Although the majority of my Christmas food preparations centers around cookies, I do like to take a day and make candy. This is a very easy one that looks like you went to a huge amount of trouble.
Mint Candy
1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips or pieces
1 pound of vanilla candy coating
3/4 cup finely crushed peppermint candy
Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil.
Place the chocolate in a microwave-proof bowl and melt. Be careful as it will burn unless you take care.
In a larger bowl, melt the candy coating according to the directions on the package. This stuff will brown on you if you don't mind the microwave or pot. Stir in the crushed peppermint candy.
Spread the vanilla coating mix on the prepared baking sheet to an even thickness, not too thin but not chunky, either.
Drizzle over the chocolate and quickly pull a knife through to form a marbled pattern. Refrigerate until firm, remove from foil, and break into pieces. Will store well in a closed container for about two weeks . . . if it lasts that long.
*You can usually find the candy coating in the baking section around the holiday season.
*Candy canes or the red and white, hard mint candies work well for this.
Ideas . . .
The candy coating also comes in chocolate flavor so you could do a brown with white chocolate chip swirls.
Mixing in 1 cup of chopped, toasted almonds into just the vanilla coating (melted) produces a very good almond bark.
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