Chocolate Hazelnut Bark

You can buy crystallized ginger at your grocery store, I bought mine at Stop N' Shop it was in the produce section in the nut section. If you don't want to crack all the hazelnuts which I found really hard to shell and get the skins off, again you can buy hazelnuts at Stop N' Shop already chopped in the baking section you'll just have to pay a bit more. I really like the recipe, and plan on making it for Christmas gifts for my aunts.

How do you crystallize ginger?

DEVINE! I am not a big fan of dark chocolate, but this hit the spot quite nicely!!! I found the hazelnuts were a pain to take the skins off, so I left them on. I did add 2T toffee crunch to the mix and...like I said....devine!!! I served this with a coconut mango serbet that is on this site! I thought the ginger was a beautiful touch...enough to give the bark some zip. The only thing I could say that was negative about this recipe is that 1)it is not cheap to make up...and 2) even "eye balling" the amount of fruit I got out in bulk, I had enough fruit to make up another recipe. My bad....but did I say this was DEVINE!!! Now to keep the "paws" off so there will at least be something for dinner!!!

I made this a long time ago and forgot to rate it until I saw it on the main site. I loved it. I crystallized my own ginger but I'm sure it would be fine with store bought. I made it exactly as written and it was a great snack. If you're not used to the ginger flavor it might take a few bites but then you're hooked.

This was a very good and interesting mix on traditional chocolate/nut bark. The recipe calls for semi-sweet chocolate so it is going to be a little bitter. However, it goes so well with the sweetness of the toasted hazelnuts and dried cherries. This was super easy and well recieved in my holiday cookie tray.