Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Bark with Sea Salt is so easy to make, just 3 ingredients! It makes a great homemade holiday gift!
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Bark
If you’re in the mood to make some holiday treats, and baking is not your thing, this bark recipe is for you! I used Lily’s Dark Chocolate Baking Bar which has no sugar added, so it’s almost sugar free. They are so easy and pretty hard to mess up. Perfect if you’re craving chocolate without the extra sugar! It is so good – I had to hide it from my husband. : ) If peanut butter’s not your thing, you may also like this Cranberry Pistachio Chocolate Bark.
You only need three ingredients for this bark recipe: Lily’s dark chocolate, creamy peanut butter, and coarse sea salt flakes like Maldon. It tastes just like a peanut butter cup! I’ve made them before with regular dark chocolate, but with all the sugar in chocolate a serving would be half of what I can make it with Lily’s chocolate, and it tasted great! I bought it on Amazon Whole Foods. I am not sure if it work with their other chocolate bars, but I can vouch for their baking bar.
How to Make Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Bark
- Melt the chocolate and peanut butter in the microwave and swirl them into a pretty pattern on a parchment-lined baking sheet. This is where the kids can help!
- Then refrigerate the bark until it is set up back into a solid.
- When the bark is hard, break it into pieces and eat or package it in cute tins or clear bags to give to friends and family. Gifting the candy is an easy and inexpensive way to spread a little holiday cheer.
Chocolate Bark Variations:
- Omit the peanut butter and top with chopped peanuts or your favorite nuts.
- Omit the peanut butter and top with dried fruit, chopped pretzels, mini m&ms, etc.
- Pour the melted mixture into mini muffin cups for individual portions.
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Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Bark
Ingredients
- 8 ounces Lily's sugar free dark chocolate baking bar* from two 4 ounce bars
- 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter I used Skippy
- a few pinches of coarse sea salt such as Maldon
Instructions
- Line a small 9 x 13-inch sheet pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Chop the chocolate with a knife. Melt the chocolate in the microwave, stirring the chocolate every 30 seconds to help avoid seizing. Once melted and smooth, set aside. This took me about 1 1/2 minutes, but will vary with every microwave.
- Melt the peanut butter in the microwave in 20-second increments, stirring after each increment, until completely smooth, about 4o seconds.
- Pour chocolate onto the prepared baking sheet, spreading with a rubber spatula into a smooth layer.
- Drizzle melted peanut butter mixture in parallel lines on top of chocolate. Run a toothpick or knife through to form swirls.
- Top with a pinch or two of coarse sea salt.
- Allow the bark to set completely in the refrigerator, about 30 minutes.
- Once hardened, break into pieces as large or as small as you want.
- Keep bark stored in an airtight container refrigerated or in a in a cool, dry place for up to 1 week.
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These taste GREAT! I found them to be pretty thin so when I tried to package them up as a gift they broke very easily. I think next time I would use a smaller pan or more chocolate in order to get them a little thicker for the presentation element.
Super easy to make! Absolutely delish! (I used Lily’s dark chocolate baking chips and didn’t even have to cut up the chocolate!)
I would like to make your recipe for dark chocolate and sea salt peanut butter bark but when do I add the sea salt.?
Can you use dark chocolate bars or bittersweet chocolate chips if the chips how many cups?
Amazing! 2 of my favourite things and easy to make:) the best chocolate snack since choosing to be vegan over 6 years ago.
Thank you:)
GHIRARDELLI Premium 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Bar have just a few calories more than Lily’s and use real sugar. Would this work okay in this recipe?
Amazing! Came out really crispy and delicious
This is fantastic, the only thing I wish is that it wouldn’t be so melty in my hand while even having a small piece.
It made me think of a dairy milk peanut butter pretzel chocolate bar that my partner and I used to love before we went vegan over 3 years ago. When I saw the salt I thought why not try pretzels and it turned out tasting very similar. So happy to have found this recipe. Thank you!
I am wondering why this has 17 grams of carbs if using Lilys Chocolate which only has 4 net grams of carbs and peanut butter which is also low in carbs?? 🤷🏻♀️
You’d have to compare the net carbs here.
So easy and so good!
so good! I made it with no added sugar!
Has anyone attempted to make this using a powdered PB that they reconstitute then melt down? Curious if it would work but not sure how melty it can get.
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My family loves peanut butter balls (buckeyes) at the holidays and this bark is a perfect way to eliminate all that powdered sugar and butter. Pure chocolate and peanut butter with a dash of flake salt checks all the boxes for a tasty and satisfying treat. I used Guittard block chocolate and Skippy. Yum!
I used Hershey’s Special Dark chips. It tasted delish, but was very quick to melt when touched anyone else have this issue? I’m wondering if it was the chips vs the bar chocolate.?
So I think I overcooked the chocolate and peanut butter. But when I was melting in the microwave the chocolate never looked as smooth and “liquidy” as yours. Any suggestions? Definitely want to give it another try! Thanks!
If you over-cook it that will happen. Its hard to go back and undo it so it’s important you do this 30 seconds at a time.
The Lily’s chips were $7 in my supermarket. Is this what everyone is paying?
I tried with Hershey’s Special Dark chips instead. It was amazing!
Hi, what percentage of cacao was in your chocolate bar? I didn’t find Lily’s at my store so I bought a different brand and it’s 85% cacao. Mine came out tasting somewhat bitter, so k wonder if the amount of cacao played a factor in that.