I know long name, but trying to be creative a 1:30AM is not working out too well – but at least the bark did.
Full disclosure: This one won’t ship as well as the other bark recipes, but trust me when I say it will be well received! It’s hard to go wrong with whiskey, caramel, marshmallow and bacon! Isn’t bacon like the great enhancer? Yes, I think so.
Continue reading Holiday Bark Series: Whiskey Marshmallow and Caramel Bacon Bark
For this week’s gift giving idea I turned a Girl Scout cookie into a 20 minute bark recipe.
I’ve taken the shortbread base of a Samoas cookie-chopped it up and enveloped it in a burnt caramel sauce. Staying in line with the cookie, I wanted to make sure the coconut came through as the dominating flavor, so I layered the top of the bark with a heavy sprinkling of toasted coconut . To finish like the cookie I drizzled chocolate on top, but also added a caramel drizzle to it as well.
My four letter happy word I want to share with you today is: bark. Starting from the bottom you’ll find a dark chocolate layer kicked up with a bit of cherry extract and then for a more teeth grabbing bit of black forest authenticity, I added Kirsch soaked dried cherries. Providing a textural interruption between the black and pink chocolate layers are chocolate wafers. Pink? Yes, pink. That’s white chocolate lightly dyed for some whimsy and decorated for a final touch.
So this is going to be short.
Continue reading Holiday Bark Series: Black Forest Bark
