Looking for a quick, easy and customizable holiday treat? I have 21 Christmas bark recipes that you’ll love. You can easily tweak them to your taste or double them to feed a crowd if you’re hosting a party. Whether you prefer extra-sweet or a mix of sweet and salty, you’ll find something you love on this list.
21 Christmas Bark Recipes that Are Easy and Adorable
1. Peppermint Bark
Peppermint is a classic choice for Christmas bark because it pairs so well with the chocolate base. This Pin connects you to 16 different peppermint bark recipes, including ones with white chocolate, M&Ms, Oreos, hot cocoa and more.
Each one is delicious and quick and easy to make.
If you want to save time, try buying pre-crushed peppermint candy to add to your bark.
2. Loaded Christmas Bark
Here’s one of my favorite Christmas bark recipes. Along with white and dark chocolate, you’ll also add dried cranberries, pecans and peppermint candies.
The cranberries add a touch of tartness, while the nuts add a salty flavor that pairs so well with the chocolate.
If you’re not a fan of pecans, you can use walnuts, almonds or virtually any other nut you like.
3. Graham Cracker Bark
This Christmas bark tastes just like s’mores. It features tasty layers of graham crackers, melted chocolate, gooey marshmallows and Christmas candies.
Just line a 9.5” x 13” baking sheet with parchment paper and add a base layer of graham crackers. Then, melt the marshmallows in the microwave and spread them evenly over the graham crackers. Melt the chocolate and do the same.
Press your candies into the chocolate while it’s still melted, and chill for at least 30 minutes before breaking it apart into pieces.
You can use whatever candies you want. M&Ms, peppermint and sprinkles are great options.
4. Christmas Pretzel Bark
A sweet and salty bark recipe that pairs delicious dark chocolate with white chocolate, M&Ms, mini marshmallows, crushed peppermint and salty pretzels.
You’ll use full-size chocolate bars for this one. Add alternating blocks of dark and white chocolate to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Pop in the oven until they’re just about melted.
Use a toothpick to swirl the chocolate together.
Then, top with your candy, marshmallows and pretzels.
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5. Chocolate Transfer Sheet Bark
This is such a creative bark recipe for Christmas that’s almost too pretty to eat. To make these, you’ll need white chocolate, edible transfer sheets and crushed peppermint pieces.
Melt the chocolate and mix in the peppermint pieces while it’s still warm. Then, lay out your transfer sheet (shiny side down) on a baking sheet. Spread the chocolate over the sheet, and freeze.
Cut and serve. The bottom of your bark will have a fancy design that will surely impress your guests.
6. Cranberry Pistachio Chocolate Bark
The green and red color combo makes this recipe perfect for the holiday season. The white chocolate base really shows off the colors and pairs really well with the cranberries and pistachios.
Start by melting your chocolate and folding in crushed pistachios and dried cranberries. Spread the mixture out on a parchment-lined baking sheet and top with more crushed pistachios and cranberries.
Chill and then break apart into pieces.
If you want to make your candy even more festive, you could add Christmas sprinkles or M&Ms as an additional topping.
7. Grandma’s Christmas Bark
A classic bark recipe that adds a homemade caramel layer, chocolate chips and M&Ms. The caramel is just a mixture of butter and brown sugar that’s boiled until it becomes a light brown color.
Pour your caramel over a layer of Saltine crackers and bake until the caramel bubbles. Remove it from the oven, and immediately sprinkle on your chocolate chips so that they melt. Spread the chocolate with a spatula.
Add your M&Ms and whatever other toppings you want. Then, place them in the fridge until cool and hardened.
Break into small pieces and enjoy (or share with friends).
8. Date and Nut Chocolate Bark
Christmas bark recipes don’t always have to have festive sprinkles and candies. This recipe pairs delicious dates with peanut butter, almonds, pistachios and vegan chocolate.
You can use regular chocolate if you want, or swap out the peanut butter for almond butter. If you want to keep it sweet, you could ditch the peanut butter and make a caramel sauce with brown sugar and butter instead.
Start by creating a bottom layer of dates (you’ll need to smush them down into the pan to make the “crust”). Then, spread on the nut butter and add the crushed nuts. Pour melted chocolate on top and chill for at least an hour.
9. White Chocolate Bark
If you’re a fan of white chocolate, you’re going to love this recipe. It’s easily customizable and loaded with dried fruits and nuts to make it a somewhat healthy treat.
The recipe calls for dried cranberries, almonds and mini pretzels, but you can also add dried mango pieces, pumpkin seeds and whatever other ingredients you want.
10. Peppermint Bark Oreos
Here’s a different type of bark recipe. Instead of making a big block of bark that you break apart, you’ll add a bark layer to Oreo cookies.
Essentially, you’ll dip whole Oreos into melted white chocolate and top with crushed candy canes or peppermint candies.
If you want to stick with the traditional bark format, you could always crush the cookies to create the bottom layer, and pour the melted chocolate on top.
