How beautiful are these peppermint bark pops? Shaped like an old-fashioned sucker, this Christmas candy looks so pretty on red and white striped lollipop sticks. These fun and festive treats are quick and easy to make, and only need a few ingredients.
A few years ago, I made peppermint bark by pouring layers of chocolate into cookie cutters. Those were so pretty, but a little trickier to make. So this year, I have a much simpler option that’s still lovely – these little peppermint bark pops on stripey sticks. No molds or piping or any special skills or equipment is needed to make these, as the melted chocolate is simply dropped by spoonfuls onto parchment to form the little bite-sized treats.
Looking for more Christmas recipes? You’ll love these baked gingerbread doughnuts, North Pole chocolate peppermint cake, 12 Days of Christmas Cookies for a cookie box.
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Instructions
Ingredients and Tools
- equal parts chocolate and white chocolate, or chocolate candy coating
- crushed peppermint candy
- treat sticks or lollipop sticks
- parchment paper
- red and green twine
Melt the Chocolate
You can use any kind of chocolate that you like, whether it’s milk, semi-sweet or dark. Even chocolate candy coating or candy melts works great. In separate bowls, melt your chocolate and white chocolate until smooth.
Assemble the Pops
On your baking sheet lined with parchment paper, spoon little mounds of chocolate. Before the chocolate sets, set your treat stick with one end resting in the chocolate. Chill for a few minutes.
Now you can spoon your white chocolate on top of the chocolate, so that you have a layer of each. Before the white chocolate sets, sprinkle with the crushed peppermint.
Chill and Wrap the Peppermint Bark Pops
After chilling your peppermint bark pops until the chocolate is hard, you can wrap them up. A pretty option is to just tie red and green twine around the sticks. But to keep things more sanitary, wrap each pop in a little piece of plastic wrap first. They look so beautiful arranged a jar on a Christmas dessert table.
Christmas Baking and Cooking
We have an assortment of cookies that I’ve packaged up into pretty polka-dot boxes for a few neighbors, including shortbread cutout cookies with almond-flavored royal icing (the shortbread being my favorite), spice bars with cream cheese frosting, salted caramel-stuffed chocolate chip cookies, and brown butter ginger molasses raisin cookies.
We also have white chocolate dipped Oreos, soft vanilla bean salted caramels, jars of dark and spicy apple butter, and lots of nuts in their shells for snacking. And for Christmas Day, there will be eggnog cake with bourbon vanilla buttercream and chocolate cream pie.
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Peppermint Bark Pops
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Ingredients
- milk, semi-sweet or dark chocolate (or chocolate candy coating)
- white chocolate (or white chocolate candy coating)
- crushed peppermint candy
- treat sticks
- parchment paper
- plastic wrap
- red and green twine
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate or candy coating (equal parts chocolate and white chocolate) in separate bowls, according to the instructions on the package. (Note, for my white chocolate, I used mostly white candy coating with a few pieces of bright pink candy coating, for the palest pink tint.)
- Lay a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet. Spoon tablespoons of dark chocolate onto the parchment, letting it pool in little mounds. Before the chocolate sets, lay the treat sticks down so that one end rests in the chocolate. Refrigerate for several minutes, until chilled.
- Spoon the white chocolate on top of the chilled dark chocolate. Sprinkle with the crushed peppermint. Refrigerate until firm.
- If you like, alternate the dark chocolate and white chocolate, so that the dark is on top for half of the pops instead of all on the bottom. Another option might be to spoon the white over the dark before the dark sets, and swirl them together slightly.
- After the chocolate has hardened, wrap each pop in small pieces of plastic wrap, and tie with twine.
The $2.49/only you..you have a cute gene..more than one..love the treats..the stockings and that beautiful sign..
and yes..have yourself a Merry Little Christmas..w/ bébé..love the addition of his stocking♥
It's mommy's first Christmas.
The little price tag is vintage – it's from @shopthemerrymagpievintage on IG. She's local, just down the street from me, actually, and sources things from antique stores.
These pops are super cute and would be a perfect treat for children. I know they will be popular with our niece and nephew