It’s delicious and… almost gone! My family loves when I make recipes for the blog readers because they get to eat the leftovers 🙂 Except this time, I doubled the batch because I wanted to give some away to neighbors, friends and coworkers. It was a good thing I did, too, because it was disappearing quickly!
I’ve been seeing a ton of recipes around the internet for Peppermint Bark and wanted to try it out, but I’m not a huge fan of peppermint… Then, when I was eating pistachios one day, I thought, HEY! Pistachio Bark would taste amazing!! And, pair it with peppermint and you’ve got red and green for Christmas!
We put together a quick step-by-step of the recipe (warning: lots of photos!) and in part 2, we’ll show you how we packaged it up for our friends!
Recipes:
Peppermint Bark
1 bag (12 oz) of white chips
1 bag (12 oz) of milk or dark chocolate chips
35 small candy canes
Pistachio Bark
1 bag (12 oz) of white chips
1 bag (12 oz) of milk or dark chocolate chips
1 cup of pistachios
For your first layer of chocolate, you’ll want to put your chips in a microwave safe bowl and in the microwave for around 30 seconds. If your microwave runs hot, try 15 seconds. These chips will burn VERY easily, so the less the better!
After the 30 seconds in the microwave, take it out and stir. Put back into the microwave for 10 – 15 seconds. Repeat this step about 4 times, making sure you stir the chocolate each time.
Almost there…
Perfect!
Spread the chocolate on a parchment covered cookie sheet and place in the fridge or freezer for 15 minutes to set.
While your waiting for your chocolate to set, it’s time to crush up your peppermint and/or pistachios!
We put them each in zip-lock bags and use our mallet to crush them up. The pistachios we left in bigger chunks…
Now that your first layer of chocolate has set, you can start on the second layer! Repeat the same steps with the other chips… 
Spread it over the set chocolate…
Sprinkle on your peppermint or pistachio pieces…
And, put it back in the fridge or freezer to set again…
Once it is set, you can break it up into pieces! We left ours in pretty nice size pieces…
Sooooooooooooooo good! Here’s our HUGE WARNING: It’s addictive!!
Bonus! Right now almost all the chocolate is on sale at the store for the holidays! I got a great deal on the Ghirardelli chocolate, so I was excited 🙂 Plus, this made enough for quite a few people – I have lots to give out!
We’ll show you how we packaged them up in our next post… coming soon!
xo, Elle
P.S. Don’t like peppermint or pistachios? Try Cookies and Cream Bark or Lemon Bark!!
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