Dark Chocolate Peppermint Popcorn Bark

During my tween years, I discovered a new love, thanks to my paternal grandmother and my mom: making homemade chocolate candy. For several years, we made chocolate-covered peanut butter balls (a.k.a buckeyes), chocolate Santas, chocolate suckers and more. After a long candy-making hiatus, a little challenge from Funky Chunky plus a sample of their Peppermint popcorn led me to rediscover my old love and create this Dark Chocolate Peppermint Popcorn Bark. In the words of my daughter: “This just might be the best dessert ever.” I have to agree.

The combination of sweet and salty with dark chocolate, peppermint, chocolate drizzled popcorn and pretzels creates a habit-forming candy that has a low effort, high taste ratio! Make this for an upcoming party, a holiday gathering with family or any other occasion, and you will be the dessert hero! I PROMISE.

This Dark Chocolate Peppermint Popcorn Bark is incredibly easy to make:

• Melt dark chocolate wafers
• Line a jelly roll pan with parchment paper; coat that with canola oil (if you use a cookie sheet, which is larger, your bark will be thinner, unless you compensate by increasing your ingredient amounts some)
• Chill in the refrigerator for 2-3 minutes

• Top with mini pretzels broken into pieces

• Top with Funky Chunky peppermint popcorn (or something similar)
• Gently press down the popcorn and pretzels into the top of the chocolate

• Chill in the refrigerator until solid

• Break into pieces and ENJOY!

You can store in a ziploc baggie in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve/eat!

NOTE: 99 percent of my recipes are dairy-free, but this one isn’t. To make it dairy-free, you can use a dairy-free chocolate for the bottom layer (like Enjoy Life brand mega chunks) and make your own popcorn drizzled with chocolate in place of the Funky Chunky (which doesn’t have a lot of dairy in it, but definitely isn’t dairy-free).

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Dark Chocolate Peppermint Popcorn Bark

Be the dessert hero at your holiday party or family gathering with this really easy and amazingly delicious Dark Chocolate Peppermint Popcorn Bark!

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Dessert

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Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp canola oil
• 2 cups dark chocolate melting wafers or chips (like Ghiradella dark melting wafers or dairy-free Enjoy Life Mega Chunks)
• 2 cups mini pretzels broken into pieces until you have 1 cup (don't smash them into dust!)
• 2 cups Chunky Monkey peppermint bark popcorn (or similar popcorn mix)

Course Dessert Servings Ingredients 1 Tbsp canola oil 2 cups dark chocolate melting wafers or chips (like Ghiradella dark melting wafers or dairy-free Enjoy Life Mega Chunks) 2 cups mini pretzels broken into pieces until you have 1 cup (don't smash them into dust!) 2 cups Chunky Monkey peppermint bark popcorn (or similar popcorn mix)

Instructions

1. Melt the dark chocolate wafers
2. Line a jelly roll pan with parchment paper; coat the parchment paper with canola oil
3. Chill in the refrigerator for 2-3 minutes
4. Top with mini pretzels broken into pieces
5. Top with Funky Chunky peppermint popcorn
6. Gently press down the pretzels and popcorn into the top of the chocolate
7. Chill in the refrigerator until solid
8. Break into pieces and ENJOY!

Recipe Notes

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