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Crispy Chocolate Bark Candy

Crispy Chocolate Bark Candy-Just 2 ingredients-Rice Krispies Cereal and Chocolate Almond Bark, you won’t believe how good this is until you make it yourself!

Crispy Chocolate Bark Candy-Just 2 ingredients-Rice Krispies Cereal and Chocolate Almond Bark, you won't believe how good this is until you make it yourself!

I’m a big fan of adding cereal to recipes. Corn Flakes in Cookies, Making Smores Treats with Golden Grahams.  Special K in my Cereal Bars. But I never thought about adding it to chocolate bark.

I don’t know why. Maybe because the cereal by itself…isn’t that great.

Sure as a kid, I’d eat 3 bowls of it, especially the sugary stuff. My mom should have had stock in Captain Crunch when I was growing up.

Now, I wonder how I ate it all. Way too sweet. I’m a Special K girl now. Especially as a bedtime snack. Don’t judge.

Rice Krispies never did much for me. I had to add a lot of sugar to make it worth my time. Then it would get soggy before I finished eating it all. Of course to be fair, If I had used a regular sized bowl instead of the biggest bowl I could find, it might have stayed crisp.

Crispy Chocolate Bark Candy-Just 2 ingredients-Rice Krispies Cereal and Chocolate Almond Bark, you won't believe how good this is until you make it yourself!

The real reason I wanted to share this bark is the pretty pattern on the back of the bark. Sprinkles always make desserts look good. That takes care of the top. I’ve been crushing on Manuela and Passion for Baking. She made some chocolate bark last year. It had a beautiful texture pattern on the back side and mini marshmallows on top.

A quick Amazon search found the mat she used. It’s a Silicone Mat for creating texture for fondant. The stuff you put on a cake. A fancy cake. It’s also pricy. It is  heat resistant to 400 degrees so I won’t just be using it for candy making. I’ve got some cute ideas for cookies I’ll be testing out soon. Oh and it’s huge! Twice the size of my large baking sheets…so I cut it in half. I can make twice as much candy at once, or I could be nice and give the other half to a friend.

You don’t have to spend a lot to make pretty chocolate though. There is a set of 4 Imprint Mats I plan on getting for under $10.00.

Crispy Chocolate Bark Candy-Just 2 ingredients-Rice Krispies Cereal and Chocolate Almond Bark, you won't believe how good this is until you make it yourself!

I could have just melted my chocolate and spread it out on the mat. But that would be boring.

I like my chocolate with stuff.

Peanuts, pecans or pistachios. Dried Strawberries or blueberries are amazing in chocolate. Even adding in other candy like peanut butter cups, M&Ms or Malted Milk Balls.

Looking around my kitchen, I spied the cereal (left out on the counter, again) and thought why not. This was just a test run of my new mat anyway.

This may just be the best use of cereal ever! The Rice Krispies stay crispy in the chocolate (even a week or 2 later.) It’s a delicate crunch, almost like popping air, with each bite.

Crispy Chocolate Bark Candy-Just 2 ingredients-Rice Krispies Cereal and Chocolate Almond Bark, you won't believe how good this is until you make it yourself!

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Crispy Chocolate Bark Candy

Crispy Chocolate Bark Candy

Ingredients

  • 16 ounces chocolate almond bark or candy melts
  • 1 cup Rice Krispie Cereal
  • Sprinkles

Instructions

  1. Follow directions on Chocolate for melting.
  2. Stir in Rice Krispie cereal.
  3. Spread chocolate on impression mat or a wax paper lined tray, using an off set spatula to about 1/4 inch thick. The thinner, the better. Sprinkle sprinkles on top.
  4. Let chocolate coll, setting completely to a hard chocolate. Slice or break into pieces. Store in an airtight container.
Crispy Chocolate Bark Candy-Just 2 ingredients-Rice Krispies Cereal and Chocolate Almond Bark, you won't believe how good this is until you make it yourself!

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Comments

  3. Scarlett says

    LOL – you don’t really think anyone looks at the back of such a decadent piece of deliciousness do you?????

  4. Wendy O'Brien says

    hello
    love your recipes but find them a bit of a challenge understanding some of the ingredients & trying to convert to ‘Australian’ ingredients!
    please… what is Almond Bark & Candy Melts?
    thanks
    Wendy

    • Joan Hayes says

      Almond Bark and Candy melts is chocolate that is made specifically for making candy. After melting and shaping, it will harden back up like a candy bar. You can use chocolate chips but sometimes heat and humidity will keep the chips from hardening back completely and then you end up with the chocolate melting on your fingers and hands when eating it.

  8. terri says

    you mentioned cookies.. you know you can buy all kinds of cookie stamps (for the tops) or you can use a cut glass (dip in sugar as you press each one), or, you can use regular rubber stamps you buy in the craft dept like at Wallyhell, Michaels, or Hobby Lobby. =)

  9. Christi @ Love From The Oven says

    I love this, I’m such a bark fan and that pattern on the back – gorgeous! I love Manuela’s work. I feel she must live on a perfect pink cloud, probably made of cotton candy. Everything is so pretty and airy and awesome. Love this recipe Joan!