- 2 lbs of quality dark chocolate
- 1 cup each of dried cranberries and candied orange peel
About Chocolate Bark w/ Cranberries & Candied Orange Zest
Believe it or not, this chocolate treat is really easy to make. Melt it, smooth it out, add in your toppings and wait until it hardens. The key is to use quality chocolate. Pastry Chef Lee Napoli uses Belgian chocolate but any quality chocolate will do. If you prefer nuts in your bark, try Lee's Chocolate Bark with Toasted Almonds recipe.
About Lee Napoli
Lee Napoli is the Owner/Pastry Chef at Chocolee in Boston's beautiful South End neighborhood. She has more than two decades of baking experience. Lee is self-taught and has worked with many talented pastry chefs to perfect her craft. This has left her with a willingness to work hard and an appreciation that success doesn't happen over night. Lee is well known for her work at Icarus, Maison Robert, Anago, Grill 23 and many other Boston landmark restaurants. She is a founder of the Professional Pastry Guild of New England and her most recent venture, ChocoLee Chocolates, in Boston's South End.
Recipe
Ingredients
How-to
- Line a baking sheet with parchment or waxed paper, or use a silicone baking sheet, and set aside
- Melt chocolate in a small saucepan over a pan with 1" water simmering on low heat, stirring occasionally, until smooth
- Remove from heat
- Pour a small amount of the chocolate mixture onto a lined baking sheet and spread very thinly into a roughly 12-by-10-inch rectangle. Sprinkle cranberries and orange peel over top.
- Carefully move parchment paper and chocolate off cookie sheet. Let set in a cool, dry location, 20-30 minutes. Once bark is hard, break up into shards
- Repeat steps 4 & 5 until you've used all the melted chocolate and toppings
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Just had one of your chocolates from the how2heroes party... it was amazing! Dark chocolate with lemon curd and pistachios... perfection! (May 8, 2009 1:30:23 PM)
Lynne made this for Christmas, and I loved it. So she gave me the leftovers...which I devoured! (Feb 5, 2009 12:42:14 PM)
This bark is not only beautiful but absolutely delicious! The citrus adds a pleasantly unexpected but highly compatible flavor twist to this festive chocolate treat. (Dec 23, 2008 6:48:41 PM)