OREO Peppermint Bark
Whisking you a Happy New Year! DIY Gift
Happy New Year! New year, new me, I’m hoping to start working out, eating better, yada, yada, yada; but we’ll see how I feel Monday. Anyway, I made peppermint bark for my coworkers and family for the holidays; along with one of my holiday faves, Give Me S’more Cookies. With New Years, our GA trip later this week, and preparing for school, I am behind in posting recipes.
Double boiler method; you only need a small amount of water in the sauce pan. You do NOT want the bottom of the bowl to touch the water.
So I am skipping an intro and going straight to posting! ENJOY!
This is a take on a recipe I found on http://www.foodnetwork.com
https://www.muffinsandmeat.com/2014/12/26/diy-double-boiler/
https://www.muffinsandmeat.com/2013/12/31/give-me-smore-cookies-2/
OREO Peppermint Bark
Ingredients:
- 12 ounces good-quality semi-sweet chocolate, chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 1/2 teaspoons peppermint extract; divided
- 1 pound good-quality white chocolate, chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
- About 10 OREO’s crushed
- 3 candy canes or 12 round hard peppermint candies, crushed
Directions:
- Line a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with aluminum foil, shiny-side up; smooth out any wrinkles. Set aside.
- In a small sauce pan, bring about an inch of water to a boil, pour 1/2 of the semi-sweet chopped chocolate in a heat safe bowl and place on top of the sauce pan. This is the double boiler method; picture above. Continuously stir and add remaining chocolate chunks. Stir until melted. While melting the chocolate you will need to wipe the bottom of the heat safe bowl from condensation. This will keep the chocolate from burning.
- Stir in 3/4 tsp peppermint extract and remove from heat. Quickly stir in crushed OREO’s and immediately pour evenly in to the prepared baking dish. Tap dish on counter to remove any air bubbles. Set aside.
- Repeat the chocolate melting process with the white chocolate, stir in remaining extract, remove from heat and stir in remaining OREO’s*. Pour over top the semi-sweet chocolate layer and immediately sprinkle top layer with crushed candy canes. You may want to press the candy canes in.
- Refrigerate or let sit of room temperature until set.
- Remove bark from pan and break into pieces. You may leave at room temperature in a sealed container up to a 2 weeks. I refrigerated mine only because it can get humid.
- Enjoy!
- *I made half with only OREO’s in the semi-sweet chocolate and the other half with OREO’s in both chocolates.
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