Chocolate and bacon? This recipe is ridiculous easy and so delicious. Serve it for those special get togethers or save it for your own pleasure.
Salted Caramel:
1 c. canned full-fat coconut milk
1 c. coconut sugar
1/4 t. sea salt
Salted Caramel Bacon Bark:
use only 1/2 batch Salted Caramel
6 oz. dark chocolate
4 strips crisply cooked bacon
Salted Caramel:
In a heavy-bottomed pot, add coconut milk, coconut sugar and salt. Whisk to combine ingredients, and turn on the heat. Bring to boil for 15 minutes, watching carefully so mixture doesn't boil over.
Reduce heat to low, and simmer 5 minutes, making sure it doesn't burn.
Wear gloves to pour the caramel into a small bowl, stirring periodically as it cools to room temperature.
If the caramel isn't thick when it reaches room temperature, pour it back into the pot and let simmer over the lowest heat possible another 3-5 minutes.
Again, wear gloves to pour caramel back into the small bowl, stirring occasionally until it reaches room temperature. Store covered at room temperature.
Salted Caramel Bacon Bark:
Make Salted Caramel recipe above and let it cool to almost room temperature.
Line an 8 x 8 inch dish with a piece of unbleached parchment paper large enough to cover the bottom and go up the sides of the dish. Pinch the corners to help it stay in place; set aside.
Over a double boiler, melt the chocolate; pour it into the prepared dish.
Allow chocolate to cool to room temperature on the counter, then place it in the freezer until hard.
Drizzle the caramel over the chocolate and sprinkle the top with crumbled crisp bacon.
Freeze the candy until it is hard enough to break into bark. It can then be stored in the refrigerator or freezer.
8 servings