Dark Chocolate Swirl Bark for your Valentine
Yesterday, we had a small Valentine’s Day get together. I know it’s not the love-day quite yet, but our schedule opened up to make it happen, so we did just that – made it happen. Valentine’s Day is as good as any excuse to celebrate the ones you love. I’m totally fine with that. I’m a big fan of love. We had a great afternoon, enjoying each other’s company, eating good food and staying out of the snow.
For the party, I made treat bags of dark chocolate swirl bark with cranberries and coconut. It’s an easy, delicious recipe to make; involving melting chocolate, swirling it around and topping it with some yummy additions. And there’s where you get creative! You can use pistachios, almond slivers, cacao nibs, raisins…just about anything you would like. I chose dried cranberries and unsweetened shredded coconut. The dark chocolate was very bitter (85%) so the sweetness came from the white chocolate that I used to create the swirl design.
I let the bark harden in the fridge overnight and cracked it in the morning. That’s one of my favourite parts about making bark – when I get to break it all up. After that small thrill, I filled up a few translucent favor bags and sealed them with these pretty ombre heart scalloped stickers (both from Minted). The finished treat bags were, in my opinion, super sweet. I’ll be sharing more party details with you later this week. Hope you had a fantastic weekend!
PrintDark Chocolate Swirl Bark with Cranberries and Coconut
Description
Treat your Valentine to the delectable combination of dark chocolate, tart cranberries, tropical coconut and sweet white chocolate. They’ll be yours forever!
Ingredients
- 8 ounces dark chocolate
- 6 ounces white chocolate
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Using two double boilers, melt the dark chocolate in one and the while chocolate in the other.
- If you don’t have a double boiler, you can use two glass bowls in a shallow pan of boiled water or the microwave ( I don’t have one, so I don’t know what length of time it would take to melt! Use caution!)
- Once the chocolate is melted, you can spread the dark chocolate onto thebaking sheet and smooth out into a large rectangle.
- Then, add the white chocolate by spoonfuls.
- Use the tip of a knife to swirl it around.
- Top it with cranberries and shredded coconut.
- Place in the fridge to cool overnight (or until the chocolate is hard and can be broken into pieces)
- Break up into pieces to serve or place in your favor bags.
Notes
- This recipe made enough to fill 4 treat bags, nicely (with about 3-4 large pieces of bark each). On a serving platter, it would serve 4-6 guests.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4
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These are so great. Nothing beats a great chocolate bark and I love the white chocolate swirl with coconut addition!! Pinned to try.
Thanks Zainab! I agree, chocolate bark is one of my favourite indulgences 😉 Thanks for the pin!
Wow! These are gorgeous. And so easy to make too. I might try it out!
Thank you Andrea 🙂 We love how easy it is to make & give to friends (who don’t mind receiving it!). Glad you stopped by.
Looks like such a delicious treat 🙂
Annie
The Other Side of Gray
Thank you Annie, if you like chocolate, you’ll like this 😉
Emily, this V-Day treat looks divine! Can’t wait to try it! 🙂
Thank you Lian! And thanks for visiting!
Looks so good! I really aught to try to make bark, it always tastes so good and is easy to make! Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Yup, this looks amazing!! I love easy recipes like this and even better it sounds like it tastes amazing.
Oh me too Alicia! Easy with great results…works for me!
This looks amazing!
Thank you!
This looks so delicious and easy to make. I have never baked any Bark before, and don’t know why. Just pinned it:)
Thanks for visiting Lyne! It’s a new thing around here too, but I’m loving how easy it is and what pretty, delicious results you get. Also, it’s great that you can pretty much make any variety. Thank you for the pin!
Sounds fantastic!! Well except for the coconut but I could leave that off. I love chocolate bark and the addition of cranberries, sounds perfect!
Thanks Lucy! Yes, if you don’t like coconut, you’ll have to omit and add just use dried cranberries or add in some other favourites, like roasted almonds, or pistachios! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
My kids would go crazy for this bark! My aunt has a nice one with nuts and Rice Krispies in it, but it would be great to taste the cranberries!
Oh, nice – I never thought of rice krispies but that would give it an airy crunch. Thanks for sharing the idea!
Omg. These sound perfect and look amazing. Also really simple! I have to try these. I may even do a test with some sea salt! Thanks for sharing this, SITStah!
I always wanted to try making this! Maybe I will for Valentines!
Great post!
xox,
ML aka @20YS
Thanks Marilou! It’s SUPER easy to make – and there are so many variations to try, which makes it fun to play with (and to use your fave ingredients!) Thanks for visiting 🙂
I love making barks. I like these a lot with the addition of the coconut.
Okay, I just found what I’m making my husband for Valentine’s Day! This looks delicious and easy and something the kids can help me with! Pinning it, too. Stopping by from SITS, nice to meet you!
Mmmm… looks very good. And easy too. Thanks… I have Pinned to try it!
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This looks great! stopping by from SITS girls
Thanks Ellen!
Ooh, I love the dark/white choc combination. I’ll definitely have to keep this handy for birthday and Christmas gifts. Yum!