Dark Chocolate Pistachio Bark

One of my friends made this for us for Christmas and I couldn’t get enough. It’s dark chocolate, pistachio, dried cranberries, and shaved coconut. So it’s pretty healthy! Oh, and there’s no baking involved which is always a plus in my book. It’s also green and red so it’s the perfect themed treat to make during the holidays or…. even now because it’s delicious. I think it would be a fun Valentines day treat too. The salted dark chocolate pairs great with red wine.

What you need:

1. one package of dark chocolate morsels (or 2 or 3 – one package of morsels is one “batch” of bark)
2. one bag of pistachios, shelled
3. one bag of dried cranberries
4. one bag of sweetened coconut
5. fine sea salt

Directions:

1. shell and chop the pistachios – I just ran them through the food processor for a few seconds
2. put wax paper on a cookie sheet
3. heat the chocolate according to package directions (about one minute in the microwave then stir and heat in 15 second intervals)
4. Pour dark chocolate on the wax paper and spread out
5. sprinkle on the salt, pistachios,coconut and cranberries, (in that order) then pop in the freezer for at least 3 hours
6. take out and break apart
7. to give away, line a small tin with wax paper and fill it up! ta-daaaaaa done.

I don’t have measurements because it really is all personal preference, and you can’t mess up, but from making multiple batches I would say that MORE is BETTER. More salt, more pistachio, more cranberries! I used half the bag of cranberries and half the bag of pistachios per batch.

I’ve been living in these two cardigans from Hi-Ho with the weather heating up and being all crazy. They are one of those perfect things that feel like a robe but that you can wear outside. That’s a win/win for everybody.