I discovered Peppermint Bark from the Americans! It’s so easy to make, so delicious and not in the least bit good for you. We only have it at Christmas time, so we call it Christmas Peppermint Bark! Do keep it in the fridge … Christmas Peppermint Bark can get a bit melty and bendy at room temperature (and less posh looking).
Father Christmas makes an incredible one.
What You Need:
- Good quality chocolate (I prefer milk, but choose whichever chocolate you love eating the most, whether it’s milk, white or dark chocolate). If you need it to be gluten & dairy free then I can really recommend Montezuma’s chocolate. I use 200g.
- Candy Canes (about 8-10). It depends how much of a minty crust you’d like.
What You Do:
- Cover a large baking tray with some parchment paper.
- Take the wrapper off the candy canes and place them inside a closed food bag. Smash them into tiny pieces – you’ll end up with the full range of some chunky pieces all the way down to some fine powder. The kids LOVE doing this bit.
- Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt it in a heatproof dish (e.g. in a pyrex bowl), sitting on top of a pan of boiling water.
- Once it’s all completely melted, stir it well and then spread it over the parchment paper to form a thin-ish even layer using a palette knife.
- Quickly sprinkle the candy cane pieces over the chocolate and gently press them into the surface of the chocolate.
- Put the Peppermint Bark into the fridge until it’s set hard, break it into pieces and place it in an airtight container in the fridge.
You may also like to see other Christmas Recipes & Christmas Baking Ideas including:
Amazing Gingerbread Men
Easy Christmas Tree & Christmas Star Pizzas
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What a great idea! They are so festive & they’d be fun for the kiddies to help make & of course eat them too! Yum x
Thank you and yes it’s definitely a family event in both the making and the eating departments!
Oh yum! The kids would love this! I might have a go next week with them using dairy-free chocolate. I will need to keep my hands well away though as off sugar as far as possible!!
I’m also trying to stay off the sugar. It definitely doesn’t agree with me!
I have just raided the closest thing I had in the cupboard to this beauty which was buttons, chocolate buttons so not a touch on this-WOW! Just wow! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays x
Oh I totally love chocolate buttons. And mint Aeros and After Eights…can you detect a theme??
Yum! I’m thinking this would be a good gift idea for Finn’s nursery teachers. He always like to make them something at Christmas and this would be perfect 🙂
Do you know, it actually would. Do store it in the fridge after you’ve made it so it stays hard though 🙂
Oh wow, come to Mama! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
It’s so delicious. Too delicious 😀
This looks so pretty! What a fun and easy recipe for the kids. We are off to America on Friday so I’ll have to pick up some good candy canes. #freefromfridays
Ooh good idea! Have a really lovely time – will you be there for thanksgiving?
Wow, I’d never have thought to use candy canes in this way. What a cool idea. Thanks so much for linking up to #fartglitter x