Amazing Christmas Chocolate Bark Recipe

Say hello to our favourite Christmas chocolate bark recipe! It's a totally delicious combo of milk and white chocolate swirled together and sprinkled with pistachios, cranberries, gold dust and edible sparkly silver stars.

Our Christmas chocolate bark is oh so easy to make and deliciously pretty to look at.

It's the perfect Christmas recipe and ideal as a last minute edible gift... if you can part with it that is....

Christmas Chocolate Bark Recipe

Serves – 6

Prep Time – 15 minutes 

Total Time – 15 minutes 

Equipment Needed

• Baking Tray (approx. 30cm x 15cm)

• Sheet of greaseproof paper (or parchment paper) - to line the baking sheet

• 2 saucepans

• 2 glass or metal bowls

• 2 metal spoons

• Spatula

• Cocktail stick

• Teaspoon

Christmas Chocolate Bark Ingredients

You'll just need six ingredients to make this delicious festive chocolate treat!

• 200g milk chocolate - I usually just buy the big Dairy Milk bars for this recipe.

• 120g white chocolate - I use Milky Bars for our chocolate bark recipe.

• 100g shelled pistachios - crush the pistachios using the end of a rolling pin to break them up.

• 50g dried cranberries - if you don't like dried cranberries just swap them for sultanas or raisins.

• ½ teaspoon of edible gold or silver glitter

• 1 teaspoon of edible silver stars

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How To Make Chocolate Bark

Chocolate bark is super easy to make, rustic, simple and delicious!

Step One - line the baking tray

• Line a small tray (approx. 30cm x 15cm) with greaseproof paper - make sure it goes up the sides of the tray to stop any chocolate running underneath.

Step Two - melt the chocolate

• Break the chocolate into two separate bowls, one bowl for the milk and one bowl for the white. Melt the chocolate by standing the bowls in boiling water and stir often until the chocolate until it's all melted.

Alternatively - use the microwave to melt the chocolate

Step Three - make the Christmas chocolate bark

• Pour the melted milk chocolate into the tray and flatten with a spatula, then drizzle over the white chocolate and swirl the melted chocolate together using a cocktail stick.

• Whilst the chocolate is still melted sprinkle over the pistachios, cranberries and decorate with gold dust and edible silver stars.

Step Four - set the chocolate bark in the fridge

• Put the chocolate bark into the fridge to set hard. Once it's set, break it into pieces and eat.

More Christmas Chocolate Bark Recipe Ideas

• switch the milk chocolate for dark chocolate

• make white chocolate bark and just use melted white chocolate decorated with the cranberries, pistachios and edible glitter and stars.

• add any type of nuts or fruit you like - try peanuts, almond or hazelnuts. You can also swirl peanut butter into the chocolate if you like, before adding sprinkles.

• decorate with whichever sprinkles you fancy, you could try mini marshmallows, M&M, chocolate chips or crunched up Oreo or pretzels on your Christmas bark

• one of our lovely chocolate bark ideas is to add a sprinkling of smashed candy canes and make this a peppermint bark

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How To Break Up Chocolate Bark?

Once the chocolate has set in the fridge, just tip it from the tin and break the chocolate into pieces, I tend to just tap it with the end of a rolling pin.

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How Do You Store Chocolate Bark?

Well to be honest it never really needs storing for long... but once broken, I do keep the pieces in the fridge in an air tight container - I remove from the fridge about 20 minutes before eating, it just tastes extra nice that way.

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More Christmas Chocolate Recipes To Make

We just love these Christmas chocolate ideas....

• Terry's Chocolate Oranges Cookies - oh just the nicest chocolate orange cookies, packed with chunks of orange-y chocolate and super easy to make.

• Vintage Chocolate Dipping Spoons - these delicious hot chocolate stirrers make a great homemade gift - they're super easy to make too.

• Cranberry Rocky Roads - delicious, Christmassy rocky road recipe that's so simple to make and tases oh so good!

• Cranberry Flapjacks - easy festive traybake - rich oaty flapjacks with juicy cranberries and topped with white chocolate and sprinkles.

Have you tried our Apple and Mincemeat Crumble - the perfect Christmas crumble recipe, delicious served in a puddle of custard. Or maybe a festive afternoon tea with our Christmas scones?

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