This is the easiest peppermint chocolate swirl bark recipe you need to make for Christmas this year. This is a mint coloured chocolate bark which is swirled with semi sweet chocolate and flavoured with delicious peppermint extract. It is swirled with semi sweet chocolate to create this beautiful pattern that is easier than it looks. This bark will take you just 15 minutes to prepare and is such a pretty and festive treat to share with family, friends and loved ones during the Holidays.
Ingredients you’ll need:
- White Chocolate: I highly recommend using good quality couverture baking chocolate chips or chocolate bars (I use Callebaut 823) to ensure the best flavor. Couverture chocolates are made of cocoa butter as compared to regular compound chocolates which are made of saturated fats like oil.
- Green food coloring: I highly recommend using gel fool colorings to maintain the consistency of your chocolate. You can use any other coloring too alternatively. Food coloring is optional.
- Semi Sweet Chocolate: I highly recommend using good quality couverture baking chocolate chips or chocolate bars (I use Callebaut 811) to ensure the best flavor. Couverture chocolates are made of cocoa butter as compared to regular compound chocolates which are made of saturated fats like oil.
- Peppermint Extract: I highly recommend that you use a high quality, pure peppermint extract. This helps in giving a rich flavor to your bark. This is the primary source of all the mint flavor
FAQ
1. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Set aside.
2. Melt the white chocolate. Use a double boiler or microwave. If using microwave, stir the chocolate every 20 seconds to help avoid seizing.
3. Once melted and smooth, stir in green food coloring and peppermint extract. Set aside.
4. Melt the semi-sweet chocolate in the same manner you melted the chocolate in step 2.
5. Pour the green mint flavoured chocolate onto prepared baking sheet and spread out into a large rectangle. 6. Bang your baking pan on all sides to help it cover maximum area.
7. Drizzle the semi sweet chocolate mixture on top in horizontal lines (left to right and vice versa). Use a toothpick or knife to swirl the layers together. Move the toothpick vertically multiple times (top to bottom and vice versa) to form these pretty swirls.
8. Allow the chocolate to set at room temperature in a cool, dry environment. It usually takes around 30-45 minutes. If needed, you can stick it in the refrigerator to help speed things up. Once hardened, break into pieces as large or as small as you want.
Drizzle the semi sweet chocolate mixture on top in horizontal lines (left to right and vice versa). Use a toothpick or knife to swirl the layers together. Move the toothpick vertically multiple times (top to bottom and vice versa) to form these pretty swirls.
Store bark in an airtight container at room temperature for upto 10 days or in the refrigerator for upto 3 weeks. For longer storage, freeze for up to 2 months and thaw overnight in the refrigerator.
Tips to make the best chocolate peppermint bark:
- Use the very best quality ingredients. This mint chocolate swirl bark requires so few ingredients so be sure to splurge on the good stuff. I highly recommend using high quality couverture dark chocolate. I use Callebaut chocolate and it gives an extremely shiny and smooth look along with an incredible texture. Couverture chocolates also hold their shape at room temperature.
- Use gel coloring. I highly recommend using gel fool colorings to maintain the consistency of your chocolate. You can use any other coloring too alternatively. Food coloring is optional.
- Allow to set completely. Allow the bark to set completely before breaking it into pieces. If the chocolate is not properly set, your hands might smudge the beautiful swirled patterns.
HOW TO GET THE BEST RESULTS FROM THIS RECIPE?
All of the recipes on the blog are thoroughly tested multiple times and carefully designed so that anyone can reproduce these delicious baked good in their own kitchen and enjoy them to the fullest. The only way to make this possible is when anyone can exactly replicate the measurements and temperatures.
- In order to standardise the way ingredients are measured, I highly recommend that you weigh them in grams. Volume measurements are nearly not as accurate and have a lot of scope for errors. To precisely be able to replicate the recipes, all you will need is a kitchen scale!
- Every oven heats up differently. Your oven might be over heating or under heating by around 50 degrees or more and you might not even know. In order to ensure that you are baking at the right temperatures, I highly recommend investing in an oven thermometer!
If you would still like to bake using volume measurements, I mentioned those below. However, I primarily test my recipes in grams and cannot promise the best results if you do so. Trust me, once you’ll start using these tools you’d never want to go back!
I hope you’ll enjoy this easy Mint Chocolate Peppermint Bark this Christmas and don’t forget to bookmark this recipe for the holidays. They are my favorite and perfect to celebrate any occasion with friends and family!
Happy Christmas baking! x
PrintMint Chocolate Swirl Bark
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 15–20 pieces 1x
Description
This is the easiest peppermint chocolate swirl bark recipe you need to make for Christmas this year. This is a mint coloured chocolate bark which is swirled with semi sweet chocolate and flavoured with delicious peppermint extract.
Ingredients
- 226g (8 ounces) white couverture chocolate
- 3 drops green gel food coloring
- 50g semi sweet couverture chocolate
- ½ teaspoon pure peppermint extract
Instructions
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Set aside.
- Melt the white chocolate. Use a double boiler or microwave. If using microwave, stir the chocolate every 20 seconds to help avoid seizing.
- Once melted and smooth, stir in green food coloring and peppermint extract. Set aside.
- Melt the semi-sweet chocolate in the same manner you melted the chocolate in step 2.
- Pour the green mint flavoured chocolate onto prepared baking sheet and spread out into a large rectangle. Bang your baking pan on all sides to help it cover maximum area.
- Drizzle the semi sweet chocolate mixture on top in horizontal lines (left to right and vice versa). Use a toothpick or knife to swirl the layers together. Move the toothpick vertically multiple times (top to bottom and vice versa) to form these pretty swirls.
- Allow the chocolate to set at room temperature in a cool, dry environment. It usually takes around 30-45 minutes. If needed, you can stick it in the refrigerator to help speed things up. Once hardened, break into pieces as large or as small as you want.
- Store bark in an airtight container at room temperature for upto 10 days or in the refrigerator for upto 3 weeks. See freezing instructions in FAQs.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Christmas Candy
- Method: No bake
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: peppermint chocolate swirl bark, mint chocolate swirl bark
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