Make your own treats and gifts, make peppermint bark and offer it in pretty little packages for everyone to enjoy! Such an easy and well love recipe!
Have fun with it and replace crushed peppermint candy for nuts, butterscotch morsels, crushed smarties, cranberries, dry frozen berries... possibilities are endless!
Tip: to avoid the 2 chocolates from separating when you break your bark, use good quality chocolate with no palm oil. Do not add anything to the chocolate! No oil, cream, butter... And follow the directions as written in the recipe!
Crush the candy canes: place it in a resealable bag, then use a meat mallet or rolling pin to break it into small pieces.
Place the semisweet chocolate chips in a medium bowl and microwave for 30 second increments until melted. Or melt over a water bath. Stir until smooth.
Spread the chocolate into a roughly 9″x 13″ rectangle on a piece of parchment paper. Place the chocolate in the fridge for 10 minutes to partially set. Do NOT go past 10 minutes in the fridge. The chocolate should be just set around the edges but still partially melted in the middle. If you let the semisweet layer harden completely, the white chocolate may not stick to it. You can scratch the top of the semisweet layer with a fork too, it will help the white layer to stick better.
Place the white chocolate chips in a medium bowl and microwave for 30 second increments until melted. Add the peppermint extract and stir until smooth.
Spread the white chocolate over the semisweet chocolate layer. Top with candy canes. Let harden in the fridge for about 20 minutes or until the chocolate is completely set.
Remove from the fridge and let the bark sit at room temperature for about 20 minutes. Use a straight edge chef's knife to cut the bark into pieces by cutting straight down through the layers of the bark. Serve and enjoy.
