Have some fun in the kitchen making this Triple Chocolate Bark. Â There is something for everyone in these chocolate bars. It can be topped with crushed mini eggs which will appeal to young and old alike, or if you fancy trying something a little more sophisticated, the Salted Rosemary Triple Chocolate Bark may be more up your street. Both are perfect to serve with after dinner coffees, or as a treat.
Judging by the amount of chocolate sold in the UK every year it’s safe to say we all love a bit of chocolate from time to time. Instead of buying one of the 80 million Easter eggs sold in the UK every year, what could be more fun than making your own chocolate bar or Easter egg? I was lucky enough to be invited to make my own Easter Egg at Melts in Notting Hill along with a few other bloggers. All thanks to the kind people behind Thermapen who sponsored the event. It is probably a bit late this year to start making Easter Eggs but you can still have some chocolaty fun with this really easy to make Triple Chocolate Bark.
Tempering Chocolate
Tempering chocolate is the process that ensures the chocolate sets properly, giving it a smooth and glossy appearance and a firm texture. Chocolate that has been simply melted and cooled may be lumpy, streaky, or prone to melting. It requires heating  and cooling the chocolate to set temperatures. It’s not difficult to temper chocolate as I explained  in more detail in my earlier post How to Temper Chocolate.
Thermometers
While it is not essential to use a thermometer to temper chocolate, it really does take the guess work out of the process, especially for beginners, and will ensure success time after time.  At the risk of repeating myself,  if you enjoy cooking then I would  recommend buying one. They are so useful in the kitchen not only in helping to ensure success when making sweets, confectionary, and jams but also when cooking meat and reheating foods. Digital thermometers are the easiest to use and most versatile.
Ever since I worked on De Agostini’s “Something Sweet” magazine I have used  a Thermapen thermometer, which I highly recommend. They are super accurate and very reliable.  I managed to get through several different thermometers in a short period of time before investing in a Thermapen.  (As you can imagine, I made a lot of sweets and confectionary during the 2½ or so years I worked on that project). The Thermapen was the only one that really worked consistently well for any length of time. What’s more it is still the one in daily use in my kitchen now, two years later.
Now  two lucky readers of Recipes Made Easy can win a Thermapen for themselves. I’m sure you will agree it’s a great Prize! Just scroll down to find out how.
These homemade chocolate bars are simple to make and look fantastic.
- 200 g plain (dark) chocolate
- 200 g milk chocolate
- 200 g white chocolate
- mini eggs, chopped
- rosemary and sea salt crystals
Line two baking sheets with baking parchment. Temper the plain, milk and white chocolate. Chop the mini eggs.
Pour half of the melted white chocolate in a line down the middle of the baking sheet. Repeat on the second baking sheet with the remaining white chocolate.
Now pour lines of plain chocolate down one side of the white chocolate and milk chocolate on the other side.
Gently tap the baking tray on the work surface so that the chocolate spreads and slightly flattens.
Using the blade of a dinner knife swirl the white chocolate into and out of the chocolate either side. You can also tease the sides of the chocolate out so that it forms a rough rectangle.
Sprinkle the chocolate with chopped mini eggs or a little bit of finely chopped fresh rosemary and seasalt crystals to complete. Allow to set before breaking into chunks to serve,
Nutrition data does not include toppings
Your Chance to Win a Thermapen
The SuperFast Thermapen digital thermometer is used by top chefs and chocolatiers. The Thermapen 4 includes a patented 360° self-rotating display that can be used in any position, in either hand. The unit incorporates an intelligent backlit display sensing light levels, automatically turning the backlight on/off in varying light conditions. The motion-sensing sleep mode automatically turns the unit on/off when set down or picked up, maximising battery life. The Thermapen case is waterproof and includes `Biomaster’ additive that reduces bacterial growth. The Thermapen is competitively priced from £48 each, and available in a variety of colours direct from Thermapen.
You have probably picked up that the above is an extract from the press release by the Thermapen people. By now you also know at I am not in the habit of recommending anything I do not like myself. Â Thermapen have offered me two Thermapen as prizes for my very first Give Away Competition on Recipes Made Easy. Given that it is a piece of equipment that I really love using I couldn’t be happier.
