Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale, today I'm going to show you a fantastic easy treat, perfect
for the holiday season.
It's one of our favorites around here, and actually I Insagrammed about it a while ago
because I had made some and everyone wanted the recipe, which is not really a recipe,
but it is my pretzel and sea salt chocolate bark.
So good, three ingredients, so fantastic, perfect for an edible gift if you're looking
for something last minute that everybody will love, it's a combination of sweet and salty
that we all go crazy about.
This recipe is so beyond delicious.
Here's what you're going to need.
You're going to need some dark or bittersweet chocolate, but this is the melting chocolate
because it sets the best, and you're also going to need some sea salt and some mini
salted pretzels, now I have them in a little re-sealable bag because I'm going to take
out my daily frustration on my mini pretzels.
I just want to break them up a little bit so that they're a little bit smaller.
And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to pop my chocolate into the microwave and
I'm going to melt it in 30 second intervals until it's completely smooth.
I've got my baking sheet lined with parchement paper ready to go, so I'm going to pop this
in, melt it and come back here.
That is perfect, it's lovely and melted, I'm going to take about three quarters of it and
place that on a baking sheet.
And you want to get this as thin as possible.
You don't really want it to be thick because I think what is really great about it is that
the thin little layer of chocolate and then the really crunchy salty pretzel and the flakes
of the salt, so, so beyond delicious.
We are ridiculously obsessed.
Then you take your pretzels and I just kind of scatter them on the top, some pieces are
bigger, some are smaller, it doesn't really matter because you're going to break this
up with your hands anyway.
And you can leave the sea salt out of you want to because the pretzels are already salted,
but something about the salt just kind of makes the chocolate sweeter and it makes everything
stand out better, so I say you add it in.
And I like a good amount of pretzel because I like every single teeny tiny bite to have
pretzel in it but you can use less if you want to.
Then I take the remaining, which may be unnecessary to you but I take the remaining, first of
all, you take your salt, and you scatter it like so so it's kind of buried, and then you
just take the remaining and I just kind of go like that, I like to cover a little the
pretzels.
And then all I'm going to do is I'm going to pop this into the fridge until it's completely
set and it's not going to take very long, it's going to probably take about a half hour
or so, or you can leave it at room temperature for about an hour and I'll show you what it
looks like when it's done.
My bark has set beautifully!
I just popped it into the fridge, it only takes about a half an hour but like I said
you can leave it on the counter and it sets in like an hour or so and it is so good, you
can store it in the fridge if you want to but really it keeps perfectly if yo keep it
in a sealed container.
That's where I keep it.
And look at this.
This is my serving, which one's yours??
Look you just break it up like this, put this in a nice little container with some fancy
wax paper, and you are good to go, look at this.
Look how nice and thin, that's how I like it!
Mmm!
You know, it's simple really.
The ingredients, minimal.
So good!
So good, it makes you think that you're eating something a lot fancier than what it really
is, it's great to make with your kids, it's great to give away as an edible present, it's
inexpensive.
It's an all around awesome treat that's going to come in handy a lot throughout this time
of year.
Go to LauraintheKitchen.com, I'll just give you the written amounts of everything that
I've used, but by all means feel free to use whatever your heart desires.
Hope you've enjoyed spending time with me and I'll see you next time!
Bye!