Time goes fast when you’re having fun! It feels like the seasons skipped autumn this year and Christmas is already there. How much I love autumn there’s no reason to panic! This time of the year we share delicious food with the ones we love. What better way to end the night than sharing a delicious piece of homemade smoked chocolate?
Who doesn’t love a piece of chocolate? I especially like those dark chocoloate bars combining surprising flavors. My favorite bar is the one with seasalt by “Tony Chocolonely”. I wish they would sponsor me for saying this but unfortunately we still spend quite a lot of money to supply ourselves in our addiction… I’ve been experimenting with smoking chocolate for a while now but never used it in a real recipe. The love for delicious chocolate bars and the experience woodsmoke adds an interesting depth to the chocolate made think about how I could use it for a dessert. Here’s the result: “Smoked chocolate christmas bark”.
Smoked chocolate Christmas bark
Best part of the smoked chocolate bark? It’s one of the easiest recipes I ever made and you can add the toppings you desire. I opted for pistachio and cranberry to make the Christmas feel visible. But before you can add the toppings you need to melt your chocolate. This is the part where you can add the smoke flavor by melting the chocolate au bain marie in a BBQ with closed lid. Add the type of wood chunks you prefer to the hot coals. I used grapevines to get a subtle smokey flavor. If you like a heavy smoke taste you can melt all chocolate this way. I opted for subtility and used half smoked, half regular chocolate to form the bark.
Once the chocolate is molten you pour it on a large baking tray with greaseproof paper. This needs to be done quickly. Add the roasted pistachio and cranberries to the chocolate and put the chocolate in the fridge for an hour. Once the chocolate is firm you can crack the bark in pieces and serve them for dessert. I served them last weekend for my friends who came over for dinner. They seemed to appreciate the unique flavor of the chocolate. And if they didn’t my son does… He keeps on asking for it. Not only because he likes to help but he would eat more of the chocolate than I do.
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Pretty cool! Your directions are easy and smoked chocolate sounds exotic and wonderful.
Thank’s a lot! I’m glad to hear the directions are clear! It’s easier than it sounds 🙂
I love this combination of nuts and fruit with the chocolate. Such a nice gift idea too.
It is indeed! The smoky taste brings a nice depth too!
That makes a great handmade Christmas gift, with the green pistachios and red cranberries! So festive!
Thank you! It’s not only festive looking the taste is a party in the mouth 🙂
Delicious and colorful, perfect as homemade edible gifts for this season.
Yes indeed! I totally agree! I would love to get these too haha
I love making my own chocolate barks, combinations are endless! Thank you for sharing this, will give it a try 🙂
Have fun Andrea!
This is such an original recipe, I would never have thought about smoking chocolate, I’m so intrigued that I will have to try this recipe as soon as I can start grilling again.
Thank you ! I will make it again soon. That Christmas bark is strange for summer time grilling yet it would be awesome for a summer grill dessert too 🙂 I will make a more exotic version haha