It’s Really Easy To Enter
Rafflecopter is a little piece of software that allows me to run a kind of raffle on Recipes Made Easy. For your chance to WIN  a Thermapen , enter for free. First scroll down to the comments section after the post and leave a comment letting me know which is your favourite type of chocolate. Then pop back up and fill in the little Rafflecopter widget below ticking to say that you have left a comment (it’s clever it can check). Don’t worry if your comment doesn’t appear immediately, it is being waiting to be approved which is a way of avoiding  the site getting a lot of spam comments. Your name and email address are obtained only for the purpose of contacting the winner and will not be stored or used for any other purpose after the competition ends.
It’s really easy to use and there are bonus chances to get extra entries by doing things such as following me on Twitter or visiting my Facebook page. You do not have to do any of these extra things but it will give you more chances to win!
When the competition closes, the little widget will randomly select a winner. I will then contact the winner via email to arrange for the prize to be sent to you from Thermapen.  Good luck!
Please note that the competition is open to entries from the UK only.
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The Small Print
- This giveaway is free to enter. There are two prizes and two winners who each will receive one Thermapen.
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- The  giveaway will close at midnight on 27th April.
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I love dark chocolate
Don’t like dark chocolate … but love milk [a bar of food old Galaxy is heaven] but throw some orange in there too and it’s all over for me!
Personally I don’t get the chocolate orange thing. But I’m with you on Galaxy:)
Dark – especially with a strong black coffee. A delicious treat!
Milk chocolate but not too sweet
I like milk chocolate best, dark is okay, but I don’t like white chocolate at all.
I love dark chocolate the best but I do love milk and White too
Milk chocolate is my favourite but I am not to fussy really and quite happily eat dark or white chocolate too
me too 🙂
I love all chocolate, but if I had to pick, then it would be milk. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
Your welcome- Good luck!
I love dark chocolate…. not TOO dark though!!
Milk (although I am on a bit of a white chocolate kick at the moment).
I’ve gone to the dark side, I’m afraid 😉
I’m slowly moving over to the darker side.
I love dark, I find I can’t stand the over-sweetness of any other chocolate
i just love chocolate full stop but i do particularly like a higher cocoa solid milk as it is less sweet
Definitely going to try this. I like dark chocolate the most.
Do let me know how you get on Im sure you will like it. What’s not to like:)
I love all chocolate, but white chocolate the best!
I can see why this recipe appeals to you with all three:)
Milk chocolate for me it’s my favourite
My husband loves dark chocolate but I much prefer milk.
White
Dark chocolate is my favourite even when I was a child.
I love all chocolate but love a good dark chocolate with dried raspberries in.
White chocolate is definitely my favourite but I’m trying to wean myself off sugar so would pick a good 85% dark chocolate instead!
My fave is dark chocolate, even better if it has a little chilli! I do like all choc though and your bark looks very tempting 🙂
White chocolate! Yum!
Milk chocolate has to be my fave, tho I am partial to a slice or two of white choc!!
I like dark chocolate, especially the ones you get with bits of dried raspberry or ginger. But sometimes I just need a good old bar of Cadburys dairy milk!
I prefer Galaxy to Cadburys I think its creamier
In a 50% cocoa solids kinda gal between milk and dark. Not that I’m fussy or per 😉
No one should be too fussy when it comes to Chocolate;) Good luck
Love dark chocolate
White chocolate
i prefer milk, but would happily eat all 3!
It has to be milk chocolate although I have become very fond of white lately – I really dislike dark chocolate!
I can’t choose – I would eat any or all types of chocolate!
Love milk x
I love a piece of dark chocolate!
I go through stages of preferring all three but if I only had one choice I’d opt for the dark as it has a fuller cocoa flavour.
Good choice
white xx
I love milk chocolate the best
I love milk chocolate the best
I do love white chocolate, so creamy!
I love Dark chocolate and as Real Chocolate is actually good for you its a bonus
I think a little bit of any chocolate is good for you its certainly good for your soul 😉
Defintely Dark chocolate lovers here!
it’s still mik for me but I am slowly moving more and more towards dark.
I love all chocolate, especially milk chocolate.
milk choc xx
Milk is my favourite.
DARK!!
I like all chocolate!
