Reindeer & snowman chocolate bark

Get the kids involved in making some tasty Christmas treats like our fabulously festive chocolate bark. Great to give as a gift as well

100g milk chocolate, chopped

100g dark chocolate, chopped

7 red Smarties 8-10 small pretzels 22 white mini marshmallows

1 red jelly shoelace, cut into lengths sprinkles and stars black food writing pen

1

Line a baking tin with baking parchment. Heat both chocolates in separate bowls in the microwave in 30-sec blasts, or over pans of simmering water. Pour the dark chocolate into the baking tin, then pour the milk chocolate on top in a trail. Spread the chocolate out to make a reasonably thick slab. 2 Arrange the red smarties over the slab at intervals – these are the reindeer noses. Cut a marshmallow in half and press above the smarties to make eyes. Snap a pretzel in half for each set of antlers, getting rid of any excess pretzel, then push into the chocolate near the noses. 3

To make the snowmen, arrange the rest of the marshmallows in lines of three. Use pieces of pretzel for the arms and a piece of shoelace for the scarf. Then add the stars and sprinkles, and leave the chocolate to set completely. 4

Once the chocolate is hard, use an icing pen or small brush dipped in black food colouring to add pupils to the reindeer eyes, and faces and buttons for the snowmen. Use a knife to cut the bark into pieces around the reindeer and snowmen. To give them as gifts, put in cellophane bags and tie with a pretty ribbon.