Easy Homemade Chocolate Nut Bark
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This dark chocolate nut bark recipe is easy to make (3 ingredients), versatile, and fits the bill when the average chocolate bar just won't give you what you want.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 8
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: International
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 12 ounces of 70% dark chocolate, chopped (milk chocolate also works)
- ¾ cup mixed nuts (almonds, pistachios, cashews, pecans, walnuts, etc...), chopped
- salt - kosher salt preferred
Instructions
- Line a 9 x 13 baking sheet with parchment paper.
Melt dark chocolate:
- Fill a pot with 2" of water and bring to a simmer.
- Place a steel bowl on top (use a double boiler if you've got one).
- Add uniformly chopped pieces of chocolate or chocolate chips to the pot and stir with rubber spatula at low heat (barely simmerling). You are trying to melt the chocolate and not burn it. You don't want the boiling water to touch the second pot that's sitting on top of it or it will curdle. Keep stirring at a low heat until it's melted ~ 2 minutes.
- Don't let any water get in contact with the chocolate or it will become unworkable.
- Melt slowly over low heat while stirring gently (if the heat is too high it will become lumpy)
- Pour chocolate into lined pan, sheet pan, or baking dish and lightly shake the pan (or use a spatula) to make the chocolate an even thickness.
- Add nuts and sprinkle salt over the top.
- Let cool at room temperature or place in refrigerator for 1 hour before breaking.
Notes
- You can also melt chocolate in a microwave by using a 50% power level or 1-3 minutes, watching & stirring constantly.
- You can also put whole nuts or chopped nuts down first on the lined baking sheet and then pour and level out the chocolate on top of the nuts.
- Kosher salt has larger crystals that are easy to spread and is also less dense than regular salt so it's unlikely to oversalt.
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