SWEETS

Chocolate, Almond and Sea Salt Bark

Chocolate bark is seriously the easiest ever entertaining solution.

It takes about thirty seconds to make, you can create endless flavor combinations (another favorite of mine is white-and-dark chocolate peppermint bark), and everyone is inexplicably impressed by it.

The key to making the stuff: use the best chocolate you can find. In this recipe quality does make a big difference.

1. Melt the chocolate in the microwave in thirty-second increments, stirring in between.

2. Mix in the almonds.

3. Spread the chocolate onto a wax paper-covered baking sheet, making sure that the almonds are distributed more or less evenly.

4. Sprinkle over flaky sea salt (I like to experiment with different exotic salts, but for this one I went with Himalayan Pink Salt), and let harden in the refrigerator before breaking into pieces.

More Mix-In Ideas (try picking one nut, one fruit, and one extra – like sea salt or coconut flakes):

Dried cherries

Dried mangos

Candied orange peel

Hazelnuts

Macadamia nuts

Almond slivers

Pistachios

Pine nuts

Toasted coconut flakes

Crushed peppermint

Crushed toffee

Crushed pink peppercorns

Finely slivered chilis

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