Trick or treat? Welcome to October’s SRC and Group C’s posting day!
There was no trick to find a sweet treat at Hugs & CookiesXOXO. This blog is chock full of fun and delicious offerings. It was the perfect SRC assignment for October.
Do you want to know a secret about my Secret Recipe Club post this month? I’ve had Danielle’s blog before. Back in August of 2011, I made Danielle’s White Chocolate Oreo Brownies. (That was only my second SRC post.) These were such a hit at home, work, and online. Until very recently, they were my most popular post. This time around, I challenged myself to find a Halloween treat.
I decided to make Danielle’s Halloween Bark. I had made a similar recipe and posted it without photos in October 2010 and had been meaning to make it again and post with some pics. Danielle’s site spurred me on.
Her recipe was created to use up leftover Halloween candy. I love peanut butter so I took direction from Bon Appetit.
2 10 oz. bags bittersweet chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli 60% cacao bittersweet chocolate chips.)
3 2.1-ounce (or about 20 bite-size pieces) Butterfinger candy bars, cut into irregular 1-inch pieces
3 1.4-ounce (or 11 minaitures) Heath toffee candy bars, cut into irregular 3/4-inch pieces
8 0.55-ounce (or about 34 minis) peanut butter cups, each cut into 8 wedges
1/4 cup honey-roasted peanuts
3 oz. high-quality white chocolate (such as Lindt or Perugina), chopped
1/4 c. Reese’s Pieces
1 T. Fall-colored sprinkles (“Because,” to quote Danielle, “sprinkles make you smile.”)
Using the bite-size and minis makes this a little easier.
Line baking sheet with foil. Stir chocolate chips in heavy medium saucepan over low heat until melted and warm (not hot) to touch. Pour chocolate onto foil; spread to 1/4-inch thickness (about 12×10-inch rectangle).
Have everything pre-chopped and measured.
Sprinkle with Butterfinger candy, toffee, peanut butter cups, and nuts, making sure all pieces touch melted chocolate to adhere.
Put white chocolate in heavy small saucepan. Stir constantly over very low heat until chocolate is melted and warm (not hot) to touch. Remove from heat. Dip spoon into chocolate; wave from side to side over bark, creating zigzag lines. Scatter Reese’s Pieces and M&M’s over, making sure candy touches melted chocolate.
Dust with sprinkles.
My white chocolate mostly “dolloped” instead of drizzled.
Chill bark until firm, 30 minutes. Slide foil with candy onto work surface; peel off foil. Cut bark into irregular pieces.
Trick or Treat Halloween Bark from Eliot’s Eats
Obviously, this recipe is super versatile. Don’t like peanuts and peanut butter? Use candy corn (or whatever is left after the goblins raid the candy dish.) This could also be made for Thanksgiving. For Christmas, use red and green colored M&Ms and Andes mints. For Valentine’s day, use red M&Ms and candy hearts. For Easter, use malted eggs and pastel M&Ms. Let your imagination run wild.
A witch’s offerings.
Check out Danielle’s site if you ever need anything sweet, festive, and delicious.
This recipe makes a ton! Here’s a Halloween secret: I bought this witch because it looks like a “married-in” relative. I am awful.
Thanks to our SRC hosts Jane, Sarah, Suzanne, and the fabulous Group C host, Debbi. They do a super fantastic job keeping us all organized, informed, and on track! Thank you, ladies!
For all my past SRC posts (including the ever-popular White Chocolate Oreo Brownies), click here.
Wowee! That’s a sugar high I would love to go on – look really easy too. Great for those who either don’t cook or on a day you have to make something and don’t have time!
It is really easy. I would really say that one does need a high quality white chocolate. I used Nestles white chocolate chips and I think that is why I had more lumps than drizzles.
Oh, My Goodness. This makes raiding the Kids candy so worth it. If I had kids now. Guess I will just go BUY some so I can make this. Thanks — I think!!
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So I don’t really eat candy and there is a lot of candies I don’t like but for some reason this is super appealing to me…good thing Halloween is over so I”m not tempted to make it!
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37 responses to “Trick or Treat Halloween Bark”
Wowee! That’s a sugar high I would love to go on – look really easy too. Great for those who either don’t cook or on a day you have to make something and don’t have time!
It is really easy. I would really say that one does need a high quality white chocolate. I used Nestles white chocolate chips and I think that is why I had more lumps than drizzles.
Wow! That is a lot of deliciousness in that bark. Holy smokes. I want to eat it right now for breakfast!
Thanks, Erin. I don’t know if I would advocate this as a breakfast replacement! 🙂
Love the candy mix in there! What a great treat!
Definitely a treat than a trick! It is a trick to how easy this is to make, though.
I went into a sugar coma just looking at the pictures! Looks delicious!
Yep, you have to be careful with this stuff. Could have called it Trick or Treat Chocolate Crack! 🙂
It looks yummy! That is a ton of goodness in a bite!
Thanks, Jamie. You can almost get all the different kinds of candy in one bite!
I am totally making this to snack on while I hand out candy to the trick or treaters 🙂
I would highly recommend doing just that. I made just one batch of this sweet stuff and took about half of it to the godchildren. We still have a ton.
Outstanding! You definitely had a winning site to get twice and you picked the perfect second recipe.
Thanks, Christianne. Just lucky, I guess!
I really love this Eliot, look really yumm! love this récipe!
Thanks, Gloria. That apple gallette looked divine!
OOOH!! U GOT ME AGAIN LOL!!!!! THIS LOOKS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
It was my pleasure. This will be, I’m sure, another very popular post! Thanks, Danielle!
Lucky you, getting Danielle’s blog twice! Hers is perfect this time of year…and now I want to make this Halloween bark!
I just love it! I was lucky!
What a great halloween treat! Glad to be part of SRC group C with you!
Thanks, Lisa.
The wife says…send the bark and the cute little witch over…stat!
LOL! It might be cool enough down there for me to out it in the mail. Not meltidge!
THIS IS WILD!!!! What a bark! To heck with the trick or treaters, I’m making this for me. 🙂
We are of like minds.
Yum, looks delicious. I love taking candy and making a dessert with it
I may be swapping out candy with the trick or treaters so I can make this again. 🙂
It’s kinda fun to get to have somebody twice!! Great seasonal recipe 🙂
Happy SRC reveal fellow Group C SRC’er!
It was fun! I highly recommend it!
Oh, My Goodness. This makes raiding the Kids candy so worth it. If I had kids now. Guess I will just go BUY some so I can make this. Thanks — I think!!
Raid away!
Oh wow!!! I need this now!
Wish I could send you some leftovers so I could GET IT OUT OF THE HOUSE! (I am eating way too much of this stuff.)
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So I don’t really eat candy and there is a lot of candies I don’t like but for some reason this is super appealing to me…good thing Halloween is over so I”m not tempted to make it!
I am pretty much off candy now. I always seem to have no self control.