Reindeer Bark Recipe

It's Mr Slicker's family Christmas today. It's at the family beach house so we will be back and forth to the beach in between eating, catching up and presents. I have been given the task of making a sweet. I thought what would everyone including the kids like to eat and that is easy for me and tastes delicious. Reindeer bark, of course! It will be great as it doesn't require plates, it's no fuss and we can eat it on the run!

Prep time:
20mins (give or take)

Ingredients:

• 3 bags of Cadbury chocolate melting buttons (you can use dark, white or milk) 
• 10 x candy canes (any flavour)

That's it, yep TWO ingredients

Method:

• fill a large saucepan 1/4 full with water, turn the stove on and begin to boil
• place all chocolate buttons in a glass bowl
• place glass bowl over pot and allow to slowly melt chocolate, stirring occasionally
  Tip: this is called the double-boiler method :)
• you can also melt the chocolate in the microwave  
• place the chocolate in a heat proof dish, heat for approximately 4 mins or until melted (depends on your microwave). Be sure to stir every 15 seconds and don't walk away otherwise you will burn it! I do think it's consistency is better if you melt with the double-boiler method but it is up to you :)

• line a baking tray with alfoil or baking paper
• pour chocolate onto tray and pick the tray up and roll the chocolate into the corners

• place candy canes into a zip lock bag and bang the hell out of it (it's really a good release method, hehe), you can use whatever you like to break it up. I used the handle of a knife sharpener or you can use a rolling pin, just something heavy and strong.

• sprinkle broken up candy canes onto the chocolate

• set in freezer for at least 2 hours or overnight
• once set, take the bark out of the tray and place onto a chopping board, removing the alfoil/baking paper 

 

• use a meat cleaver or large knife to break up chocolate into shards and remember it's bark so keep it all different shapes and sizes
• keep refrigerated in a sealed container
• serve on your favourite platter
• enjoy

You can really go cray cray with what you want to put on the bark - nuts, lollies, marshmallows, the possibilities are endless. I stuck with the traditional with just candy canes.

I did two versions of the bark - white chocolate with raspberry flavoured candy canes and dark chocolate with peppermint flavoured candy canes. Both are so yummy, it's a little dangerous!


Happy Christmas prepping

#Slicker