Have some fun in the kitchen making this Triple Chocolate Bark. 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.
Triple Chocolate Bark
Ingredients
- 200 g plain (dark) chocolate
- 200 g milk chocolate
- 200 g white chocolate
- mini eggs, chopped
- rosemary and sea salt crystals
Instructions
- 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,
Notes
Nutrition
Your Chance to Win a Thermapen
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Allison Sherwood
I love dark chocolate
Julie
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!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Personally I don't get the chocolate orange thing. But I'm with you on Galaxy:)
Maxine G
Dark - especially with a strong black coffee. A delicious treat!
Jayne K
Milk chocolate but not too sweet
Christine Caple
I like milk chocolate best, dark is okay, but I don't like white chocolate at all.
Harline Parkin
I love dark chocolate the best but I do love milk and White too
Iris W
Milk chocolate is my favourite but I am not to fussy really and quite happily eat dark or white chocolate too
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
me too 🙂
Jayne Townson
I love all chocolate, but if I had to pick, then it would be milk. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Your welcome- Good luck!
Sarah Glover
I love dark chocolate.... not TOO dark though!!
Rachel Butterworth
Milk (although I am on a bit of a white chocolate kick at the moment).
Emilie Baltimore
I've gone to the dark side, I'm afraid 😉
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I'm slowly moving over to the darker side.
Natalie Turner
I love dark, I find I can't stand the over-sweetness of any other chocolate
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
i just love chocolate full stop but i do particularly like a higher cocoa solid milk as it is less sweet
Samantha Atherton
Definitely going to try this. I like dark chocolate the most.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Do let me know how you get on Im sure you will like it. What's not to like:)
Wendy Burdon
I love all chocolate, but white chocolate the best!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I can see why this recipe appeals to you with all three:)
Mark Scott
Milk chocolate for me it's my favourite
Sarah
My husband loves dark chocolate but I much prefer milk.
Matt McAndrew
White
Dawn Wilkinson
Dark chocolate is my favourite even when I was a child.
Jayne
I love all chocolate but love a good dark chocolate with dried raspberries in.
Julie Simmons
White chocolate is definitely my favourite but I'm trying to wean myself off sugar so would pick a good 85% dark chocolate instead!
Angie S
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 🙂
Virginia Chattaway
White chocolate! Yum!
Ruth Harwood
Milk chocolate has to be my fave, tho I am partial to a slice or two of white choc!!
Helen Webb
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!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I prefer Galaxy to Cadburys I think its creamier
Jo
In a 50% cocoa solids kinda gal between milk and dark. Not that I'm fussy or per 😉
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
No one should be too fussy when it comes to Chocolate;) Good luck
SHIRLEY EVANS
Love dark chocolate
Selina F
White chocolate
Rebecca Nisbet
i prefer milk, but would happily eat all 3!
Kate
It has to be milk chocolate although I have become very fond of white lately - I really dislike dark chocolate!
Heather T
I can't choose - I would eat any or all types of chocolate!
Kim M
Love milk x
Katie Skeoch
I love a piece of dark chocolate!
Jo Carroll
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.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Good choice
kim plant
white xx
Cheryl Price
I love milk chocolate the best
Cheryl Price
I love milk chocolate the best
susan hoggett
I do love white chocolate, so creamy!
Julie Jones
I love Dark chocolate and as Real Chocolate is actually good for you its a bonus
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I think a little bit of any chocolate is good for you its certainly good for your soul 😉
Midgie
Defintely Dark chocolate lovers here!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
it's still mik for me but I am slowly moving more and more towards dark.
Tracy Newton
I love all chocolate, especially milk chocolate.
Natalie Crossan
milk choc xx
melanie stirling
Milk is my favourite.
Isabelle Smith
DARK!!
Kat Comer
I like all chocolate!
Claire C
Milk is my favourite
Laura Nice
White chocolate for me!
Sarah Cooper
Milk chocolate is my favourite,
pete c
gotta be milk chocolate for me
Mark R
Like them all but favourite has to be milk chocolate
Lisa Parker
I love both milk chocolate and white chocolate x
Claire Holtey
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
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
yep I get where your coming from
Keith Hunt
White
Becky John
Milk chocolate
Kathy Cakebread
Love milk chocolate 🙂
Lorraine B
Milk, although the older I get the more I appreciate dark chocolate
Laura Pritchard
Milk but also milk with white combined!
Lorna Ledger
oooh so hard, today I'm choosing white, tomorrow, it might be different!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
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.
Ellen Sheppard
I love white chocolate.
pauline hill
LOVE the dark chocolate
Sheena Batey
I honestly like all three but prefer dark chocolate if I had to choose.
RebeccaC
Dark chocolate is a family favourite at our house.
Tony Metcalfe
Milk chocolate for me.
Stevie
I like milk chocolate but enjoy dark chocolate for a rare treat.
Caroline Cordery
white
PenoirB
My favourite is milk chocolate closely followed by white chocolate.
Hazel Rea
I love dark chocolate - particularly 85% and it's guilt free because of all those antioxidants it contains!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Ha ha Exactly!
Tee Simpson
Milk chocolate
Kirsty Sparks
I love milk chocolate 🙂
charlotte
milk! especially galaxy mmm
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I'm rather partial to Galaxy myself.
Sharon Lou Johnson
i just love milk x
Carolynn Woodland
I love milk chocolate the best.
Amanda
Milk Chocolate is my favourite
Katie
Dark chocolate for me
Kevin Honey
Milk Chocolate
Rebecca Smith
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.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
They are indeed. You can have such fun. The toppings are almost limitless.
ruth robinson
i really like the creaminess of milk chocolate
Caroline H
Got to be dark for me.
