Snowball Bark

I worked into the wee hours of the night on my chocolate bark. Not going to bed until 10:30 (that would be wee for me). I made three kinds of bark, two batches of snowball bark, dark chocolate with cranberries and chocolate roasted almonds and finally chili dark chocolate with cranberries and chocolate roasted almonds.

I put all the batches in the cold oven to cool over night and woke early at 5:23AM so I got up and chopped up my bark. The two snowball batches were on the top. They were perfect.

I took photos of them and congratulated myself smugly on how I'm the chocolate bark master. I couldn't believe how easy it was. I wondered why people have all these problems with making chocolate recipes. As I removed the second tray to reveal my dark chocolate trays below I realized how mistaken I was. As perfect as my snowball bark came out the dark chocolate was the opposite. There were unsightly white blooms all over it. So now I have two batches of dark chocolate bark in my freezer because I couldn't bring myself to throw it out. It still tastes good, it just doesn't look pretty.

I'll spare you the dark chocolate and just show you the pretty one.

Snowball Chocolate Bark

Since I didn't measure exact amounts I won't do a printable recipe

Ingredients

1 bag of milk chocolate morsels
1 tsp vegetable oil
Mix-Ins:
1 handful of mini marshmallows
1 handful of quartered bite size Reese’s peanut butter cups
1 handful of peanuts
1 handful of Heath bar crunch
1 handful of mini rod pretzels broken into small pieces
Plus about 1 cup of additional mix-ins to put on top

Directions

1. Over a simmering pot of water, place the chocolate morsels in a heat proof bowl and add the vegetable oil. Stir constantly until melted.

2. Remove from heat and add the mix-ins.

3. Spread the mixture on a baking pan lined with parchment paper and top with the cup of additional mix-ins.