Quick & Slow White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-By-Step}

Marbled amongst nighttime chocolate, sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes, together with laced amongst the refreshing deliciousness of pure peppermint extract, this White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark is certain to delight the peppermint lover inwards you.  And it's thus super quick together with easy, you'll live inwards together with out of the kitchen amongst this Christmas process inwards no fourth dimension flat!




Still involve a last-minute Christmas process to snack on or hand every bit a gift?  Well, here's i that whips upwardly inwards a jiff!  Seriously, you lot tin accept a batch of this delicious White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark done ... showtime to complete ... inwards virtually 25 minutes flat.  And that includes chilling time!

That's non likewise bad, is it?

I made this bark to include every bit i of the treats inwards my gift-giving goodie bags this year.  I honey how slowly it is to whip it upwardly inwards large batches ... thus there's enough for gifting ... together with for eating yourself, too!

And the sweet-and-salty flavor combination is but thus yummy.  I never actually realized until this year's Christmas flavour how much I similar peppermint together with salty together ... it's quite tasty.  Like inwards the White Chocolate-Peppermint Potato Chips I posted a few days back.  And inwards this scrumptious bark.

I was inspired to brand this bark from a recent lawsuit of Southern Living Magazine.  Their version was entirely white chocolate ... but I decided I needed to produce some sense of savor testing to encounter if I liked dissimilar variations better.

So I made upwardly a examination pan ... amongst 3 dissimilar versions ... patently white chocolate, amongst mini chocolate chips, together with marbled amongst semi-sweet chocolate.

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}

All were quite tasty.  But nosotros decided nosotros liked the marbled version best.  There's but something virtually ii kinds of chocolate swirled together!

So, desire to encounter how quick together with slowly it is to brand this quick together with slowly White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark?

Ok, I idea so.

Well, all you lot produce is musical rhythm out upwardly some pretzel sticks ...

I abide by it easiest to pose them inwards a zip-top pocketbook together with gently mash 'em amongst a meat mallet.  And I produce stress gently.  Or you'll halt upwardly amongst a large pile of pretzel dust.  And nosotros don't actually desire that.

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}

And together with thus musical rhythm out upwardly some candy canes ...

I purpose the same 'meal mallet' technique.

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}

Then melt some vanilla candy coating, plop it onto some waxed newspaper or parchment ...

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}

... together with spread it out thin.

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}

Drizzle on some stripes of melted chocolate chips ...

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}

... together with marbelize them amongst a knife.  (Hey, is 'marbelize' a word? ... well, I estimate I'm going to purpose it fifty-fifty if it's not.)

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}

Sprinkle on the pretzel pieces ...

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}

... together with candy cane pieces, together with ...

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}

... popular it inwards the fridge for virtually 10 minutes to set.  Once the bark is all firmed up, interruption it into pieces.

That's it!  Done.  Pretty quick, don't you lot think?

But piece you lot wait, whip upwardly a batch or ii of this quick together with slowly White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark.  You'll live in-and-out-of-the-kitchen amongst this delicious process inwards no fourth dimension flat!

 sprinkled amongst pretzel pieces together with crushed candy canes Quick & Easy White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark {Step-by-Step}




White Chocolate Peppermint-Pretzel Bark
Source:  Adapted from Southern Living Magazine Peppermint-Pretzel Bark
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
  • 1 (16 oz.) package vanilla candy coating (like almond bark coating, candy melts, or Candi-Quick)
  • 1/2 tsp. peppermint extract
  • 1/2 c. coarsely chopped pretzel sticks
  • 1/2 c. coarsely crushed peppermint candy canes
  • 1/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions
  1. Line cookie canvass or jelly scroll pan amongst waxed newspaper or parchment.
  2. Melt vanilla candy coating inwards the microwave, per bundle directions (typically inwards 30-second intervals, stirring after each interval until melted together with smooth). Stir inwards peppermint extract.
  3. Spread melted vanilla candy coating onto prepared pan until it's virtually 1/4-inch thick; don't worry virtually the cast ... you're going to interruption it into pieces subsequently anyway! Melt semi-sweet chocolate chips (about 45 seconds inwards the microwave or inwards a modest saucepan over medium-low heat); stir until smooth. Drizzle stripes over the still-warm vanilla candy coating. To marbelize, purpose a abrupt knife to describe lines through the vanilla candy coating perpendicular to the chocolate stripes.
  4. Sprinkle chopped pretzels together with candy cane pieces evenly over the top. Gently press into the coating. Chill inwards the fridge for virtually 10 minutes to set. Break into pieces.
Enjoy!

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