29 Chocolate Bark Recipes Even Better Than A Candy Bar (2024)

This homemade chocolate bark puts just about any store-bought chocolate to shame, offering an unbeatable sweet, salty, crunchy hit to the palate. For best results, skip the chocolate chips (they're loaded with waxes and preservatives in order to retain their shape even after melting) and pick high-quality chocolate bars.

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Peppermint bark is a candy we cannot wait to get our hands on every holiday season. Luckily for you, you can make a batch in just 10 minutes flat.

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This chocolate bark is the PERFECT holiday treat. Loaded with dried cherries, pretzels, pistachios, and coconut flakes, it's just as gorgeous as it is satisfying.

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Now you can bring a little Baby Yoda joy to your kitchen with this adorable DIY chocolate bark. It’s the perfect treat for May 4 (aka May the Fourth aka Star Wars Day), or any day you’d like to make your life a little sweeter.

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Need a gift for friends, coworkers, and the babysitter? Chocolate toffee to the rescue. This recipe is really simple, but toffee in general can be a littttlllleee fussy. Our biggest piece of advice: WHISK CONSTANTLY! The moment you walk away from the saucepan, the butter and sugar will separate.

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This stunning red, white, and blue chocolate bark tastes like freedom, and is so fun for the whole family to help decorate. We love adding in all our favorite festive sprinkles, like edible stars and plenty of edible glitter.

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Chocolate toffee is really a beautiful blank canvas to add whatever you desire. With this recipe, we made it extra special with pumpkin seeds, perfect for enjoying during fall. Switch it up year round with your favorite nuts too!

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This white chocolate bark is probably the most simple from-scratch Halloween snack you can make. Use whatever variety of sprinkles, candy, and food coloring you like.

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Spicy, sweet and salty—the snacker's flavor trifecta—comes together in this all-in-one cereal and granola bark. It's great as an afternoon snack, but we wouldn't judge if you ate it for breakfast too!

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Not a fan of candy canes but still want that peppermint flavor? Make this peppermint bark instead. The green food dye is optional, but we think it adds an extra layer of fun (and color!).

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All the cheesecake flavor you love, minus any of the hassle. This is a frozen dessert you can feel good about, thanks to protein-ful Greek yogurt and a super-quick prep time.

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The more sprinkles on this rainbow chocolate bark, the better. Raid the seasonal candy aisle for fun candy toppers too!

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This candy has become a post-seder classic and is a great way to utilize any extra matzo you bought. Make a lot and give as gifts!

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Wild but true—Salty crackers make the most unbelievable base for sweet chocolate toffee. Go simple, or do what we did and top these with our fave chocolate candies.

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The salty-sweet food trend isn't breaking news, which means this Trash Bark (in all its chaotic glory) isn't a revolutionary concept. This snack-loaded chocolate did, however, help us pinpoint the exact thing that makes things like monster cookies, trash treats, and other sweet and salty desserts taste so good: potato chips!

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This easy "toffee" turns a simple saltine into a dessert. It does bake for 15 minutes, but trust us, it's SO easy, it won't feel like baking at all.

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When we say loaded, we mean LOADED. Not only is this chocolate bark topped with all our favorite peanut butter candies and crunchy nuts, it's also got a layer of sweetened peanut butter in the middle that tastes just like a Reese's cup. 😋

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Turn the classic candy bar into a delicious and easy bark, perfect for gifting to friends! We used shredded sweetened coconut here, but feel free to swap in toasted unsweetened if you want it to be less sweet.

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Finally, a cure for people's biggest issue with cookie dough: Not enough chocolate. The dual layers of cocoa take this to the next level, giving you the perfect ratio of snappy chocolate to gooey dough.

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If you love a Hershey's cookies 'n' creme bar, but wish it to be filled with EVEN more Oreos, this is the chocolate bark for you.

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