How to Make Peppermint Bark

How to Make Peppermint Bark

Mixing Together the Peppermint Bark Ingredients

Mixing Together the Peppermint Bark Ingredients

Adding the Topping to the Peppermint Bark

Adding the Topping to the Peppermint Bark

Cutting and Presenting the Peppermint Bark

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Lorraine Hooper

owner, Lola Cookies

www.lolacookies.com  

703-669-6970

Lorraine Hooper--better known as Lola-- is the owner of the all-scratch bakery Lola Cookies & Treats in Leesburg Virginia. A consumate baker, Hooper has more than 25 years of experience baking (and eating!) and is still searching constantly to improve various recipes. Her cookies and bars have won prizes at the very competitive Virginia State Fair and have beat out regional pastry chefs in competition for the 2007 Critics Choice Award for Best Tasting Chocolate Desserts at Chocolates Galore and More in Lansdown, VA.

The bakery she created, Lola Cookies & Treats, is a small shop in the historic district of Leesburg, Virginia. Cookies baked here, which have been featured on FOX-5 TV, are also available for shipping nationwide from the website <a>www.lolacookies.com</a>.

Mixing Together the Peppermint Bark Ingredients

In this video, professional baker Lorraine Hooper demonstrates how to make Christmas Peppermint Bark. This easy recipe using broken bits of candy canes is the same one used at her bakery in Leesburg, VA. This video shows how to make the chocolate cookie base, how to prepare the candy canes and how to anchor them with melted chocolate onto the bark.

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Mixing Together the Peppermint Bark Ingredients

Ingredients

4 sticks of butter
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
4 tablespoons of water
4 teaspoons of vanilla
3 cups of flour
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of cocoa
3 cups of melted chocolate chips
Topping:
3 cups of chocolate chips
10 ounces of candy cane pieces

Instructions

1. Put the butter in a mixer and add the brown and granulated sugars. Set the mixer on a low speed and combine the ingredients. Add the water and vanilla and mix at a low speed.


2. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa together in a separate bowl. Add it to the mixing bowl. Turn the mixer on and mix at low speed.


3. Melt the chocolate chips in the oven at 350 degrees for 5 minutes. Add them to the mixing bowl. Turn the mixer on low and stir until the ingredients are fully combined.


4. Spread the batter into 2 jelly roll pans that have been greased with cooking spray or butter.


5. Put the pans in the oven for 14 minutes at 350 degrees.


6. Remove them and sprinkle chocolate chips on top while the pans are still hot to melt the chocolate. Spread the chocolate around. Sprinkle the broken candy canes all over.


7. Let the peppermint bark cool for 2 hours and then cut them into triangles.

 

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