Fact: people like bark (we three cooks among them)–especially bark that’s made lighter–and crisper–with graham cracker or other thin cookies. Here’s our take on bark this year which cherries, almonds, and chocolate.
Merry Christmas!
Black Forest Bark
by: Three Many Cooks
Serves: Makes 2 dozen
Ingredients
- 12 chocolate graham crackers
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 4 ounces bitter- or semi-sweet chocolate, melted
- 4 ounces white chocolate, melted
- 1 cup dried cherries, chopped if large
- ¾ cup cocoa almonds, finely chopped
Instructions
- Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9- by-13-inch rimmed baking sheet with vegetable cooking spray. Line pan bottom and up and over the long sides with heavy-duty foil for easy removal. Grease foil with vegetable cooking spray and then line with crackers, sugar side down, cutting as necessary to fit pan.
- Heat butter and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring frequently, until simmering. Pour mixture evenly over crackers and working quickly, use a spatula to spread it.
- Bake until bubbly and golden brown, about 10 minutes. (Watch carefully to make sure it doesn’t burn) Remove from oven, and using fork tines, drizzle melted chocolates over the cookies. Sprinkle with cherries and almonds. Freeze until firm. Using foil handles, remove bar from pan. Break into pieces and serve.
Notes
The day I made these I couldn’t find chocolate graham crackers, so I used a whole box of Famous Chocolate Wafers, setting them on a large wire rack over an 18- by 12-inch foil-lined rimmed baking sheet. Rather than pour the butter-sugar mixture over the graham crackers, I brushed each cookie with the mixture. The rest of this recipe is the same. Using the wafers you get uniformly round cookies rather than broken pieces.
Do you make your own cocoa almonds?This looks delicious!!!
They’re so widely available, and this time of year I’m so busy that I don’t make my own cocoa almonds. If you do, I’m impressed! Share a recipe if you have one.