Marbled alongside nighttime chocolate, sprinkled alongside pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes, together with laced alongside the refreshing deliciousness of pure peppermint extract, this White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark is certain to delight the peppermint lover inwards you. And it's thence super quick together with easy, you'll live inwards together with out of the kitchen alongside this Christmas process inwards no fourth dimension flat!
Still ask a last-minute Christmas process to snack on or give equally a gift? Well, here's 1 that whips upwards inwards a jiff! Seriously, you lot tin convey a batch of this delicious White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark done ... kickoff to complete ... inwards most 25 minutes flat. And that includes chilling time!
That's non equally good bad, is it?
I made this bark to include equally 1 of the treats inwards my gift-giving goodie bags this year. I dearest how slowly it is to whip it upwards inwards large batches ... thence there's enough for gifting ... together with for eating yourself, too!
And the sweet-and-salty flavor combination is simply thence yummy. I never actually realized until this year's Christmas flavour how much I similar peppermint together with salty together ... it's quite tasty. Like inwards the White Chocolate-Peppermint Potato Chips I posted a few days back. And inwards this scrumptious bark.
I was inspired to brand this bark from a recent final result of Southern Living Magazine. Their version was alone white chocolate ... but I decided I needed to create some gustatory modality testing to run across if I liked dissimilar variations better.
So I made upwards a exam pan ... alongside iii dissimilar versions ... manifestly white chocolate, alongside mini chocolate chips, together with marbled alongside semi-sweet chocolate.
All were quite tasty. But nosotros decided nosotros liked the marbled version best. There's simply something most 2 kinds of chocolate swirled together!
So, desire to run across how quick together with slowly it is to brand this quick together with slowly White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark?
Ok, I idea so.
Well, all you lot create is musical rhythm out upwards some pretzel sticks ...
I honour it easiest to position them inwards a zip-top handbag together with gently mash 'em alongside a meat mallet. And I create stress gently. Or you'll terminate upwards alongside a large pile of pretzel dust. And nosotros don't actually desire that.
I purpose the same 'meal mallet' technique.
Then melt some vanilla candy coating, plop it onto some waxed newspaper or parchment ...
... together with spread it out thin.
... together with marbelize them alongside a knife. (Hey, is 'marbelize' a word? ... well, I gauge I'm going to purpose it fifty-fifty if it's not.)
... together with candy cane pieces, together with ...
... popular it inwards the fridge for most x minutes to set. Once the bark is all firmed up, intermission it into pieces.
That's it! Done. Pretty quick, don't you lot think?
But patch you lot wait, whip upwards a batch or 2 of this quick together with slowly White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark. You'll live in-and-out-of-the-kitchen alongside this delicious process inwards no fourth dimension flat!
White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark
- 1 (16 oz.) package vanilla candy coating (like almond bark coating, candy melts, or Candi-Quick)
- 1/2 tsp. peppermint extract
- 1/2 c. coarsely chopped pretzel sticks
- 1/2 c. coarsely crushed peppermint candy canes
- 1/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Line cookie sail or jelly curl pan alongside waxed newspaper or parchment.
- Melt vanilla candy coating inwards the microwave, per parcel directions (typically inwards 30-second intervals, stirring after each interval until melted together with smooth). Stir inwards peppermint extract.
- Spread melted vanilla candy coating onto prepared pan until it's most 1/4-inch thick; don't worry most the form ... you're going to intermission it into pieces after anyway! Melt semi-sweet chocolate chips (about 45 seconds inwards the microwave or inwards a small-scale saucepan over medium-low heat); stir until smooth. Drizzle stripes over the still-warm vanilla candy coating. To marbelize, purpose a sudden knife to depict lines through the vanilla candy coating perpendicular to the chocolate stripes.
- Sprinkle chopped pretzels together with candy cane pieces evenly over the top. Gently press into the coating. Chill inwards the fridge for most x minutes to set. Break into pieces.
Enjoy!
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