11. Holiday Bark Crackers
These holiday bark crackers are a little more complicated to prepare, but worth every second. To make them, you’ll dip one side of the graham crackers in melted white chocolate, place them on a baking sheet and sprinkle crushed peppermint on top. Pop them in the fridge to chill until firm.
Then, dip the other side in melted milk chocolate and set on a baking sheet. Chill in the fridge again. Once hardened, they’re ready to serve.
12. Christmas Reindeer Bark
How cute is this reindeer bark? It’s super simple to make, and you can have fun creating your reindeer however you want.
Just melt milk chocolate wafers in the microwave, and spread it out on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Then, start making your reindeer faces with broken pretzel twists, candy eyes and red M&Ms. Add snowflake sprinkles to the rest of the chocolate bark to make it even more festive.
Chill and then break into pieces, taking care to keep your little reindeer faces intact.
13. Salty Sweet Pretzel Bark
This pretzel bark recipe is simple to make and only requires a few ingredients: mini pretzel squares, semi-sweet chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and Christmas sprinkles.
Start with a bottom layer of pretzels. Pour melted semi-sweet chocolate over the pretzels, and then drizzle on the melted white chocolate. Top with Christmas sprinkles while the chocolate is still warm.
Chill, and then cut into squares or break into uneven pieces.
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14. 4-Ingredient Oreo Bark
This is one of my favorite Christmas bark recipes because it’s so colorful and delicious. You’ll need to start with a white chocolate base if you want to get that bright green color. Green food coloring won’t change the color of milk chocolate.
Then, add mint extract to the melted chocolate and stir in the Oreos.
Pour the mixture onto a baking sheet lined with wax paper. Pop in the freezer for two hours, and then break up your bark.
15. Festive Peppermint Chocolate Bark
This chocolate bark is a feast for the eyes and taste buds. The marbled dark and white chocolate contrasts perfectly against the green pistachios and red cranberries in this recipe.
To create that marbled look, you’ll need to melt your dark and white chocolate in separate bowls. Spread out the melted dark chocolate, and then dot the melted white chocolate on top. Use a toothpick or chopstick to swirl it around.
Top with chopped pistachios and dried cranberries. Let your bark chill in the fridge for a few hours before breaking it up.
If you want, you can add peppermint extract to the dark chocolate before you spread it.
16. Glittery Christmas Bark
This Christmas bark is gorgeous. I love the pretty little decorations and glitter, which make this treat look like you spent hours preparing it.
But the base is simple. You’ll need a few big bars of candy. Use a mix of white, milk and dark chocolate to get different shades. Arrange the bars on a parchment-lined baking sheet and melt in the oven.
Use a toothpick to create marbled chocolate.
Then, start decorating with broken candy canes, tea biscuits, gingerbread men, Christmas tree candies and other holiday-themed candies. Top the whole thing off with edible glitter and sprinkles.
Chill until hardened and then break into pieces.
17. Sweet and Salty Bark
The toppings for this bark are perfect for Christmas, and you’ll love the mix of sweet and salty. For this recipe, you’ll melt white chocolate and top with pretzel rods, plain potato chips, Funfetti Santaverse cookie sugar cookie mix, sprinkles, edible icing decorations and more white chocolate drizzle.
Chill, and then break apart into pieces once hardened.
18. Mint Oreo Christmas Bark
This recipe is super simple and delicious. Just melt alternating squares of white and dark chocolate in the oven.
Spread and swirl the chocolate with a toothpick. Then, sprinkle on crushed mint Oreo cookies, candy canes and whatever other toppings you want.
Chill for about an hour to let it fully set.
19. Oreo Peppermint Bark
This easy Oreo peppermint bark is perfect for giving as gifts or sharing with friends (but I won’t judge you if you want them all for yourself!).
This recipe creates alternating layers of white and dark chocolate over Oreo cookies and then tops it with crushed peppermint to create a treat that everyone will love.
Don’t forget to chill your bark before breaking it apart and sharing it.
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20. Snowman Chocolate Bark
This snowman chocolate bark is the cutest thing you’ll make this holiday season, and this is a recipe that the kids can help you prepare.
Start by melting chocolate wafers and pouring the mixture onto a lined baking sheet. Spread out the chocolate to create a rectangular shape.
Then sprinkle dried coconut to create a snowy look and start building your snowmen. Place groups of three white chocolate wafers on the chocolate to form the body and use broken pretzel sticks to create the arms. Add mini candy eyeballs for the eyes and cut dried mango into triangles to use as the nose.
Chill in the fridge before breaking your bark into pieces.
21. Salted Peppermint Chocolate Bark
If you’re looking for pretty Christmas bark recipes, you’ll love this one. It’s such a simple recipe, but the crushed peppermint really makes it look fancy.
Start with a layer of melted milk chocolate, and then add melted white chocolate while the first layer is still warm.
Top with crushed peppermint and a pinch of sea salt.
Chill for 30 minutes and cut into bars or triangles.
