Halloween Bark is the cute Halloween food, you need to try this year! For easy Halloween snacks, then you can't go past melted chocolate with candy.
Chocolate Bark is simple to make! We have the indulgent Dark Chocolate Bark recipe which is super easy to make!
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Easy Halloween Snacks
If you want to make an easy recipe for Halloween then you need only combine 2 ingredients:
- chocolate
- candy
That is as simple as it is! You just need to think outside the box in terms of what candy to use and you are sorted! (Think snakes, lizards, frogs and you are on the right track).
Sounds spoooooooooky doesn't it. I can almost hear a ghostly voice whispering it out aloud, 'Halloween Bark'. But if that were the case it would sound more like 'Haaaaaaalloweeeeeeen Barrrrrrk' with a cackle on the end for good measure!
The concept for this bark is a graveyard. They are such places of mystery and sinister happenings and as Halloween is all about ghosts, witches and eyeballs, I thought we would go down that path.
You will LOVE this recipe if you have a party or event on Halloween and you want something that fits the bill but you want fast and easy halloween treats.
What is Halloween Bark
If you haven't heard of chocolate bark, you are missing out! It is the fun concept where you melt chocolate, put lots of delicious ingredients onto it and let it set. Halloween Bark puts a themed spin on that concept, by adding various candy creatures to our bark.
The best thing about this easy halloween food is that you will actually have a good time making it.
If you want to, you can put it into little candy bags once you have broken it into pieces, then it will be the perfect trick or treat food.
To achieve the spook effect we need for halloween, we need to add candy that is reminiscent of a shudder when you think about it. I am not a huge fan of toads and they definitely give me the shudders!
For fast and easy halloween treats have a little fun and let creative juices flow.
How to make Halloween Bark
Making Halloween Bark is easy!
Here is how to make it:
- Get candy ready in small bowls
- Use edible glue to make candy eyes stick to caramels
- Melt chocolate (can use microwave)
- Top melted chocolate with candy
- Set in the fridge
To keep with the month of October and Halloween theme, select candy that has a creature or scary (snakes, frogs, lizard) feeling about them.
Frequently asked questions
- The caramels are headstones to show that ghosts live in the graveyard
- Halloween colours are usually specifically orange, black and white. But it was going to literally kill me to hold all of my colours in so I decided that the nerds are the flowers you see on headstones!
- In saying that I was thinking of the Halloween colours and I found the black smarties at the shops yesterday and was happy to include them if I still had my chance to have other colours.
- Got to have some ole grass in the graveyard me thinks, hence the green swirl of chocolate
Top tips and tricks
- You can use white, milk or dark chocolate
- Edible glue is in the cooking aisle at the supermarket
- Go for fun, spooky candy!
- This will last in the fridge for at least a week, but it doesn't freeze well
- This is an EASY halloween food recipe
I am sure you will have just as much fun as I did making this cheap halloween party food!
Chocolate Bark Recipes
If you are new to making chocolate bark, then here are a couple of my other bark recipes on the blog:
It is super easy to make and it is fun too! There is literally no limit other than your imagination in terms of what you come up with!
For Halloween though, we all know, it is good to have some lollies or candy as they say in the US of A for all of the kiddies that come a knocking!!
How to serve Halloween Bark
Once the Halloween Bark has set in the fridge, it can be removed and broken into pieces. You can have various sizes as some kids or adults will want a small piece and some will want a big portion.
There are no rules to this, take the slab, start breaking it up and with the pieces.
If you like you can also separate it out into candy bags so that it is wrap and ready for trick or treat!
😍 More Easy Chocolate Recipes
If chocolate of all sorts, shapes and sizes are your thing, or Halloween in general check out my chocolate recipes to get you baking or the suggestions list below:
Hope you have a great party if you are going to have one, keep in mind creepy halloween food ideas are the most spooky!
Adrianne x
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📖 Recipe
Halloween Bark (Graveyard)
Ingredients
Halloween Bark (Graveyard)
- 375 g white chocolate melts
- ⅓ cup black smarties
- ¼ cup red frogs
- ⅓ cup nerds
- 2-3 drops green food colour
- 12 jersey caramels
- 24 edible eyes
- 1 tube edible food glue
- 1-2 drops vegetable oil
- 1-2 drops green food dye
Instructions
Halloween Bark (Graveyard)
- Place the jersey caramels onto a plate. Place 2 drops of edible glue on one at at time and stick the candy eyes on. Repeat till they are all done. Set aside to dry
- Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper
- Fill a medium sized saucepan with water and place on the stove. Add chocolate melts to a heat proof bowl that sits over sauce pan
- Stir the melts with a metal spoon as they melt. Use an oven proof mit (bowl will be hot) to remove from heat just before the last few bits melt. Keep stiring then move to your bench when the candy is set up
- Have vegetable oil and food colouring in a heatproof glass ready to go. When chocolate is fully melted pour a little bit into the glass and stir to turn chocolate green
- Pour white chocolate into baking tray and use back of spoon to smooth out
- Drop the green chocolate into the white chocolate and use a skewer to spread in all directions
- Add your headstones one by one
- Add smarties around the outside for the pebbles
- Add nerds for flowers
- Finish with red frogs
- Place in fridge to set
- Break into pieces when set
Notes
- I am honestly not sure if smarties are called the same thing in America. In Australia the little chocolate buttons covered with a sugary coating are called 'Smarties'. Not that it is very smart to eat too many of them (ie high sugar), maybe they should have been called 'dummies' instead haha. (I hope no one takes offense to this joke?)
- The thing with working with melted chocolate is that you have to do so quickly. In no time at all the chocolate will set but for this recipe you want to play with it a little 1st. So prep time is important. Before you start, have everything ready to go. I mean EVERYTHING. Get your lollies (candy) ready, get your skewer ready, your mixing spoon, your camera (if you are a food blogger or instagram nut). Be prepared.
- You can melt chocolate in the microwave, but I have already done 2 yoga classes today and my microwave is down low, their ain't too much more up and down a gal can do when she is braless and feeling like already having ticked the exercise box for today. The other thing about microwave cooking of chocolate, is that you have to constantly, heat, open door, stir and repeat and I think it is a bit more therapeutic to watch the chocolate melting on the stove. Plus it doesn't actually take longer. I am all for microwave cooking if you can press a few buttons and then walk away but chocolate in the microwave is not such cooking.
- You can use licorice all sorts if you don't like jersey caramels
- As you will see if you look closely at the photos, my eyeballs slid down the gravestones a bit. Dang it! I should have let them set (on a plate in the fridge for a bit longer after doing them) But I was so darn excited to make my graveyard!
Nutrition
This recipe was published on October 7th 2018, it was updated July 22th 2019.
mimi rippee says
I've never heard of most of these candies. But what fun! Maybe when my grand kids get older. If I made this now i'd have to eat it all!
Adrianne says
Haha Mimi! So true. Whenever I have sweets in the fridge I think twice about eating them.