients
- 12 oz. (300 grams) Bag chocolate chips
- 12 oz. (300 grams) Bag of white chocolate chips
- 8 peppermint candy canes, crushed
Ingredient variations
You can use milk, semi-sweet, or dark chocolate chips
Kitchen tools needed
- Double boiler or see note below
- Cookie sheet with wax paper
- Spatula
How to make easy peppermint bark
Break apart candy canes. Set aside.
Using a double boiler, add chocolate chips and stir occasionally with a spatula until chocolate is melted. Pour the melted chocolate into a 9 x 12-inch cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Once again, using the double boiler (after washing the chocolate out) melt the white chocolate chips.
Pour directly over the melted chocolate. Sprinkle with the crushed candy canes. Place cookie sheet into freezer for 5 minutes or until hardened. Break candy apart. Place in a festive dish.
Note: If you don’t have a double boiler, get two different size pots. Fill the biggest one half way full with water. Set the little pot inside the bigger pot and you have a double boiler.
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Easy Recipe for Peppermint Bark
Equipment
- Double boiler or see note below
- Cookie sheet with wax paper
- spatula
Ingredients
- 12 oz. Bag chocolate chips 300 grams
- 12 oz. Bag of white chocolate chips 300 grams
- 8 peppermint candy canes crushed
Instructions
- Break apart candy canes. Set aside.
- Using a double boiler, add chocolate chips and stir occasionally with a spatula until chocolate is melted.
- Pour the melted chocolate into a 9 x 12-inch cookie sheet lined with wax paper.
- Once again, using the double boiler (after washing the chocolate out) melt the white chocolate chips.
- Pour directly over the melted chocolate. Sprinkle with the crushed candy canes.
- Place cookie sheet into freezer for 5 minutes or until hardened.
- Break candy apart and place in a festive dish.
I love peppermint bark. This recipe is so easy to make and is definitely a must try.
I think this would be a great treat for my Christmas party!
I like how the ingredient list is kept simple.
This recipe looks festive and delicious for the holidays
I would love to make this with the grandkids. It is a nice and easy recipe to involve them in. Baking with them is a Christmas tradition I love. Thanks for the recipe.
Hope you do and let me know who they liked the recipe!
I don’t cook!! If I made something like this I would end up eating it all. My niece makes a different type of bark 2 or 3 times a year. Sharing this with her and when they make it I will get a bag.
Oh my gosh! My grandson is going to lose his mind when we make this!! He LOVES candy canes, but on the peppermint ones! Thank you so much for the recipe!!
My pleasure!
I would love to make this recipe with my nieces as I think it would be something they could help with and especially enjoy sprinkling the crushed candy canes on top!
Kids love to make bark and it’s so easy to do! Enjoy!