11 Best Chocolate Bark Recipes

These are barks you'll want to bite! This collection of the best chocolate bark recipes has something for everyone. Chocolate bark is so easy to make, it's the perfect candy recipe for beginners—you literally just add a few ingredients to melted chocolate, spread it out, and you're good to go!

So whether you're new to candy making, or an experienced pro, you're sure to find a bark recipe here to tempt your sweet tooth.

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Peppermint Bark

The Spruce

Peppermint bark is perhaps the best-known type of chocolate bark and is a holiday favorite. Who can resist dark chocolate, white chocolate, and crisp bites of minty candy canes? This delicious, easy peppermint bark makes a wonderful holiday gift.
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Cookies and Cream Bark

The Spruce / Elizabeth LaBau

Crushed cookies and white chocolate—what could be easier? This cookies and cream bark is an easy white chocolate bark candy packed with bits of Oreo cookies. Stuff this bark with as many cookies as possible, with just enough white chocolate to hold the crunchy, chocolatey, cream-filled cookies together.
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Unicorn Bark

The Spruce / Elizabeth LaBau

Candy should be fun—that's why I've loaded this unicorn bark with pastel swirls and all kinds of colorful, sparkling candy pearls and sprinkles!
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Pretzel Bark

The Spruce Eats / Elaine Lemm

Pretzel bark is incredibly easy to make. This recipe uses chocolate bark, sugar, butter, and heavy cream. Top it with mini pretzels and other decorations, then let it set up.

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S'mores Bark

The Spruce / Elizabeth LaBau

Love S'mores? Try them in candy form! S’mores bark is an easy, delicious candy with milk chocolate, graham cracker chunks, and miniature marshmallows.
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Spicy Chocolate Bark

The Spruce / Elizabeth LaBau

This recipe for spicy chocolate bark is made with sweet milk chocolate, candied pecans, and a pinch of cayenne. Sensitive to spice? Omit it entirely and add cinnamon or ginger instead! Love to heat things up? Double the cayenne and feel the burn!
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Lemon Bark

Elizabeth LaBau

Lemon bark features layers of bittersweet chocolate and lemon-scented white chocolate, topped with vibrant candied lemon zest.
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Cookie Dough Bark

Elizabeth LaBau

Cookie dough bark features real chocolate chip cookie dough, sandwiched between two slabs of rich chocolate. The dough is egg-free, so it's perfectly safe to consume raw. This is a great way to get your cookie dough fix!

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Mint Chocolate Bark

The Spruce / Elizabeth LaBau

Mint chocolate bark has a beautiful swirled green-and-chocolate appearance, and a refreshing minty flavor, topped with Andes mints. If you'd like a little more crunch in your bark, stir some crushed grasshopper or thin mint cookies into the chocolate layer.
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Chocolate Bacon Bark

The Spruce / Elizabeth LaBau

Surprise! This sweet-and-salty bark has an unexpected ingredient: crispy bacon! The salty, smoky savoriness and turns this chocolate bacon bark from something average to something unique and extraordinary.
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Toasted Coconut Bark

The Spruce / Elizabeth LaBau

Crunchy, sweet toasted coconut and semi-sweet chocolate combine in this simple recipe for toasted coconut bark. It’s amazing how two ingredients and fifteen minutes can produce such a sophisticated, tasty treat!