Go on! Overload with chocolate for Valentine’s Day!
You don’t really need a recipe to make chocolate bark because it’s as straightforward as you would expect. Melt chocolate, pour it out, sprinkle with the toppings of your choice, leave to set and that’s it!
I decided to put some oreo biscuit in the base of mine for flavour and a nice crunchy texture. I used Love Hearts, mini Haribo hearts and some heart-shaped sugar sprinkles for the topping, but you can use your favourites.
Ingredients (these quantities make a lot of chocolate bark! The pictures below will give you an idea of just how much. You could halve these amounts if you want to make a small batch)
- 400 g / 14 oz milk chocolate (or plain or dark chocolate: choose your favourite)
- 400 g / 14 oz white chocolate
- Approx. 50 g / 2 oz pink strawberry chocolate (optional – for decoration. You could also dye white choc pink and add flavouring). I got my pink choc by buying pink chocolate mice in pick and mix and chopping them up!
- Approx. 10 oreos (the flavour of your choice)
- Haribo mini hearts, love hearts, sprinkles, whatever you like!
Method
Line a baking tray with greaseproof baking paper – stick it to the tray using a little butter/margarine.
Roughly crush your oreos/other biscuits of your choice and lay them, filling side up, on your tray. I used mint oreos and strawberry oreos. In this pictures the strawberry oreos are on the left and mint on the right. I placed my oreo pieces close together but you could leave bigger gaps if you only want the odd piece in your chocolate bark.
Break your milk chocolate into pieces. Put in a heatproof bowl and melt. You can do this by putting your bowl over a pan of heated water or use the microwave. If you use the microwave, go gently. Zap the chocolate for a minute first. Take the bowl out and stir the chocolate. Put it back in for another 30 seconds. This will usually be enough. You can use the heat of the chocolate which has already melted to melt the rest. Zap again for another few seconds if needs be.
Pour the milk chocolate over the oreo biscuit base. Use the back of a spoon or spatula to spread the chocolate evenly.
Put this first layer in the fridge to chill for ten minutes. Be careful not to leave it in there any longer or the chocolate will have completely set and may not bond with the white chocolate layer.
Melt your white chocolate. Pour over the milk chocolate layer and spread evenly.
If you want to include the strawberry pink chocolate swirl, melt the pink chocolate and drizzle over your white chocolate layer.
Drag a cocktail stick, skewer or knife tip through the pink lines to make patterns, like so:
Add sweets of your choice to decorate. I put mini Haribo hearts on the left to remind me which side had the strawberry oreos in it, and Love Hearts on the right.
Put your oreo chocolate bark in the fridge to set for about an hour. The finished product should look a bit like this:
Now all that’s left it to break the bark into pieces. I just used my hands and it snapped quite easily.
Here’s the strawberry oreo chocolate bark:
And my favourite, the mint oreo chocolate bark:
This is what the underside looks like – you can see the oreo layer.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Looking for some other Valentine’s recipes? Try these!
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
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Yummy!
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It’s lovely and dangerously moreish!! 🙂
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I am literally drooling here!
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🙂 Hope it’s not a 2 day!!
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Thankfully not!
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These look SOooo Good!
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Thank you!
I particularly like the mint oreo – I love mint and chocolate 🙂
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Scrummy …and easy. You make everything look so tempting and do-able.
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This one honestly is so easy. The only way it could possibly go wrong would be to heat the chocolate too quickly when trying to melt it. Other than that, plain sailing! 🙂
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This looks so yummy! I am tempted to make this. My daughter would think it was awesome. I bet it tastes as good as it looks!
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It’s delicious. And now that oreos come in all sorts of flavours you could do peanut butter or whatever her favourite is 🙂
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That’s true! Great idea!
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These look amazing, I’ve put on weight just reading this
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Haha! That is the only downside. Small bits at a time – definitely not a diet option!! 🙂
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That’s the thing with much of your food, do good and yet so bad… 🙂
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Brilliant. The hubs loves Oreos. 💕
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Mine too! I did think about trying the peanut butter oreos, but I’ve found them slightly addictive in the past and was worried I’d eat the whole slab of chocolate!! 🙂
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You’re killing me, Claire. 😜
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Wow wow wow. Looks yummy
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Thank you! The mint is definitely my favourite. That said, I don’t find it too hard to eat the strawberry stuff either 🙂
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I can’t think of anything you’ve ever cooked I’ve not wanted.
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Massive drooling here!!!
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Haha! I’ll be doing something lemony next as a sort of antidote to the chocolate overload!! 🙂
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Lemony is for me!!
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This looks amazing! I love your baked treats! X
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Thank you! It’s lovely, and I’m glad I bothered with the pink swirl as it turned out better than I’d expected 🙂
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This looks great! I kind of wish they would sell mint oreos here now. 😉
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I wasn’t sure they’d keep selling them here but it seems to be one of the special flavours which is sticking around. It’d taste great with the original flavour though. Or maybe there’s a local dulce de leche sandwich biscuit you could use…mmm… 🙂
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They do have the strawberry one here so that’s something… There are mint chocolate medals though that work really well as a replacement though when mixed with original oreos. 😉
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Looks so good Claire!
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It was delicious! The mint one was my favourite. I’d like to try it with peanut butter oreos too 🙂
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I love mint. Not much of a peanut butter fan, but let me know how it goes.
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Looks delicious and easy! I’ll try it our with my grandchildren!
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A perfect one to make with children – so easy and they’ll be delighted to sample the results!
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So will I! 😉😊
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Wow!!!!
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