![]() Martha Stewart Living, December/January 1999. If you don't have a double boiler, use a metal bowl set over a pot of simmering water to make this recipe. ![]() We feel like you are a friend now even though we aren’t really friends but your books have made us feel welcome into your culinary life. Peppermint bark makes for a delicious and refreshing sweet treat. Anyway, we love your writing style AND all the super helpful information. Scott is already onto the Sharper Your Knife book–he got first dibs this time. Your tips and shared experiences have helped to make it all the more fun! As we try and find ways to stay close and connected as a family with our growing teens, we have really learned to value and protect that dinner time with good food around the table. We had fun discussing the book together and finding application in our family with four kids. Hello there–This is a bit of a random place to comment but I wanted to let you know how much my husband and I both have enjoyed reading your books! To be honest, I don’t know how I stumbled upon your Kitchen Counter Cooking School book but I was immediately taken in from the very start and knew right away that my husband would like it equally. I turn on some cheery holiday music, grab the bags of dark and white chocolate chips, crush up some candy canes and be merry. So if I want peppermint bark these days, I have to make it myself. She’s semi-retired now and no longer works in an office, so she doesn’t do the marathon bark making anymore. While she was at it, she’d made some for the family, too. She packed it into tidy, colorful boxes along with personalized cheery notes. My sister used to spend a full weekend day making pounds of it to give to her magazine staff around the holidays. Wrapped up in a nice container, it’s makes a lovely holiday gift, too. It requires no baking prowess other than the ability to patiently melt chocolate chips. Part dark chocolate, part white and topped with crushed candy canes, it somehow defeats my anti-chocolate bias. Throughout the years, I’ve fallen in love one thing that’s decidedly chocolate based: my sister Sandy’s peppermint bark. You must put your personal preferences aside for the sake of your readers.” So I plowed through endless cakes, creme brulees and died what felt like a thousand deaths by chocolate. He said, “Kat, dessert is the reason why some people have to go out. But then I was working with Tom Sietsema, now the reviewer for The Washington Post. When I first wrote reviews, I often skipped dessert. This proved an issue when I worked as a restaurant reviewer. Give me a choice between a wedge chocolate cake and a slice of banana cream pie, you’ll find the banana-soaked remains of a crust within seconds.īy contrast, I once had a quart of chunky double chocolate ice cream in my fridge for two years until a friend house-sitting at my place after a break-up with her boyfriend ate the whole thing in one sitting. 1pound/455 grams good-quality semisweet chocolate (not chips), chopped 8ounces/225 grams good-quality white chocolate (not chips), chopped to teaspoon oil. But taste is so highly individualized and pesky in nature. Somehow by the mere fact of my gender, it’s assumed that I must immediately be in love with all things dark and sweet. This news always takes people by surprise. For instance, try the chocolate cupcakes with peppermint frosting, the chocolate-peppermint thumbprint cookies, or the peppermint bark! And speaking of Christmas candies, there’s also peppermint marshmallows, peppermint Oreo truffles, and homemade peppermint patties on this list, too.There’s a reason why I love peppermint bark that begins with a confession: I don’t like chocolate. After all, there’s nothing like the combination of rich chocolate and fresh peppermint flavor. Step 1: Heat coconut oil on medium heat until melted. Of course, this list of peppermint recipes features plenty of chocolate desserts, too. Steps for Making Your Own Peppermint Chocolate (Not Using Chocolate Chips). We’ve even included the peppermint brownie bites that Ree’s character in Candy Coated Christmas was known for! (The movie might be fictional, but the brownie recipe is very real. Stir pieces of candy canes and peppermint oil into the melted chocolate. ![]() Whether you’re after a candy cane-inspired cake or a new Christmas cookie recipe, this list of festive minty treats is full of holiday flavor. With a chefs knife or meat tenderizer, cut or pound candy canes into 1/4-inch pieces. So it’s no wonder she has a ton of peppermint recipes that are perfect for your Christmas dessert spread. Ree Drummond even had her very own Christmas movie set in a fictional town called Peppermint Hollow! "If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to get me in the holiday spirit, it’s peppermint," Ree says. It’s no secret that we love peppermint around here. ![]()
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