Chocolate Bark Recipe

This chocolate bark recipe is a firm favourite to create your own unique sweet tooth sensation.

The texture provides a crunch with the additional and optional upgrades or variations you can me to this recipe.

Healthy Chocolate Bark

Yes - there is such a thing - chocolate and healthy in the same recipe title. Most attribute or believe that chocolate is a sugar bomb for kids. The truth is chocolate has great health properties. One of the highest sources of PQQ (Pyrroloquinoline quinone) is a potent redox antioxidant.

The trick here is using dark or high-quality cacao, ideally organic too which contains the most bioflavonoids. What else makes this dark chocolate bark recipe healthy is the additional bonus ingredients that give it the color, crunch, and taste profile

How To Make Chocolate Bark

Our dark chocolate bark recipe requires 2 main stages. The melting stage and then the freezing stage. In between these stages is the opportunity to add your extras.

It doesn’t take any time at all to create this party-in-the-mouth experience.

Additionally, a little goes a long way. The 100% cacao powder and butter is a great way satiety signal whilst hopefully reducing the tendency to snack or consume questionable pseudo food.

Chocolate Bark Recipe

Keep in mind that if you like a milder chocolate flavor, you can lower the amount of cacao powder.

You can also adjust the sweetness to taste with more honey. This chocolate bark recipe gives you a great base. Let your creativity go wild with different add-ins.

Feel free to add almonds, hazelnuts, cacao nibs, bee pollen, organic puffed rice, melt in some coconut butter, add more salt, the list is endless.

Homemade Chocolate Bark Recipe

Serves: 15 servings
Active prep time: 15 minutes approx
Set in the fridge: 120 minutes 
Skill level: Easy

Chocolate Bark Ingredients

• 1 cup cacao butter (about 140 g / 5 oz - will vary whether using disks or chunks)

• ⅔ cup cacao powder 

• 1 TB raw, local honey + more for optional drizzle

• ¼ tsp vanilla bean powder or extract

  Add-ins 

• ⅓ cup coconut shreds 

• ¼ cup dried mulberries 

• ¼ cup dried goji berries

• ¼ cup pistachios

• More honey for drizzle 

• Flakey Icelandic or sea salt to sprinkle 
  
  

Chocolate Bark Recipes:

1. In a small saucepan over low heat, melt cacao butter. Continue to stir to prevent burning, or use a water bath.

2. Once cacao butter is melted, take off of the heat and stir in cacao powder, honey, and vanilla. Stir until fully incorporated. 

3. Toss in all of your fun add-ins and combine.  Keeping 20% to use at the top.

4. Line a square or rectangular container or baking sheet with parchment paper and pour in the chocolate mixture.

5. A 7-inch x 9 inch (or 18 cm x 23 cm) container will yield a thicker bark (like you see in our photographs). A larger container, such as a cookie sheet, will yield a thinner bark - this is a preference thing! Thicker feels like a candy bar. Thinner feels like a typical chocolate bar.  

6. Optionally, add a drizzle of honey and sprinkle flakey salt on top to your liking. The honey drizzle will create a ribbon effect but is fully optional.

7. Place in the fridge for at least two hours. Take out and slice or break and enjoy! 

8. Store in the fridge in an airtight or glass container. The chocolate bark will last 3 weeks but will likely not last that long.

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Nutrition facts per serving (based on 15 servings)

Calories: 145.6
Protein: 2.2
Carbs: 7.2
Fat: 12
Fibre: 2.3
Vitamin B1: 0mg
Vitamin B2: 0mg
Vitamin B3: 0mg
Vitamin B5: 0mg
Vitamin B6: 0mg
Vitamin B9: 1.2ug
Vitamin B12: 0ug
Choline: 1.8mg
Vitamin A: 10.6IU
Retinol: 0ug
Vitamin C: 0.6mg
Vitamin D: 0IU
Vitamin E: 0.1mg
Vitamin K: 1.4ug
Calcium: 21.5mg
Copper: 0mg
Iron: 1mg
Magnesium: 32mg
Manganese: 0.1mg
Potassium: 139mg
Selenium: 0.5ug
Zinc: 0.1mg
Omega 3: 0g
Omega 6: 0.3g

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