Milk is my favourite
White chocolate for me!
Milk chocolate is my favourite,
gotta be milk chocolate for me
Like them all but favourite has to be milk chocolate
I love both milk chocolate and white chocolate x
Chocolate so depends on your mood, which is influence by how tight my trousers are. A little dark or lots of milk? Perhaps a little bit of both
yep I get where your coming from
White
Milk chocolate
Love milk chocolate 🙂
Milk, although the older I get the more I appreciate dark chocolate
Milk but also milk with white combined!
oooh so hard, today I’m choosing white, tomorrow, it might be different!
I’m with you on that. I normally say milk but just at the moment I am enjoying eating the egg I made at Melts and that is a lovely rich dark chocolate. Eaten in small amount at a time its fabulous, so today its my favourite.
I love white chocolate.
LOVE the dark chocolate
I honestly like all three but prefer dark chocolate if I had to choose.
Dark chocolate is a family favourite at our house.
Milk chocolate for me.
I like milk chocolate but enjoy dark chocolate for a rare treat.
white
My favourite is milk chocolate closely followed by white chocolate.
I love dark chocolate – particularly 85% and it’s guilt free because of all those antioxidants it contains!
Ha ha Exactly!
Milk chocolate
I love milk chocolate 🙂
milk! especially galaxy mmm
I’m rather partial to Galaxy myself.
i just love milk x
I love milk chocolate the best.
Milk Chocolate is my favourite
Dark chocolate for me
Milk Chocolate
What a great way to combine art with chocolate, I love this new idea of making bark, it appeals to the inner artist in, me…the possibilities are endless.
They are indeed. You can have such fun. The toppings are almost limitless.
i really like the creaminess of milk chocolate
Got to be dark for me.
dark chocolate with ginger- yum!
Milk chocolate
Dark is my favourite
Dark ginger is my fave x thank you
my favorite is dark chocolate
milk chocolate
Milk
Milk or White! Yum!
My favourite type of chocolate is definitely dark.
Milk Chocolate when filling face on the sofa but have a serious thing for dark chocolate in desserts,the richer the better.Love your recipe x
Thank you Jenny. I know where your coming from. Milk chocolate is like pure comfort food. ark chocolate is more refined so I have to be in the mood. Funnily enough Im not absolutely crazy about chocolate desserts and cakes but when I do make them I tend to go for the richer the better approach.
Milk chocolate is my favourite!
I love milk chocolate x
Milk to eat & dark in cooking
Yep! Totally agree!
I love milk chocolate.
Dark chocolate definitely
Milk chocolate is my fsvourite
Milk chocolate
Definitely dark!! The darker the better usually. I’m an 85% type of girl. I find anything else way too sweet (I went sugar free for a good chunk of last year and now I find so many things I used to like much too sweet…which is a good thing!!) Thanks for linking up to #CookBlogShare 🙂 Eb x
Your so good I would find it hard to go sugar free. But I dont like things too sweet which is why I am coming round to dark chocolate. But milk is still my fav especially milk choc with a 30%+ or so cocoa solid
I love dark chocolate
I like them all especially dark chocolate with coffee but my absolute favourite is white
With coffee now your talking.Have you tried my coffee truffles?
I love white chocolate
Yummy white!
i love all of them!
milk please ( or white )
I’ll eat pretty much any chocolate, but my favourite is probably dark!
milk chocolate is my favourite with white chocolate a close second. my sister still argues with me that caramac is a type of chocolate… it’s not!!
No not a chocolate but i used to love caramac! Cat remember the last time i has it can you still buy it? I cant rememeber seeing it in a while.
Dark as its good for me x
White chocolate I reckon, although I like milk too
Definitely white chocolate for me. Will eat any but preference is white 🙂
i like dark and milk
the Darker the better for me! love all choccy but dark is my fav!
Milk chocolate for me!
I have to say i love white chocolate,tastes absolutely gorgeous
Dark.
I do prefer dark chocolate as its not too sweet
For the longest time white chocolate was my favourite. But as I have got older, I have started to like dark chocolate more.
Milk chocolate is my favourite …. although I am not fussy when it comes to chocolate.
I’m with you there.
Milk is my favourite.
