Peppermint Bark Recipe – Beaming Baker

This Peppermint Bark Recipe is a straightforward, festive sweet that includes decadent layers of white and semi-sweet chocolate infused with peppermint and topped with crushed sweet canes. Good for gifting!

‘Tis the Season with as we speak’s Peppermint Bark Recipe

Soften a pair layers of white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate, then smash my vacation anxiousness out on sweet canes and use that as a topper? Simple. Welcome to the season of pleasure and chocolate with as we speak’s Peppermint Bark Recipe!

Two sorts of peppermint goodness mix with two sorts of chocolate and one festive sweet for the deal with you’ll be making together with your family members for years to come back.

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The Elements You Want + 1 Secret One

Making this peppermint bark recipe is tremendous straightforward, however admittedly, the ‘melting white chocolate’ half can get a bit tough. Be sure to make use of the 1 secret ingredient for the smoothest time.

• Semi-sweet chocolate chips – use your favourite high quality chocolate chips
• Peppermint extract – ensure that that is pure peppermint extract, not one thing synthetic. The higher the standard, the higher the flavour of peppermint in your bark. Right here’s mine.
• White chocolate chips – be sure you slowly soften this one—it likes to harden and get chunky shortly. See the key ingredient for assist.
• Crushed sweet canes – you should use a combo of normal sweet canes and crushed peppermint candies, however I like mini sweet canes finest (extra on that later).
• Secret Ingredient: Coconut oil. Erik and I’ve been melting chocolate for years, and the one stumper: white chocolate. With no little assist, white chocolate can harden and get clumpy shortly. Coconut oil loves staying liquidy when heat, so it’ll maintain your white chocolate in examine!

Find out how to Make Peppermint Bark

This picture tutorial will present you precisely tips on how to make peppermint bark. We’ll go step-by-step, then you possibly can head over the recipe card under for precise measurements.

CRUSH THE CANDY CANES

First, crush the sweet utilizing a meat mallet or rolling pin. You’ll place unwrapped sweet canes (I choose mini) right into a resealable bag.

Then, wrap the bag in a big kitchen towel. Lay the wrapped bag on a sturdy, protected floor. Utilizing the meat mallet, smash the sweet into typically even items. Or, roll to bits with a rolling pin.

MAKE THE PEPPERMINT BARK

Now, line a medium baking sheet with parchment paper or wax paper. Then, clear some house within the freezer for this sheet—you’ll want it later.

Utilizing the double boiler methodology, or the next methodology, soften the semi-sweet chocolate. Microwave in 15-second increments, stirring in between, till melted and easy.

Then, stir in peppermint extract.

Utilizing a spoon or spatula, unfold the peppermint chocolate in easy, even layer on the ready baking sheet.

Freeze for about 3 minutes.

Soften the white chocolate utilizing the identical methodology in a clear bowl.

Then, take away the sheet of largely strong semi-sweet chocolate and shortly unfold the white chocolate on prime to keep away from marbling.

Now, for the enjoyable half: generously sprinkle crushed sweet canes over the white chocolate. Utilizing a finger, gently press the sweet into the white chocolate.

Refrigerate till agency, about 20 minutes.

As soon as agency, set the peppermint bark out till it reaches room temperature, then slice.

Benefit from the best peppermint bark recipe!

Find out how to Customise this Peppermint Bark Recipe

Customizing this peppermint bark recipe is tremendous straightforward. You may make chocolate orange bark, or double chocolate pretzel bark…

• Swap the sweets – for those who’re not a fan of white chocolate, go forward and use a combo of semi-sweet and milk. Others can do darkish chocolate for one layer, and white for the subsequent.
• Change the extract. Not a fan of peppermint? Swap with almond extract and prime with chopped almonds and white chocolate chips. You possibly can even do orange extract and prime with candied orange slices!
• Sub the toppings – don’t need to spend your time unwrapping and crushing sweet canes? Throughout the holidays, shops additionally promote peppermint crunch bark in baggage. You can too do a combo of pretzels and chopped peppermint kisses… the world is your oyster.
• Sprinkle… slightly salt on the bark to make the bark a salty/candy combo. Or, add festive sprinkles to make it cute.

Demeter’s Suggestions

Listed below are a few of my favourite ideas for guaranteeing that your peppermint bark seems fantastically (and tastily).

Crushing Sweet Canes: Unwrap sweet canes and place into a zipper bag, then wrap with a kitchen material—this may shield the bag from being instantly ripped to smithereens by the crushed sweet shards. Then, use a meals mallet or rolling pin on a protected, sturdy floor to crush sweet canes.

Mini Sweet Canes vs. Common: Severely, what’s the distinction? Crushed sweet canes could be a bit missing in shade when crushed. Mini sweet canes have essentially the most vivid pink floor space—this implies extra colourful sweet cane-looking bits on the peppermint bark!

Use the Coconut Oil: Why hassle, proper? Mistaken, sadly. White chocolate could be a actual… beast in the case of melting. Look away for one second, or the home fan activates, and growth! It’s clumpy and hardened—and heating it up once more will solely make issues worse/drier and extra crumbly (!). Enter: the uber useful coconut oil.

Coconut oil loves to remain liquidy when heat; because of this it is going to assist not solely all moisture to the white chocolate, however can even maintain it in a liquid state when you’re spreading it.

Rapidly Unfold the White Chocolate: Transfer shortly when spreading the white chocolate layer over the semi-sweet chocolate layer. Transfer too slowly, and the 2 chocolate with create a marble impact (not the tip of the world—cowl with extra crushed sweet canes!)

Room Temperature Peppermint Bark for Higher Slicing: After refrigerating to harden, enable the peppermint bark to achieve room temperature—this may make for simple, non-brittle slicing.

Joyful Holidays!

Thanks for stopping by and sharing in these joyful vacation delights with me and your family members. You should definitely depart a remark and ranking telling me what you consider as we speak’s recipe. ‘Til our subsequent candy journey…

Sending you all my love and perhaps even a dove, xo Demeter ❤️

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