Peppermint Bark Crackers
Welcome to Treat Week 2020!!! This week I will have a new recipe everyday to celebrate the start of the season and on the last day, I will show you how to make a platter or tin to give away to your people.
We love peppermint bark here in Casa de Campbell, I have made a version for years but it is a ton of work. It has a layers of white chocolate with crushed candy canes with a center of peppermint chocolate ganache. Very decadent and delicious, worth the work but I am burned out from all of that. I decided to make an easy no-cook or bake option with chocolate graham crackers as the base. I feel like everyone forgets about the chocolate graham cracker, you shouldn’t, they are delicious. Then I got candy melts (much easier to work with than chocolate) and the peppermint extract helps really seal the deal with that candy cane flavor.
This was tested with a bunch of neighbors, my family, and some ladies from our party planning group, and they were universally loved. These are perfect to make with kids, they can help dip and/or sprinkle with candy canes. Get your aggression out on those candy canes, I like to smash them in a bag with a meat mallet. And I am not giving options to make these any other way, because it’s the holidays and we all need some cheerful treats this year. Put these in a tin for the neighbors, on a platter for a party or straight out of the storage box when you need a festive hit.
Peppermint Bark Crackers
12 chocolate graham crackers, broken in half
1/2 package vanilla candy melts
1 teaspoon peppermint extract
6 candy canes, crushed
- Melt the candy melt by placing in a microwave safe bowl and microwave at 50% power, stir then add the peppermint extract, then another 30 seconds at 50% power, to completely melt. Stir vigorously to make it smooth.
- Dip the front of the cracker into the candy melt and place on a parchment or wax paper covered sheet. Sprinkle with the candy cane chunks. Continue until done.
- Chill in the fridge until hardened and serve.
No-bake and only 4 ingredients to make this holiday so easy.
Candy melts in a bowl, candy canes crushed, and crackers broken in half. Ready to party
Stir up that melted chocolate and make sure the extract is in there, it gives the perfect peppermint flavor.
Set up your assembly line, ready for action.
Dip your cracker and only get the front, the back doesn’t need it.
place on the parchment paper
and sprinkle with candy canes. And that’s it, just continue with the rest! Then chill so it hardens and munch away!
