How To Make Christmas Peppermint Bark

Lorraine Hooper: Hi! I’m Lorraine Hooper from Lola Cookies and Treats in Leesburg Virginia better known as Lola. This is my bakery, welcome to it. This is where we make all kinds of fresh bake all scratch goodies everyday. And today we’re going to be making chopped peppermint bark just in time for the holidays. I walked you through every step you need to do in order to make this from putting together our ingredients in the mixer, preparing them in the cooking base, baking them and putting on our nice chocolate topping and the broken bits of candy cane to make it just like beautiful and cutting them into bars. So, before we get started you’re going to need a few tools. You will need a nice sharp knife for cutting, a spatula to lift them out of the pan when we’re done. Another nice rubber spatula for spreading the chocolate, you will need your measuring tools tablespoons and teaspoons. We have four sticks of butter, we a cup and half of granulated sugar and one cup of brown sugar. Four tablespoons of water, four teaspoons of vanilla extract in a separate bowl of three cups of flour, had teaspoons and half of baking soda. One teaspoon salt, one cup of cocoa American style cocoa, and some melted chocolate chips, three cups of melted chocolate chips. Those together will make the base and for the trample need an additional three cups of chocolate chips not melted. And 10 ounces or roughly a cup and half of broken bits of candy canes which I break in a food processor. But if you don’t have one or you prefer you can also break those up into bits by putting them in a bag and just smashing out with the hammer, with the rolling pin with whatever you feel like smashing it. I have 20 years of baking experience and have one multiple prices for my bake goods including critics choice awards for tasting chocolate desserts this year at a regional event called Chocolate Galore and Multiple Blue Ribbons at the Virginia’s State Fair. So, if you’re ready there is a couple of safety things that we need to bare in mind before we get started. When you’re working in a kitchen you always need to be safe, cautious and you need to be very clean. Baring at mind you should roll up your sleeves, pull back your hair, wash your hands and we can get started making peppermint bark.