Easy Butterfinger Bark Recipe | #HalloweenTreatsWeek

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Why You Should Make This Recipe

One of the great things about bark candies is that they are easy to make.

This Butterfinger bark stands out for a couple of reasons:

1. They’re made with homemade coating chocolate, which is just a mixture of chocolate and coconut oil. This means you can use your favorite chocolate or chocolate chips to make them.
2. They have 2 layers: a milk chocolate layer and a vanilla chip layer. You can of course make your own layers using peanut butter chips, dark chocolate chips, etc.
3. They have double Butterfinger flavor with both chopped Butterfinger bars and peanuts and candy corn. The peanut/candy corn mixture also mimics the taste, if not the texture, of a Butterfinger bar. Cool!
4. The sweetness if tempered with the salty peanut. You coulf further temper the sweetness by adding a sprinkling of finishing salt to the top layer or even tossing on some coarsely crushed pretzel twistsl

How to Make Butterfinger Bark

These layered candies are very easy to make. They just require a little bit of time so the layers can set up and chill in the fridge.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Ingredients and Substitutions

• Chocolate chips: In my layered candies, I used milk chocolate and vanilla chips. Feel free to substitute any combination of dark chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, vanilla chips, peanut butter chips, etc.
• Vanilla baking chips: For best flavor, I recommend Ghirardelli vanilla chips.
• Coconut oil: Virgin or refined will work here
• peanuts: Dry roasted or regular salted
• candy corn: The candy corn plus peanuts delivers Butterfinger flavor
• Butterfinger bars: I used Fun-Sized bars, so save them from trick-or-treating or buy a bag. You’ll need 6-8 fun-sized bars or 2 full-sized bars

Procedure

1. Measure out chips and 10% of the weight of the chips in coconut oil. So for 320 grams (about 12 oz) chips, you’ll need 32 g (or about 1.2 oz) in coconut oil.
2. Melt milk chocolate and coconut oil and spread out on a Silpat-lined baking sheet.
3. Sprinkle liberally with chopped Butterfingers.
4. Chill in fridge for 30 minutes.
5. Melt vanilla chips and coconut and spread over the chocolate layer.
6. Sprinkle with peanuts and candy corn.
7. Chill for 3 hours.
8. Break or chop into pieces and store in the fridge.

Equipment You May Need

You will want a couple of microwave-safe bowls for melting your chocolate. I prefer glass bowls.

Line your pan/s with a silicone baking mat. This will work better than parchment, although you can also use parchment sheets if that’s what you have.

An offset spatula is the best tool I’ve found to spread out layers of chocolate without inadvertently dragging your knuckles through it!

This set of 3 offset spatulas will help you do everything from this job to icing a cake.

Tips for Success

Especially when using white chips, heat them in bursts on medium power, stirring between bursts. White chips are delicate and can burn and get clumpy if you’re not careful.

If you substitute candy melts or almond bark for the chips, you will NOT need to add the coconut oil to the mixture.

For best results, store these in the fridge, but allow them to come up to room temperature for a few minutes before serving. They won’t be quite so hard, and the flavor will bloom as the bark warms towards room temp.

Q & A

Serving Suggestions

Of course, you can just eat this straight up as candy. But sometimes you may want to serve it in a little bit different way.

Here are a few ideas:

• Chop it finely and use it as an ice cream or sundae topping.
• Stick shards into the top of a chocolate or white cake to make an easy Halloween cake.
• Stick a piece of Butterfinger bark into the top of homemade or storebought iced cupcakes for instant Halloween fun.
• Blend with chocolate ice cream and a little bit of milk to make a Butterfinger bark “concrete” or milkshake.
• Use them as “chips” for a Halloween party and scoop up some marshmallow fluff dip with them

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A Note About Measurements

NOTE: Most of my recipes are written by weight and not volume, even the liquids.

Even though I try to provide you with volume measurements as well, I encourage you to buy a kitchen scale for ease of measuring, accuracy, and consistency.

This is the scale I use, love, and recommend. If you’re unsure, please read my post about how to use a food scale.

Enter the Giveaway!

Welcome!!! It is almost Halloween which means it is time for this year’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek recipe and giveaway event!!

#HalloweenTreatsWeek is a yearly Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife  & its a creepy and haunting week-long event is filled with some amazingly wicked Halloween treats, recipes and some frightfully fun giveaways.

“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ‘tis near Halloween.”

For the 4th annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event we have 28 hauntingly talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week!

Follow the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media and look at the bottom of each post to see all of the Halloween recipes that we’re sharing!

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3 Piece Halloween Silicone Spatula Set

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Disclaimer: These posts and recipes are part of the week-long event, #HalloweenTreatsWeek but all opinions are 100% mine! We would like to Thank our amazing brand sponsors: Dixie Crystals that provided a prize pack for our giveaways and also sent some samples and products to the #HalloweenTreatsWeek bloggers to use in their recipes.