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Recipe Time! Awesomely easy and delicious chocolate bark.

Sharing DIY Xmas Gifts! I invented this method of making chocolate bark last year because I'm the laziest sumbitch evah. I don't have measurements or exact anythings because, well, lazy.

Chocolate wafers - white, milk, dark, Xmas-coloured. Can also use chips, like milk, butterscotch, carob, etc.
"Includes" - toffee bits, peppermint bits, almond bits, caramel bits, M&Ms, whatever you like.

Put waxed paper on a cookie sheet.

Sprinkle the non-coloured wafers or chips all over the sheet, until about 70-80% of the sheet is covered (depending on how thick you want the bark).

Fire the sheet into the oven at a low, low temperature - "Warm" if ya got it.

Keep an eye on the chocolate. When it starts to look greasy in spots, take it out of the oven.

Sprinkle whatever Includes you chose for this batch of chocolate onto the sheet.

Swirl the different colours of chocolate together with a fork - not too much, now! - making sure to set the Includes into the chocolate. If you're using something pretty like crunched up candy cane or what have you, be sure not to cover them entirely.

If you have lumps in your chocolate, put it all back in the oven for a few until it’s melted good and swirly-like.

Melt coloured wafer chocolates in the microwave. Best method I've found is hot hot water in a container, with a second container that fits just inside of it containing the chocolate. Don't get water into the chocolate; don't let it burn; stir extremely frequently.

Spoon coloured melted chocolate into the corner of a sandwich or freezer bag (or, if you’re fancy, a cake decorator’s bag). Snip off the corner of the plastic bag. Drizzle designs of coloured chocolate all over the bark.

Put sheet into fridge to set, crack it up later, store in freezer bag or covered container, etc.

I have coloured cellophane that I use to line dollar-store tins for delivery of this present.

Posted by nightingayle at November 17, 2003 02:07 PM

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