More Halloween treats! I'm a one-woman-crafting-cooking-runaway-train (in a good way); look out! It's two days before Halloween and the goodies are just flying out of my kitchen! I made some "Halloween Bark" with leftover white chocolate from another recipe. I kind of "winged it" with stuff I had on hand. The original recipe is from www.thecurvycarrot.com, and frankly, hers looks better (see photo above). I'm thinking my white chocolate version (pictured below) is super rich, but it's still pretty darn good!

Chocolate Halloween Bark

1 pound bittersweet chocolate chips

3 2.1-ounce Butterfinger candy bars, cut into irregular 1-inch pieces

3 1.4-ounce Heath toffee candy bars, cut into irregular 3/4-inch pieces

8 .55-ounce peanut butter cups, each cut into 8 wedges

1/4 cup honey-roasted peanuts

3 ounces high-quality white chocolate

Reese's Pieces

yellow and orange peanut M&Ms

Line baking sheet with foil.  Stir chocolate chips in heavy medium saucepan over low heat until melted and warm (not hot) to touch. Pour chocolate onto foil; spread to 1/4-inch thickness.  Sprinkle with Butterfinger candy, toffee, peanut butter cups and nuts, making sure all pieces touch melted chocolate to adhere.  Put white chocolate into heavy small saucepan.  Stir constantly over very low heat until chocolate is melted and warm (not hot) to touch.  Remove from heat.  Dip spoon into white chocolate and wave from side to side over bark, creating zig zag lines.  Scatter Reese's Pieces and M&Ms over top, making sure candy touches melted chocolate.  Chill bark until firm, about 30 minutes.  Slide foil with candy onto work surface and peel off foil.  Cut bark into irregular pieces. (I ate the small pieces that fell off during the "breaking into irregular pieces" part of the process!)

The "leftover" white chocolate was from this little endeavor called "Boo Cookies"; Nutter Butter cookies dipped in melted white chocolate (I used vanilla flavored almond bark usually used in candy making) with teeny-tiny mini chocolate chips for eyes. I made some for a party we are going to tonight, and some for our after-trick-or-treating open house on Halloween. Regan, who is 2 1/2, deemed them "nummy"! Indeed!