Halloween Bark

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This Halloween Bark is a super easy and yummy treat, and easy to make with all kinds of Halloween candy. Kids love to help with this recipe!

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  1. Ingredients for Halloween Candy Bark
  2. What Chocolate is Best to Use?
  3. Tips on How to Melt Chocolate Perfectly
  4. Substitution and Add-Ins for Halloween Bark
  5. Frequently Asked Questions
  6. More Fun Halloween Treats
  7. How to Make Halloween Bark
  8. Halloween Bark Recipe

This Halloween Chocolate Bark recipe is such a fun way for kids to help out in the kitchen. Grab their favorite Halloween sprinkles, chocolate bars and other candies and make a treat that everyone will love to snack on throughout the holiday season. This is a really decorative treat for Halloween parties, just break it up and place the serving size pieces out in a dish or on a tray. Your little monsters will love it!

Ingredients for Halloween Candy Bark

For this Candy Bark recipe I kept it pretty simple with chocolate, candy corn, and pretzel sticks. But you can really chop up any type of candy bar or use any type of candy you want on this. There is no right or wrong candy combination. Simply add the chocolate chips into the microwave and melt your chocolate. The melted chocolate will lay flat on parchment paper to sprinkle the toppings on.

  • Chocolate chips – Any kind will work! You can also use chocolate candy melts too.
  • Pretzels – The salty sticks are perfect for this. Cut them or keep them long to add to the chocolate.
  • M&M’s or Reese’s Pieces – Add some chocolate and extra crunch to the bark.
  • Candy corn – Always a favorite Halloween candy!
Ingredients for Halloween Candy Bark, including white chocolate melts, pretzels, candy corn, m&m's butterfingers, reese's pieces, and chocolate chips.


What Chocolate is Best to Use?

Chocolate chips work great for this recipe, but you can use white chocolate bark or chocolate almond bark, or any of your favorite chocolate bars. Just chop the chocolate up into bite-size pieces before melting it. I would recommend this for if you were making this Halloween bark for a nicer party for adults.

If you don’t love white chocolate, you can easily substitute the white chocolate for milk or dark chocolate. Or if you want to do two different kinds of chocolate you can do that too, just use different flavors for each layer, or swirl it around for a decorative design. You can see in the picture, there is a layer of candy in the chocolate layers, then more candy sprinkled on top.

Tips on How to Melt Chocolate Perfectly

Melting chocolate takes a bit of time but yet, it is so easy! There are a two ways to melt chocolate for this bark recipe. Using the microwave or the stove will create the perfect chocolate every time!

  • The stovetop is easy to use. Place the chocolate to a small saucepan. If you have a double boiler that will work too! Set over medium low heat and slowly stir the chocolate chips together. The chocolate will be melted and smooth, remove from heat and continue to stir together.
  • Place the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and heat them up in 30 second intervals. Stir the chocolate chips each time. Continue to stir until smooth and creamy.
  • When the chocolate is almost melted, remove and stir. There will be a few lumps in the chocolate to help keep the chocolate from burning. This will stop the chocolate from melting and will harden. Unfortunately, this cannot be reversed.
A plate filled with pieces of halloween candy bark, containing candy corn, pretzels, m&m's, reese's pieces, and butterfingers.

Substitution and Add-Ins for Halloween Bark

You can use any Halloween-themed candy for these fun treats. It’s also a perfect way to use up all that leftover Halloween candy from spooky season. Candy eyeballs, gummy worms, and candy pumpkins are perfect Halloween candy.

  • Nuts – Almonds, peanuts, or other chopped nuts add a salty crunch.
  • Candy – Reese’s peanut butter cups, bite size pieces cut up, and milky ways are always a favorite!
  • Chocolate – Bittersweet chocolate, milk chocolate, and even white chocolate are perfect for this Halloween bark recipe.
  • Crackers and chips – Add some extra crunch and fun with graham crackers, Oreo cookies, or potato chips.

“This recipe is so fun and festive, best of all it was incredibly easy to make!”

-Whitney

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is it called candy bark?

Candy bark is melted chocolate on a baking sheet or pan that is cooled. Once cooled, the bark will be broken into pieces that resemble the craggy surface of a tree.

Do you need to temper chocolate for bark?

For this recipe, you do not need to require tempering the chocolate.

What chocolate needs to be tempered?

You can temper most chocolates like semisweet, milk chocolate, or white chocolate. You should handle each chocolate flavor carefully depending on the temperature.

Can Halloween candy be frozen?

The great thing about candy is that it can freeze very well. Frozen candy will last about one year and still hold the flavor. Freeze it on a baking sheet, then transfer to a freezer-safe bag.

Can Halloween candy go bad?

Yes, just like most other food products, candy will expire. It does last longer being frozen in the fridge.

Read More: 25+ Halloween Dinner Ideas

More Fun Halloween Treats

If you are looking for some other fun Halloween treats that are great for parties or your family during the Halloween season, you are in luck! We have some yummy treats not to mention our candy bark is perfect to add to a Halloween Charcuterie.

How to Make Halloween Bark

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Halloween Bark

5 from 6 votes
This Halloween Bark is a super easy and yummy treat! This is really fun to make with your kids. You can melt the chocolate and let them sprinkle on their favorite candies.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Resting time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 15

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Ingredients

  • 24 ounces chocolate chips about 2 packages – any flavor
  • 1 cup pretzels
  • 1/2 cup fall colored M&M’s or Reese’s Pieces
  • 1/2 cup candy corn
  • 1/2 cup candy bars or any kind of candy you want!

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with wax paper or baking paper. Pour out the first bag of chocolate chips so that they are close together but not stacked on top of each other.
    White chocolate candy melts spread across parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
  • Put the cookie sheet in the oven, and watch closely. When chocolate chips begin to look shiny and just starting to melt, pull tray out and smooth the chocolate out with a spatula.
    Melted white chocolate spread across parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
  • Sprinkle on half of your candies then layer on the second bag of chocolate chips. Put in the oven again and when the second layer of chocolate chips begin to look shiny and a little melty, remove, smooth out chocolate, and sprinkle on more candy.
    A layer of melted white chocolate beginning to cool on parchment paper on a cookie sheet. It is topped with different candies, including, candy corn, pretzels, m&m's, reese's pieces, and butterfingers.
  • Let the bark sit out at room temperature until completely hardened. Break the bark into serving size pieces and place onto a serving plate or bowl.
    A side view of a plate filled with halloween candy bark.

Notes

Tips on Melting Chocolate
  • The stovetop is easy to use. Place the chocolate to a small saucepan. If you have a double boiler that will work too! Set over medium low heat and slowly stir the chocolate chips together. The chocolate will be melted and smooth, remove from heat and continue to stir together.
  • Place the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and heat them up in 30 second intervals. Stir the chocolate chips each time. Continue to stir until smooth and creamy.
  • When the chocolate is almost melted, remove and stir. There will be a few lumps in the chocolate to help keep the chocolate from burning. This will stop the chocolate from melting and will harden. Unfortunately, this cannot be reversed.

Nutrition Information

Calories: 339kcalCarbohydrates: 48gProtein: 4gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 8mgSodium: 120mgPotassium: 49mgFiber: 2gSugar: 39gVitamin A: 117IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 66mgIron: 2mg

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Emily Walker

Emily lives in Meridian, Idaho, with her husband, Beau, a physician assistant, and her three incredible children: a son and two daughters. Travel is one of her favorite ways to experience new cultures and cuisines, and she has a love for all things Disney.

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