It’s difficult to do everything especially at the holidays. Having to create gifts or things for the schools’ bake sale or similar can go from being manageable at other times of the year to being unmanageable at the holidays. This super easy chocolate almond ginger bark recipe can be adapted to include candy canes instead of ginger or hazelnuts instead of almonds. This bark is easy to decorate for any holiday. Using premade chocolate or sugar letters you can press happy birthday messages or get well messages into a large block of chocolate and almonds.
The amount of pressure placed on everyone at the holidays is extraordinary. Those times when the school calls or a partner calls and explains that a gift or something home-made is needed that day can be the straw that breaks the camel‘s back. There are enough things happening right now in everyone’s lives that an extra thing to do can just be one thing too much. Recipes such as this chocolate almond bark make it easy to look like you made a lot of effort without making much effort at all. Tricks like this are important when were expected as women to not only do everything with work, but also with children, and with the school. Everyone expects women to know everything and do everything when really we are just as busy as everyone else.
Having chocolate chips in the cupboard as a staple helps ensure you can have something like this ready quickly. Cupcakes or brownies involve baking and a lot of preparation whereas this chocolate almond bark recipe is actually super easy to make and can be ready in as little as half an hour. It’s not too difficult to create this recipe and it’s immensely rewarding to create something from scratch that is as god as something store-bought.
It’s important to have easy recipes like this up your sleeve at this time of the year when as women were expected to know what to make when to make it and how to make it for every holiday meal. The fun thing about this recipe is that it can be easily customised. Got a birthday you forgot or need a quick holiday treat? This chocolate almond bark recipe can be adapted for any occasion. Buy some easy sugar decorations for any holiday such as a birthday, Valentine’s Day, or Christmas, and press the sugar decorations into the chocolate while still warm. Sugar decorations are easy to buy and do last a long time so you ca have them handily available and then just make the bark when the time is right.
Right now at the holidays it’s a stressful time for everyone to make everything perfect – from decorating the inside and outside of the home to creating perfect gifts and experiences.. There is a lot of pressure on everyone to make the holidays perfect. This chocolate almond bark is best when it’s not perfect and it’s so easy to make not perfect. Also it’s easy to add some personalisation to this gift and make it exceptionally special for the recipient. Make some and give it away but always keep a little bit for yourself!