Alexandra oliver
dark chocolate with ginger- yum!
cheryl hadfield
Milk chocolate
Lorraine Tinsley
Dark is my favourite
Claire Nutman
Dark ginger is my fave x thank you
laura banks
my favorite is dark chocolate
leanne weir
milk chocolate
Tracy Read
Milk
Emma Pascoe
Milk or White! Yum!
Sarah Ann
My favourite type of chocolate is definitely dark.
jenny walters
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
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
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.
Becky Duffy
Milk chocolate is my favourite!
Sam R
I love milk chocolate x
Lisa Pope
Milk to eat & dark in cooking
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Yep! Totally agree!
Solange
I love milk chocolate.
Sofie
Dark chocolate definitely
Kim Neville
Milk chocolate is my fsvourite
Fozia Akhtar
Milk chocolate
Eb Gargano / easypeasyfoodie.com
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
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
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
Joanne Blunt
I love dark chocolate
Louise A
I like them all especially dark chocolate with coffee but my absolute favourite is white
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
With coffee now your talking.Have you tried my coffee truffles?
Sarah Mackay
I love white chocolate
Emma Ellams
Yummy white!
sam macaree
i love all of them!
sarah birkett
milk please ( or white )
Tom
I'll eat pretty much any chocolate, but my favourite is probably dark!
Gillian Hutchison
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!!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
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.
Lucy B
Dark as its good for me x
Soph H
White chocolate I reckon, although I like milk too
Lee Ritson
Definitely white chocolate for me. Will eat any but preference is white 🙂
clair downham
i like dark and milk
Anthony Harrington
the Darker the better for me! love all choccy but dark is my fav!
Jennifer Gardner
Milk chocolate for me!
simon tutthill
I have to say i love white chocolate,tastes absolutely gorgeous
Ritchie
Dark.
Alan Chung
I do prefer dark chocolate as its not too sweet
Edward Guerreiro
For the longest time white chocolate was my favourite. But as I have got older, I have started to like dark chocolate more.
Lorraine Kirk
Milk chocolate is my favourite .... although I am not fussy when it comes to chocolate.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I'm with you there.
Rachael G
Milk is my favourite.
Mariel Pereira
75% Dark
Louise Smith
Milk
stuart hargreaves
milk chocolate- however I ration myself to one bar a week
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
That's very restrained of you. How big is the bar though 🙂
Paul Wilson
I like all of them, but I particularly like dark chocolate at the moment.
Marc H
Dark, the higher the cocoa content the better. Will quite happily munch on any chocolate though.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I prefer milk but definitely like a little bit of dark too.
Ann-Marie Gould
milk chocolate 🙂
Bob Clark
milk chocalate every time
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
me too
Mark Johnson
love all chocolate but dark is my favourite
Mary N
It depends on how I'm feeling. I do mostly like dark but there are times when I prefer the sweetness of milk chocolate.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I'm more the other way round. I mostly like milk but occasionally prefer to have dark.
Rob Hutchinson
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.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Agree but I tend to prefer salt on dark than milk
tamsin w
i love dark
Zoe C
Milk chocolate is my fave
kim jackson
I love all chocolate but my go to is normally milk chocolate 😀
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
with you there:)
Sarah Rees
I love milk chocolate and white chocolate but cant stand dark chocolate
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Try some really good quality dark (in small amounts) it might just start to change your mind.
S Edwards
I love milk chocolates but dark chocolate is better for you 🙂
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I like to think a little bit of any chocolate is good for you!
Heather Haigh
I have to have dairy free chocolate but I like the 'milky' ones best.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
That sounds like bad luck or does it taste just as good?
Kerry Taylor
Milk chocolate, with nuts. Yummy! This looks a good Easter project for me and my little boy.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
It would be a fun thing to do. You could top it with nuts too.
Tracy Nixon
Milk and white equally !
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
🙂
Heather Simpson
I love white chocolate
Tracey Peach
It has to be White chocolate for it's creamy taste 🙂 x
Fiona
Milk chocolate, not really a fan of dark! Do like white chocolate though.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I'm learning to appreciate dark.
Mandy
I tend to prefer dark chocolate now as I always overdo it with milk or white and then feel sick!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Oh Mandy you just made me laugh. You are so right!
Charlotte Jones
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!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I've never heard of Tootsie rolls!
Kirsty Hijacked By Twins
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
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
No you don't really have to pick. What's wrong with all three as this bark recipes shows:)
Sophie
Dark.....All the way. Preferably nice and strong 70%+....Yum.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I'm learning to like dark chocolate 🙂
Juanita
I don't actually like any chocolate but Andy loves dark chocolate! Recipe looks great and im sure Andy will eat whatever I make
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
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!
Helen Linder
5 *****star rating. Xxxxx
Helen Linder
Nick and I love dark, the children love any! X
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Im with your children j X
Pauline Jones
Usually dark, but have the odd craving for cheap and cheerful Cadbury's Dairy Milk now and again !
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I know what you mean. I like all chocolate myself. he type just depends on my mood.
Angela / Only Crumbs Remain
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
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
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
Monika Dabrowski
Always dark, very dark:)
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
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
Corina
It's milk! I feel it should be dark but it's not!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Nothing wrong with milk chocolate, It's my favourite too.
Nico @ yumsome
White chocolate is my favourite - I still haven't mastered making it vegan. I will though!
Your bark looks really lovely!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
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.
Sabrina
35% or higher milk chocolate
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
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.
Eva
Milk chocolate with raisins. Very lowbrow
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Nothing wrong with milk chocolate and raisins!
Natalie
I'm so going to try this! All chocolate is my favourite, but my most favourite is dark.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Ha Ha. I'm with you Natalie there all chocolate is my favourite too 🙂