Honk If You Love Bark!

So what exactly IS bark?  And we're not talking about recipes that call for 'almond bark' or 'bark coating' that you might melt at home to make a chocolate something.  We're talking about the confection known simple as "Bark".

Taking its name from the shape of tree bark, the confection known as "Bark" comes in as many different flavor combinations as you can imagine.  Once thought to be a clever way for chocolatiers and candy shops to make best use of leftover or extra chocolate and miscellaneous ingredients, bark has grown to a mainstream confection highly sought after for its wide and nearly limitless flavor combinations.

Bark is melted chocolate blended with nuts/fruit/cereal/cookies/popcorn/you name it, and poured on a nonstick sheet to cool. Once done, the nonstick sheet is bent/pulled, which renders the now cool chocolate into random broken pieces and shapes that resemble tree bark - hence the name. Of course you can make bark in a shallow pan, lined with a food grade pan liner, and cut into squares or rectangles if you prefer (this is the method we use to the bark will properly fit into our display case).

Bark variety is as limitless as your imagination.  One of our more unique flavors of bark is our Chocolate Bomb Pop bark we introduced this past summer. We try to develop 3-5 new flavors of bark each season; some stay, most will go, but we have a great time thinking/creating/sampling!

Bomb Pop Bark is a special blend of raspberry flavored/blue tinted white chocolate, strawberry flavored/red tinted white chocolate, with straight up white chocolate. The end result is a bit psychedelic, very funky, and super tasty.

Making this bark presents a tough challenging as it requires three separate chocolate ingredients to be individually blended/prepped/ready simultaneously, then for those chocolates to be carefully blended together produce the signature three color separation of a Bomb Pop.  We want every bite to include at least some of each flavor, so we give it our signature swirl as we make it to ensure the flavors blend top to bottom, and to help give it some "WOW" factor.  Of course, to top it all off, we add Red, White, and Blue sprinkle stars for final effect - well it is patriotic, right?

Like a kid in a candy store, we're just trying to make the very best chocolate for you, and have a really great time while doing it.  See you soon, sweets!