10 Types Of Chocolate Bark: Homemade Gifts For Christmas

10 Types Of Chocolate Bark: Homemade Gifts For Christmas

Stuck on what gifts to give for the holidays? How about homemade bite gifts? If you are looking to conceivably save some money, but choose something worthwhile that is out-and-out to be a hit then candy gifts are a great choice. Chocolate bark recipes are easy to make and even more fun to eat. Chocolate bark are desperate pieces of chocolate recurrently mixed with other candies, nuts or other ingredients or flavors. You can container them in decorative gift boxes, cellophane bags or even a combination agnate cellophane bags inside colorful paper gift bags with Christmas tissue paper, the options are numerous. The options for the chocolate bark recipes themselves is even surpassing.

There are three types of chocolate to choose from: dark chocolate, milk chocolate and silver chocolate. And even within dark chocolate there are degrees of sweetness, the packaging will tell you the degree of sweetness. Once you choose the type of chocolate you want you then you choose the other ingredient to mix in it could be machine from prezel pieces, toffee bits, peppermint bits, chocolate pesos, raisins, nuts of all kinds, other dried fruits, hard shelled chocolate candies allied M&Ms, so on and so on. And there ' s more than just other ingredients. There ' s a third element: candy flavorings. You could pennies the taste of the chocolate by adding a drop or two of oil - based candy flavorings compatible orange, coral, strawberry and more. These can be create at your local baking supply store. I also recommend Michaels here in the US. A baking supply store will have more flavors, though and you could always search online.

Not incontrovertible which combinations that someone especial would allying? Then make a few different chocolate bark recipes and mix and match the gifts. Try three different dark chocolate barks jibing one piece of plain dark chocolate bark, almond dark chocolate bark and cranberry dark chocolate bark. Or conceivably one piece of each chocolate with the corresponding second ingredient or one of each chocolate type with different ingredients in each. For even expanded idea try the corresponding chocolate type but with three different candy flavorings.

Which chocolate brand works best and in which shape ( chocolate roll, wafers, blocks )?

The quality of chocolate is very important. There are some chocolates made for dipping ( coating chocolate ), there are some made for baking ( ex. brownies, mousses, pastries ) and there ' s other chocolate good for eating raw. The best tasting one is the latter which would contain sugar to indulge a good flavoring. This still throws dark chocolate into the mix which could be rose or semisweet, it would depend on the ratio between chocolate fluid and sugar, the more sugar the sweeter. These chocolate will come in blocks or bars, but if all you have on hand are wafers or wage then they will work just fine. I still would hoist the blocks. As far as the brand for Wafers I would go with Wiltons or Merckens. These are two of the most popular brands on the market. You can buy these at a local baking supply store, Michaels and even Wal - Mart is now carrying Wiltons. For the blocks you could go with Hershey ' s or Ghiradelli ' s.

Ready for a recipe? Let ' s try dark chocolate peanut bark. The crunch of the peanuts and snap of the crisped rice cereal add various textures to enjoy.

Dark Chocolate Peanut Bark

Ingredients

1 Bag of Dark Chocolate Coating Wafers ( 16 oz. )

1 1 / 4 Cups Peanut Butter

1 1 / 2 Cups Dry Roasted Peanuts

2 Cups Crisped Rice Cereal

2 Cups Young Marshmallows

Directions

1. Prepare Baking Sheet: Line a 9 salutation 13 baking sheet with increase free ride then wet with cooking oil. Broaden handout should survive beyond the ends of the sheet.

2. Conjugate Chocolate: There are two basic ways you should append chocolate either

a ) with a double boiler - add a small assessment of water to the bottom pot padding only a few centimeters up the side. Simmer on low heat until vapors loom from water. Void smaller pot on top and add chocolate. As chocolate softens perturb. DO NOT OVERHEAT or chocolate will scrape up and burn. Once wholly liquid remove from heat immediately, or

b ) use microwave. In microwaveable pole bowl heat chocolate for 1 immature on 50 % influence. Involve. Chocolate will NOT be wholly liquid yet. Promote process of sweaty on 50 % function in 30 - second intervals then stirring. Every microwave different. You must heat up slowly, that ' s why you carefully heat on half power or you could burn the chocolate.

3. Add Other Ingredients: Stir in other ingredients one at a time to obtain a consistent blend in the following order peanut butter, peanuts, crisped rice cereal and marshmallows.

4. Lavish into Baking Sheet: Precipitate brew onto one end of the baking sheet then tilt it so the mixture flows down to the other end. Tilt sheet back and radiate until chocolate concoction is even. Set aside and let chocolate set ( cool ). Once hardened drop sheet on top of counter to crack the chocolate.

5. Cut into Pieces ( optional ): If needed lift chocolate by ends of enlarge paper and niche onto counter top. gently crack with butter kukri. Should end up with many jagged - edged pieces of candy.

Now combination them in one of the forementioned ways.

What combinations will you make? Here is a list of 10 to try. Or make up your own. Just substitute the chocolate and second ingredient with the ones from the recipe upper. Enjoy!

1. Dark Chocolate Almond Bark

2. Dark Chocolate Dried Cranberries Bark

3. Milk Chocolate Peanuts Bark

4. Dark Chocolate Dried Cranberries Bark with Orange Ginger

5. Milky Chocolate Peppermint Bark

6. Bloodless and Dark Chocolate Chaos Bark with Peppermint Bits ( or pepperment ginger instead of bits )

7. Caramel Covered, Milk Chocolate Pecan Bark

8. Milk Chocolate Bark with Chocolate Covered Soy Dinero

9. Milk Chocolate Crisped Rice Cereal Bark

10. M&M Covered Milk Chocolate Bark


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