Easy Christmas Bark

Easy Christmas Bark is an oh so pretty and easy to make dessert with sweet and salty flavors in Christmas colors; ready in a little over an hour!

Easy Christmas Bark is so quick and easy to make! Bark is one of my favorite desserts to make because it is so easy. You simply melt some chocolate, spread it out, sprinkle on some goodies, let them cool and break them into bite sized pieces. Wa-la; bark! And the kids can do much of the process! They love to be involved in the making.

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More bark recipes for other holidays!

Check out my St. Patrick’s Day Bark, Valentine’s Day Bark, and Easter Bunny Bark! It is so pretty with Easter and spring colors. You will also love Patriotic Bark with fun red, white and blue colors, Christmas Bark and Fall Halloween Bark in cool, fall colors!

The M&M’s

I haven’t found where you can buy just red and green M&M’s so I just buy a big bag and pick out what I want. It will worked out fine because just a few weeks ago, I used the fall colors for the Fall Halloween bark and the family will happily eat what is left. 😊

The Sprinkles:

Use whatever Christmas sprinkles you find. These are the ones I used.

If you need any of the ingredients, they are easy to find on Amazon.

The Bark:

When melting the bark, don’t go by looking at it whether it is melted or not. It will usually keep its block shape until you start stirring so it can be deceiving. It may be very hot and pretty much melted but still look like blocks. Stir after 60 seconds and then after 30 seconds and then after 15 seconds and then just stir and stir and it will probably be enough. You don’t want it too hot. If you put colorful M&M’s on chocolate that is too hot, your colors will run. Also, when sprinkling your other ingredients onto the bark, it is good to do the bigger things first and smaller things like sprinkles last so they will fill in the gaps. Gently press the pieces down into the bark so they are in it well. If they are not, they will fall out and you will have more like a trail mix; still good but not what we are going for here.

Can Easy Christmas Bark be made ahead?

Yes! Bark is the perfect make ahead dessert! It will wait patiently in the refrigerator or even freezer. Just store it in an air tight container and keep refrigerated up to a week or frozen up to 3 months for best taste. It will last longer but may not taste its best if left longer.

Ingredients:

vanilla almond bark

broken pretzels

red and green M&M’s

Christmas sprinkles

Directions:

Melt bark in microwave for 60 seconds.

Stir

Melt another 30 seconds.

Stir, stir, stir!

The bark should be smooth after much stirring. If it isn’t, microwave another 15 seconds or so but don’t cook it too much. It can burn. With a lot of stirring, it should be smooth.

Alternately, you can melt it over a double boiler on the stove top.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Next, pour melted bark onto baking sheet.

Sprinkle pretzels and M&M’s over bark and press gently into bark so the pieces will stay.

Last, sprinkle the sprinkles into the remaining gaps of empty bark space.

Chill in refrigerator about an hour or until set.

Break into bite sized pieces.

Store in an airtight container in a cool place.

It can also be frozen.

12 servings

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Easy Christmas Bark

Yield: 12 servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 1 minute

Additional Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour 11 minutes

Easy Christmas Bark; An oh so pretty and easy to make dessert with sweet and salty flavors in Christmas colors; ready in a little over an hour!

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Ingredients

• 24 oz. vanilla almond bark
• 1 cup broken pretzels
• ½ cup red and green M&M’s
• 2 Tbsp Christmas sprinkles

Instructions

Melt bark in microwave for 60 seconds.

Stir

Melt another 30 seconds.

Stir, stir, stir!

The bark should be smooth after much stirring. If it isn’t, microwave another 15 seconds or so but don’t cook it too much. It can burn. With a lot of stirring, it should be smooth.

Alternately, you can melt it over a double boiler on the stove top.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Next, pour melted bark onto baking sheet.

Sprinkle pretzels and M&M’s over bark and press gently into bark so the pieces will stay.

Last, sprinkle the sprinkles into the remaining gaps of empty bark space.

Chill in refrigerator about an hour or until set.

Break into bite sized pieces.

Store in an airtight container in a cool place.

It can also be frozen.

12 servings

Cindy

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