Name: Halloween Candy Bark
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 70 min
Ingredients: 3¼ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips; 3 tbsp caramel syrup; ½ cup candy corn; ¼ cup pretzels (roughly chopped or left whole); ½ cup Reese's (roughly chopped); ½ cup M&M's; 2 tbsp candy eyeballs; Halloween sprinkles (optional)

It is so quick and easy to make this fun and festive Halloween Bark. In 10 minutes you'll have a creepy confection complete with eyeballs that stare back at you!

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Table of Contents

Why We Love This Halloween Bark Recipe
Ingredients
How to Make Halloween Bark
Tips
Storage tips
Halloween Candy Bark Recipe

It only takes minutes to make this easy Halloween Candy Bark. No baking or fancy equipment is required. This is such a simple treat to whip up for a group of trick-or-treaters and is also perfect for using up leftover Halloween candy.

Why We Love This Halloween Bark Recipe

Quick and easy to make.
Melt in your mouth Halloween candy bark can be customized with your favorite colors and candy.
Makes a sweet, festive dessert for a Halloween party.
Fun for kids to customize by using their favorite candies and cookies.
A Halloween treat everyone will love!
It’s a great way to use up any leftover candy from your Halloween adventures.

Ingredients

Semi-sweet chocolate chips: You could try this with milk or dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, or butterscotch chips. Use whatever is your favorite flavor!
Caramel syrup: I used normal ice cream caramel syrup, but you can use whatever type of caramel sauce you might have on hand.
Candy corn: Make sure to get the small candy corn, not the fancy or bigger ones.
Pretzels: You could also use potato chips in addition to, or instead of, the pretzels.
Reese’s: Substitute Reese’s Pieces instead to skip the need to chop up the cups. This can be especially helpful if you have an issue with melty Reese’s cups and don’t have time to cool or freeze them to make them easier to chop.
M&Ms: Use your favorite type of M&M here. To keep with the spirit of Halloween, I used a ghouls M&Ms mix. You can also simply pick out the orange and brown colored M&Ms to use for the topping.
Candy eyeballs
Halloween sprinkles (optional)

How to Make Halloween Bark

It is so quick and easy to make this festive Halloween candy bark. Simply grab your favorite candy and scatter it on melted chocolate, let it chill in the fridge, and serve it to all of your costumed “ghosts and goblins”. Be sure to see our helpful tips below!

Melt chocolate chips and spread evenly onto a parchment paper lined sheet pan.
Drizzle the caramel over the melted chocolate.
Decorate with your favorite candy pieces and refrigerate until the chocolate is hardened.
Lift parchment paper from the sheet pan and cut the chocolate bark into pieces.
Pro Tip: You should be able to gently pull the parchment paper off of the back of the bark. This is easiest when the parchment paper is draped over the sides of the sheet pan.
Serve cold and enjoy.

Tips

The chocolate will start melting relatively fast once it’s at room temperature. Place it on cold plates, or make sure it is in a relatively cool place, as you are serving.
This is a very sweet treat so adding some extra sea salt on top will help to balance it out if you don’t have as much of a sweet tooth.
I recommend drizzling the caramel in some fun swirls that are evenly distributed throughout the chocolate.
Use a spatula to evenly spread the chocolate syrup across the sheet pan.
Add more or less of each topping, depending on your preferences.
Use the parchment paper to lift up the chocolate and make it easier to cut.
A double boiler uses a small amount of water in a small saucepan/pot, with a larger glass or metal bowl on top. The boiling water will heat up the bowl slowly, so that chocolate can be easily melted in the top bowl, with no danger of burning. It’s the easiest way to melt chocolate, especially for those of us that struggle to melt chocolate in the microwave.

Storage tips

To Store: Once the chocolate is set completely and broken into pieces, store your Halloween candy bark in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 2-3 weeks. If you prefer to leave the Halloween candy bark on the counter at room temperature it will last for about 5 days.
To Freeze: Place pieces of Halloween candy bark in a plastic freezer bag and place it in the freezer. It will last a long time; maybe even until next Halloween!

If you love fun chocolate recipes, be sure to check out our Copycat Cosmic Brownies.

5 from 1 vote

Halloween Candy Bark

Author — Jake

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It is so quick and easy to make this fun and festive Halloween Bark. In 10 minutes you'll have a creepy confection complete with eyeballs that stare back at you!

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Prep Time 10

Chill Time 1

Total Time 1 10

Ingredients

▢ 3¼ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
▢ 3 tbsp caramel syrup
▢ ½ cup candy corn
▢ ¼ cup pretzels roughly chopped or left whole
▢ ½ cup Reese's roughly chopped
▢ ½ cup M&M's
▢ 2 tbsp candy eyeballs
▢ Halloween sprinkles optional

Instructions

Line a large sheet pan with parchment paper and set aside.
Melt the semi-sweet chocolate chips, either in a double boiler or in the microwave in 20-30 second increments, stirring between each set.
Once the chocolate is completely melted, pour it onto the lined sheet pan and spread it evenly to the edges.
Drizzle the caramel syrup over the melted chocolate.
Sprinkle the candy corn, pretzels, Reese’s, M&Ms, candy eyeballs, and Halloween sprinkles, optional, all over the chocolate.
Place the sheet pan in the refrigerator for one hour or until the chocolate is completely hardened.
Remove the bark from the sheet pan by lifting the parchment paper out. You should be able to gently pull the parchment paper off of the back of the bark. This is easiest when the parchment paper is draped over the sides of the sheet pan.
Cut the bark into irregular shapes and serve cold.

Notes

Storage :

To Store: Once the chocolate is set completely and broken into pieces, store your Halloween candy bark in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 2-3 weeks. If you prefer to leave the Halloween candy bark on the counter at room temperature it will last for about 5 days.
To Freeze: Place pieces of Halloween candy bark in a plastic freezer bag and place it in the freezer. It will last a long time; maybe even until next Halloween!

Tips:

The chocolate will start melting relatively fast once it’s at room temperature. Place it on cold plates, or make sure it is in a relatively cool place, as you are serving.
This is a very sweet treat so adding some extra sea salt on top will help to balance it out if you don’t have as much of a sweet tooth.
I recommend drizzling the caramel in some fun swirls that are evenly distributed throughout the chocolate.
Use a spatula to evenly spread the chocolate syrup across the sheet pan.
Add more or less of each topping, depending on your preferences.
Use the parchment paper to lift up the chocolate and make it easier to cut.
A double boiler uses a small amount of water in a small saucepan/pot, with a larger glass or metal bowl on top. The boiling water will heat up the bowl slowly, so that chocolate can be easily melted in the top bowl, with no danger of burning. It’s the easiest way to melt chocolate, especially for those of us that struggle to melt chocolate in the microwave.