Thank you Marsha tbay for the Christmas bark at 19477. Duplicated it last night

[marilynfl]

and the result was identical to the photos , although I ix-nayed the "candy corn."

I would recommend changing the Oreos to a single layer crunchy cookie. I'm not sure how the original blogger did it (SuperGlu may have been involved), but the tops of most of my Oreos popped off when I cut the finished bark into pieces. The base chocolate is only thick enough to hold the bottom cookie. Once the bark was cut up, the majority of Oreos ended up as bottoms with scary red filling or worse, bottoms with no filling or top. Those looked like someone had pulled the Oreo apart, licked the inside filling off and then used the bottoms on the bark.

It wasn't me!

If you still want to use Oreos, an alternate suggestion would be to make the marbled base thick enough to embed the entire cookie. This, of courses, means you end up with chocolate plank versus bark. Not a bad plan.

Conversely, you can just pull the Oreos apart at the beginning and embed just the filling/top. That should work too.

A one pound bag of candy disks covered most of a Silpat. I only needed 40 grams (about 15 candy disks) of the red and green for the marbling.

If you put the tray in the frig to firm up the chocolate, be sure to let it come to room-temp before cutting. Otherwise, the chocolate will crack.

 

[angak]

I've made 4 batches of this already. a fun project, but you are so right about the oreos. and the

striped kisses were a challenge to cut and keep the pointy top as well. I went ahead and used 2 whole bags of chocolate chips---not just 8oz of each, and it filled my rimmed cookie sheet nicely. I put down parchment so I could lift it out to cut. I cut it into 5 long strips, then cut the strips into wonky pieces. I found that cutting it sooner rather than later made for easier cutting, and a warmed knife also helps. It set up nicely just in my kitchen, not in the fridge, but I'm just slighty more north of you. I added some chopped roasted almonds to my last 2 batches. It tastes really good, but it makes the marbling just a tad difficult. I think marbling with just some white chocolate and then putting on the toppings would also make a pretty bark---not so busy.