A delicious treat or food gift, this chocolate bark is loaded with nuts, honey, and cherries. Sure to please and a great guilt free snack - yes, please!
Note: Although I mention Valrhona chocolate in this post, I was not compensated by this brand. All opinions are my own.
This was my first time making chocolate bark. I've seen recipes here and there, but never was interested enough to attempt it. Somehow the combination of chocolate and cherries sparked my interest. In fact, this bark has many of my favorite snacks all under one roof. The combination of sweet and salty has always been one of my favorites.
The chocolate I used was Valrhona. I'd always heard that this was some good chocolate, and indeed, it was! Many years ago, I used to work with someone who had gone to culinary school and he loved to bake. He would always use Valrhona chocolate, but I had difficulty finding it. Fortunately, I spied some in my local Trader Joe's this week. If you can't find Valrhona, any of your favorite dark chocolate will do just fine.
I think this bark makes a great gift for the holidays and is nice to keep on hand for company. Of course, it's also good to keep all for yourself if you want. I promise, I won't tell:)
If you don't have much experience melting chocolate, see this video
📖 Recipe
Dark Chocolate Bark with Nuts and Dried Cherries
Ingredients
- 7.5 ounces dark chocolate (I used 85%)
- 2 tablespoons honey
- ½ cup mixed nuts chopped (I used almonds, cashews and pistachio mix)
- ½ cup dried cherries chopped
- ½ teaspoon salt (if nuts are unsalted)
Instructions
- Melt chocolate in microwave using a medium sized microwave-safe bowl; heat in 1-minute increments, stirring very well after each minute until melted (stirring will help the chocolate melt)
- If you have not melted chocolate before, see link in my post about melting chocolate since overheating will cause the chocolate to seize up and be ruined
- When the chocolate has melted, add the remaining ingredients and stir well to incorporate.
- Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper or tin foil and spread chocolate mixture (about ¼ inch thick) on top.
- Place in freezer for about 1 hour
- Break apart and enjoy! To store, follow directions on chocolate wrapper.
French Cooking for Dummies says
Wow I'm drooling... This looks amazing, can't wait to try it at home 😉
Rachel @ Bakerita says
This looks like a wonderful combination for chocolate bark! I love all of the things in it, and I have a bag of dried cherries just waiting to be used. Pinned!
Marie says
gotta love when you already have the ingredients on hand:)
Pam Helm says
This does not pour into a sheet pan. I made a batch and a half and still didn't fill a 15x10" pan. As soon as you add the honey it starts to solidify and can't hardly get the cherries and nuts mixed in. Any suggestions????
Pam
Marie says
It sounds like you may have overheated your chocolate and it seized: see here
If you try again, do not heat until totally melted; heat until about halfway melted or less and stir, stir, stir to get the rest melted. that always does the trick for me