Dark Chocolate & Almond Bark
Posted: April 22, 2012 Filed under: Recipes | Tags: bake, brownie, chocolate, dessert, food, photography 5 Comments »I am a chocolate fiend. That should be no secret considering the dessert section of this blog is exclusively a list of chocolate recipes. One of my favorite chocolate treats is ‘bark’, which, if I didn’t know any better, was named after a doggy treat. I’m not sure what it is about bark that makes it a completely different experience than any other piece of chocolate. Maybe it’s the irregularly shaped chunks that it comes in. It feels imperfectly natural…as if it was a natural food.
The creation of chocolate bark isn’t a recipe as much as it is a reformation of a perfectly shaped piece of chocolate. The process is simple: melt chocolate, add toppings (almonds in this case), re-harden in the fridge and break apart with your hands! It may seem elementary, but the process leads to such a better experience that it makes it totally worthwhile.
Recipe
Serving Size (10-15 pieces)
Estimated time: 1 hour (15 minutes cooking, 45 minutes cooling)
Ingredients:
- 12 oz your favorite dark chocolate
- 1/4 cup almonds (sliced, whole or chopped…your choice)
What You’ll Need:
- small, shallow baking pan
- heatproof bowl
- small pot
- parchment paper
Directions:
- pour 1″ of water in a pot and bring to a simmer. lower heat to low and create a double broiler (by placing bowl on top of the pot)
- break chocolate into smaller pieces and melt in the bowl
- once melted, add almonds to the chocolate and stir
- line baking sheet with parchment paper
- pour melted chocolate into lined baking pan
- place into the fridge for 2 hours or freezer for 1 hour
- once fully solid, break sheet of chocolate into smaller pieces and serve (break pieces using your hands, but covered in parchment paper to avoid melting)
Yum! (And I just finished eating chocolate-walnut fudge, too!).
Great photo, too!
I can not wait to eat this, can not wait. Or make it. I’ll have to find an excuse to make someone something.
Me too, I keep snacking on the stuff – at least it’s scientifically suspected to aid weight loss… I think this looks delicious. I’ve never made a bark myself, but perhaps I shall!
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Dark chocolates and milk chocolates are the best. .
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