Candied Pecan Chocolate Bark
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- Total Time
- 30mins
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- Serves
- 8
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- Calories
- 380
Chocolate bark is quick and simple to make and give as gifts, here’s a candied pecan and chocolate version. Adding a pinch of sea salt at the end is recommended but entirely optional.
recipe updated Oct 20, 2025
Ingredients
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- Dark chocolate
- 350 g
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- Water
- 3 tablespoons
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- Caster sugar
- 50 g
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- Coarse sea salt
- as needed
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- Pecan halves
- 120 g
Tools
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Oven
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Cooking Chef XL
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Baking tray - large
Step preview
- Preheat the oven - 160ºC
- Grease baking trays and line with parchment paper
- Add pecans to one of the baking trays and spread them out
- Roast until light golden - 10 minutes, 160°C
- Remove from the oven and set aside
- Pour the water into the appliance bowl first, then add the sugar, fit the splashguard
- Heat until the sugar has dissolved - 1 minute 30 seconds, 160°C, speed Off
- Cook until a caramel has formed - 8 minutes, 180°C, speed Off
- Then add the roasted nuts and stir with a spatula until evenly coated
- Quickly transfer the nuts onto the baking tray and let cool completely
- Once cooled, coarsely chop and set aside
- Clean the appliance bowl and fit the Creaming Beater
- Add chocolate into the appliance bowl, fit the splashguard
- Heat until melted - 10 minutes, 60°C, speed Stir 1
- Pour the melted chocolate onto the second baking tray and spread out evenly into a large rectangle
- Scatter the chopped nuts over the chocolate
- Sprinkle lightly with salt
- Let set at room temperature, then break into pieces
- Serve