Friday, January 25, 2013

"Clean out the Cabinet!" Bark


 Yes, I know. You're saying, "you should've posted this before Christmas!" As I said last week, the entire time between Thanksgiving and last week, things have been crazy!
Christmas always seems to bring out the urge to make sweets in me. Of course I didn't exactly have everything to make what I wanted so I decided to "just WING IT"! I would use that as my slogan and my life's mission statement but I'm afraid Nike would sue me. I call this "Clean out the Cabinet" bark because that's pretty much what I did. It's very festive, don't you think? You could make this for Christmas, birthdays, Easter.... I just used what I had so it was multi-colored mini m&m's but feel free to use red and green m&m's or chocolate chips or Reese's Pieces or sprinkles.
Here is the recipe:
-1 (16 or 24 oz) package milk chocolate bark
-1 (16 or 24 oz) package of white chocolate bark
- half cup peanut butter (optional )
- 15 oz bag pretzel sticks, broken into pieces (you won't use the entire bag, maybe half unless you're a pretzel fanatic)
- chocolate candies (m&m's, Reese's Pieces, whatever you like)
Line a 10"x15" jelly roll pan (it looks like a cookie sheet with sides) with wax paper. Break up the pretzel sticks and place a layer on wax paper. I didn't put a quantity because you may want more pretzel pieces. I just spread them out in a single layer. In the top of a double-boiler, melt the milk chocolate and peanut butter. If you don't have a double-boiler, you can melt chocolate and peanut butter in the microwave. Just microwave 30 seconds, stir, repeat until all melted. Pour over pretzels. Let this layer harden. Melt white chocolate and pour over hardened milk chocolate. While the white chocolate is still warm, sprinkle m&m's or whatever your choice of candies over white chocolate. Let this layer harden. I know, it'll be extremely hard to wait! When the top layer has hardened lift out of pan by the wax paper and break into bite size pieces. Enjoy!!

Pour melted chocolate/peanut butter over layer of pretzels in waxpaper-lined pan.

Close-up of chocolate (gotta have a close-up of the chocolate!)
Layer of white chocolate with mini m&m's sprinkled on top
Break into pieces when all hardened. YUM!


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