Teacher Christmas Gifts {Chocolate Bark}

Last night was the last Wednesday night of church until the new year.  And I like to do little something for each of the church teachers and nursery workers for Christmas and other times throughout the year.  But Christmas can be a fairly tight time financially speaking, so I wanted to do something affordable that would work for men or women since we have both working with the kids at our church.

I decided to go with a super easy Chocolate Bark that I saw Sandra Lee make on her show eons ago.  The recipe is the below and it could not be easier.

White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Bark

2 cups of semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups of white chocolate chips
2/3 cup of chopped macadamia nuts (or almonds)

Line a cookie sheet with wax paper.  Melt all but 1/4 cup of the semisweet chocolate, pour it on the prepared cookie sheet and spread to cover the entire surface in a thin layer.  Melt all but 1/4 cup of the white chocolate chips and drizzle it over the layer of semisweet chocolate on the cookie sheet.  Use a toothpick, skewer, or knife to swirl the white chocolate into the semisweet for the marbled effect.  Sprinkle the reserved 1/4 cups of semisweet and white chocolate chips and the nuts over the melted chocolate.  Lightly press the chips into the melted chocolate and then place the cookie sheet in the fridge to harden.  Cut or break into bite-sized pieces, and package for gift giving.

This is a picture of the finished product before I broke it into pieces.

And this is how it looks all packaged up.  I found these sweet printable tags here.  This one says 'friend' but the link has tags for 'neighbor' and 'teacher.'

I will confess that I have nibbled on some of the left over bark since making it, and it makes a really yummy little snack.