It's very easy to make your own chocolate almond bark with two or three ingredients, and you can customize the recipe to your liking! Whether you prefer milk chocolate, dark chocolate, unsweetened chocolate, or dairy-free chocolate, the choice is up to you. If almonds aren't your favorite, then choose another kind of nut to mix in.
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Gluten-Free Chocolate
It's surprising how difficult it can be to find gluten-free chocolate with almonds! There's no reason for chocolate or almonds to contain wheat. However, I've learned the hard way to be meticulous when it comes to reading the labels of whatever I am consuming.
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Chocolate Almond Bark Ingredients
- Chocolate: Choose your own preferred chocolate. The nutritional value of your chocolate bark will depend on the ingredients in the chocolate you use. Select chocolate chips, morsels, or solid chocolate that are free from gluten and dairy if you need to. Make sure that you're using pure chocolate chips, so they melt properly. Try to find those with chocolate listed before sugar in the ingredients label, if you can.
- Nuts: Then select from almonds, peanuts, cashews, pistachios, hazelnuts, walnuts, or pecans. Ideally, they should be non-roasted, as you'll be roasting them.
- Salt: The salt may be optional, depending on the chocolate and nuts that you're using. I like a nice coarse sea salt, but fine salt will still add flavor. Himalayan pink salt is pretty and fun to use.
How to Make Chocolate Almond Bark
1. Toast the nuts in a preheated oven. Watch them closely, especially if they have been roasted before.
2. At the same time, warm a heat-tolerant bowl. Immediately transfer the hot nuts to the bowl.
3. Add chocolate chips, or chopped solid chocolate, and salt.
4. Cover the bowl with the warm baking sheet for 3 minutes.
5. Stir the melted chocolate, roasted nuts, and salt together.
6. Spread the soft, warm mixture onto parchment paper to cool.
Optional Variations
Chocolate Almond Bark or Bars
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I have cute little mini loaf pans that I have used to make chocolate bars.
If you don't have the pans, it's easy to spread the whole melted chocolate-toasted almond mixture onto a parchment-lined baking sheet to cool. Then, just break it up into pieces for chocolate bark.
Add Ons
Hot Chili Pepper: Stir in some hot pepper flakes with the melted chocolate for a little heat.
Extra Salt: Sprinkle some coarse sea salt onto the chocolate mixture after it has been spread out.
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If you try this recipe with any kind of raw nut, I'd love to read about it in the comments below. What chocolate-nut combination did you use?
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup raw shelled almonds
- 2 cups chocolate chips (12 ounces)
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Line four mini loaf pans or a flat baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Spread nuts out on a baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven 4 - 6 minutes until toasted. Warm a heat-proof bowl at the same time. If the nuts have previously been roasted, you might want to take them out of the oven after 4 minutes.1 cup raw
- Transfer hot almonds immediately to warmed bowl. Add chocolate chips and sea salt. Cover with the baking sheet and let sit for 3 minutes.2 cups chocolate chips¼ teaspoon sea salt
- Stir together softened chocolate to completely coat nuts. Spread out and press into mini loaf pans for bars, or spread out onto baking sheet for bark.
- Chill to harden.
Chef Markus Mueller says
This is a great idea Cathy! We all make granola / granola bars and balls at home..but why not homemade chocolate bars!! I gotta look into making my own candy at home..seems to be a forgotten art unless you do it professionally. Plus my kids would love it!
Cathy says
It's a great way to control the quality.
Terri says
Wow- who knew you had to check chocolate for wheat?! This looks great, by the way!!
Cathy says
Yes, I learned the lesson the hard way.
Vanessa says
This looks like a great, easy to make recipe and it’s awesome it only requires a few ingredients! These would make such a wonderful treat for when those chocolate cravings hit!
Cathy says
They sure are! I have to be careful not to eat too much!