Melting Snowman Bark

Here is a very easy, fast, and fun candy idea - I made this for Dave to take to one of his ukulele group get-togethers and it literally only took minutes to make!

Just melt white or semi-sweet chocolate chips according to the package instructions, then thinly spread on a piece of non-stick foil or parchment paper. Very quickly add the snowman parts - really, you do need to work quickly as the chocolate sets up fast. Tip: have all your add-ons ready to go and have a good idea how you want to lay them out - you can keep them in a somewhat snowman shape like they would melt, or scatter them all around. Another thing I learned is to only melt half a bag of chips at a time - I did the white chocolate first and melted the entire bag at once, I almost didn't get all the pieces in place before the chocolate hardened. I melted 1/2 of the semi-sweet bag and added the snowman bits, and then repeated with the other half. Much easier.

For the white bark I used 1/2 mini reeses peanut butter cups for the hats, candy eyes, orange sprinkle for the nose, red hot buttons, pretzel sticks for arms.

For the semi-sweet one: I added mini marshmallows, snowflake sprinkles, and sprinkled coarse white sugar over the whole thing in addition to the reeses, candy eyes, orange sprinkle noses, pretzel arms and red hot buttons.

Once the chocolate is hard, break into pieces or leave it in a whole sheet and let people break it apart themselves.

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