Halloween Bark

This Halloween Bark is the easiest sweet treat you’ll ever make: melt chocolate (you can even do this in the microwave), sprinkle with candy, eyeballs or sprinkles, let cool, and it’s ready!

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This Halloween Bark Is Foolproof!

If you’re looking for the easiest, most foolproof recipe to make Halloween bark, you’ve come to the right place. Halloween Recipe Headquarters, you could say.

This site has been known for Halloween desserts and savory treats for many years, with over 800,000 people coming here for spooky recipes.

Whether you want to make this Halloween candy bark recipe with candy corn and sprinkles, a bunch of candy eyeballs, chopped up leftover candy from trick-or-treating, nuts, pretzels, cookies, seeds, or just about anything else, this recipe will have you in and out of the kitchen with the cutest, sweetest treat to eat in no time.

How To Make Halloween Candy Bark

1. MELT. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or microwave, stirring frequently until it is just melted and smooth.
2. POUR. Pour the melted chocolate on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Using a knife or offset spatula, spread the chocolate until it is in an even layer about 1/4- to 1/2-inch thick (this is pretty flexible, so don’t worry about the exact thickness).
3. SPRINKLE. Immediately sprinkle the toppings over the melted chocolate.
4. FINISH. Allow the bark to harden at room tempreature for at least 2 hours or until it is firm enough to break into pieces, or transfer to the fridge and chill 30 minutes until hard. Break into pieces with your hands or cut with a sharp knife, then store at room temperature in an airtight container.

Melt The Chocolate On The Stove Or In The Microwave

There’s also flexibility with how you can melt the chocolate for this Halloween bark recipe. We recommend melting the chocolate in a double boiler.

Nobody owns a real double boiler, so just use Bon Appetit’s instructions for how to make a double boiler with a pot and a bowl. It works like a charm!

The double boiler method gives you more control over how the chocolate is melting (because it’s easier to keep an eye on it) and it makes it MUCH less likely that you’ll over cook the chocolate and ruin it.

However, if you’d like to use the microwave for this Halloween candy bark, place the chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl or large glass measuring cup and microwave it in 15 second intervals until it’s smooth, stirring between each 15 second interval.

If you get to the point where you think it’s almost all melted, just keep stirring until it’s smooth instead of microwaving it again. Chances are, it just needs a few more stirs, and you’re ready to make Halloween chocolate bark. You don’t want to overcook it!

Halloween Candy Bark Recipe Toppings

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To top this fun Halloween treat, we used our favorite Halloween sprinkles, candy corn, and then additional candy eyeballs (there were some eyeballs in the sprinkles mix, but we wanted even more Halloween fun).

Halloween Bark – Other Topping Ideas

The variety of toppings you can add to the top of this Halloween bark recipe are basically endless! Some other ideas to top this Halloween chocolate bark that would be delicious are:

• pretzels
• leftover Halloween candy, like M&Ms, Reese’s pieces or candy bars (chop them into bite-sized pieces, if necessary)
• nuts, like almonds, peanuts or shelled pistachios
• dried fruit, like cranberries or chopped dried apricots
• broken up potato chips
• Oreo cookies, especially Halloween-colored ones (chop them up a bit)
• flaky sea salt
• mini marshmallows
• gummy worms
• granola
• broken up graham crackers
• flaked or shredded coconut
• roasted pumpkin seeds (pepitas)