Twinkle's Kitchen | Perfect Peppermint Bark

Candy-making season doesn’t have to overwhelm you. If you want to make just one, perfectly pretty candy for that holiday party or to give as presents, pick Peppermint Bark.

This simple, three-ingredient sweet is a great afternoon project, fun for the kids and can add that extra bling to your holiday spread.

Peppermint Bark

• 2 cups dark chocolate, chopped finely, or chocolate chips
• 2 cups white chocolate, chopped finely, or white chocolate chips
• 2 cups Starlight Mints or 15 candy canes

Prepare your candy first. Unwrap and place inside a plastic storage bag and bang with a rolling pin or a hammer until all the candy is crushed into small fragments.

Prepare a baking sheet with parchment and set aside.

Temper your chocolate, one at a time.

Follow the instructions on the back of the packaging, but usually you can microwave at 15-second intervals until you get the right consistency.

Pour the first layer of chocolate onto the sheet pan and smooth out evenly. Let cool and harden, or you can stick in the fridge for about 10 minutes to harden.

Repeat the process with the white chocolate.

Before you harden the top layer, sprinkle the crushed peppermint over it evenly; pressing gently to make sure the candy will set into the white chocolate when cooling.

Let harden completely – about 30 minutes.

Cut into 2x2 inch pieces or use cookie cutters for holiday shapes.

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Twinkle VanWinkle was born in a small town in Mississippi. A life-long lover of music, media and food, she grew up following those three things along her path. She has almost 20 years of professional cooking under her apron strings, feeding thousands of friends, family and other folks while working in restaurants and bakeries in Oxford, Miss. She baked 300 apple pies for the “Oprah Winfrey Show” and appeared on “The Best Of...” in the same year. Along with producing dynamic entertainment content for LIN Media, she is a mother, musician and social media fanatic.

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