75% Dark
Milk
milk chocolate- however I ration myself to one bar a week
That’s very restrained of you. How big is the bar though 🙂
I like all of them, but I particularly like dark chocolate at the moment.
Dark, the higher the cocoa content the better. Will quite happily munch on any chocolate though.
I prefer milk but definitely like a little bit of dark too.
milk chocolate 🙂
milk chocalate every time
me too
love all chocolate but dark is my favourite
It depends on how I’m feeling. I do mostly like dark but there are times when I prefer the sweetness of milk chocolate.
I’m more the other way round. I mostly like milk but occasionally prefer to have dark.
I find dark chocolate and little too bitter and white chocolate a little too sweet for my taste, so milk chocolate is my favourite, especially if it contains a little sea salt.
Agree but I tend to prefer salt on dark than milk
i love dark
Milk chocolate is my fave
I love all chocolate but my go to is normally milk chocolate 😀
with you there:)
I love milk chocolate and white chocolate but cant stand dark chocolate
Try some really good quality dark (in small amounts) it might just start to change your mind.
I love milk chocolates but dark chocolate is better for you 🙂
I like to think a little bit of any chocolate is good for you!
I have to have dairy free chocolate but I like the ‘milky’ ones best.
That sounds like bad luck or does it taste just as good?
Milk chocolate, with nuts. Yummy! This looks a good Easter project for me and my little boy.
It would be a fun thing to do. You could top it with nuts too.
Milk and white equally !
🙂
I love white chocolate
It has to be White chocolate for it’s creamy taste 🙂 x
Milk chocolate, not really a fan of dark! Do like white chocolate though.
I’m learning to appreciate dark.
I tend to prefer dark chocolate now as I always overdo it with milk or white and then feel sick!
Oh Mandy you just made me laugh. You are so right!
I Love All Chocolate! But I really love dark chocolate. And I will never refuse Milk Chocolate or some White Chocolate. Actually I never refuse Tootsie Rolls!
I’ve never heard of Tootsie rolls!
Do I really have to pick just one?? I love dark chocolate, but also love milk chocolate but I am not a great lover of white chocolate x
No you don’t really have to pick. What’s wrong with all three as this bark recipes shows:)
Dark…..All the way. Preferably nice and strong 70%+….Yum.
I’m learning to like dark chocolate 🙂
I don’t actually like any chocolate but Andy loves dark chocolate! Recipe looks great and im sure Andy will eat whatever I make
Ah Juanita one of very few people or at least any I know. The thermometer is jolly useful not just for making chocolate so good luck!
5 *****star rating. Xxxxx
Nick and I love dark, the children love any! X
Im with your children j X
Usually dark, but have the odd craving for cheap and cheerful Cadbury’s Dairy Milk now and again !
I know what you mean. I like all chocolate myself. he type just depends on my mood.
Definitely milk chocolate. I don’t say no to white choc, though it can sometimes be a tad too sweet even for me, but I’m really not fond of dark chocolate.
Angela x
Milks my favourite but I am learning to like dark. I think in the past I had only eaten cheap dark chocolate but some of the “good” dark chocolate is really rather nice but you would only eat a tiny bit at at time its an altogether different beast.. Good thing though given the cost of some of them
Always dark, very dark:)
I was expecting more people to say dark but so far it appears milk is a favourite. It will be interesting to see if that changes.
Happy Easter. j x
It’s milk! I feel it should be dark but it’s not!
Nothing wrong with milk chocolate, It’s my favourite too.
White chocolate is my favourite – I still haven’t mastered making it vegan. I will though!
Your bark looks really lovely!
White used to be my favourite (Milky Bar to be exact) but now it’s definately milk and I am slowly learning to like dark chocolate too. Funny how your tastes can change over the years. Good luck with your Vegan white chocolate quest.
35% or higher milk chocolate
Now you’re talking! I must admit that I’am a milk chocolate fan but i do like the less sweeter high cocoa solid milk chocolate. That said I am beginning toappreciatee a good dark chocolate too.
Milk chocolate with raisins. Very lowbrow
Nothing wrong with milk chocolate and raisins!
I’m so going to try this! All chocolate is my favourite, but my most favourite is dark.
Ha Ha. I’m with you Natalie there all chocolate is my favourite too 🙂