Chocolate Bark – A Quick, Easy Christmas Recipe
The majority of Christmas revolves around spending time together eating, that’s what’s so great about it! Homemade food can also work as a thoughtful gift to give at this festive time of year. Here’s a super easy, but delicious, Christmas chocolate recipe. It’s name is Christmas bark as it resembles the bark that you see on a tree. It’s a basic recipe which can be interpreted in as many different ways as you want.
Ingredients:
- 200g dark chocolate
- 100g white chocolate
- Sea salt flakes
- Nuts / dried fruit of your choice for the topping
Method:
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- Prepare by covering a large baking tray with baking paper.
- Melt the dark chocolate and the white chocolate separately. To do this put the dark chocolate in a glass bowl above a pan of boiling water, and do the same with the white chocolate. Keep stirring both the bowls of chocolate until the chocolate turns to liquid.
- Pour the dark chocolate all over the baking paper in the baking tray. Then drizzle the white chocolate over the top of the dark chocolate and drag a fork over it to create a marbled pattern.
- Scatter your nuts, fruit, and a little sea salt all over the top of the chocolate, so that it rests on top.
- Leave in the fridge or somewhere cool to set and become solid chocolate again.
- When it is solid and hard you can break the chocolate back into pieces. Keep it in a box or a bag and give to friends. It will last for two weeks.
Have a very happy Christmas, New Year and Three Kings from everyone at GNP!
Vocabulario de interés
(noun) bark: the outer layer on a tree
(verb) to melt: to turn from solid to liquid
(adjective) boiling: at 100 degrees, so water bubbles
(verb) to stir: to move round and round
(verb) to drizzle: to let a little liquid fall slowly
(verb) to drag: to move slowly across
(verb) to scatter: to let things fall with no order
(verb) to last: to continue to be ok