Game Day Football Chocolate Bark

Serve up this easy and f oo tball chocolate bark. Field goal pretzels, sprinkles for the crowd, coconut for grass, and a football lace made with white chocolate. This is the no bake bowl dessert to whip up.

Kids and adults will gobble up this chocolate bark piece by piece. Within 10 minutes you have your chocolate bark setting up and almost ready to cut into and serve up. A football dessert you got to try.

Or if you are looking for a football themed birthday party idea, this is a fun dessert as well. A football party that kids will go nuts for. The goal posts and grass are our favorite parts.

Why Make This Chocolate Bark

Easy – So simple to whip it, it makes it a no-brainer. Give it a try and let us know for yourself what you think of this no bake chocolate bark.

Change it up – Use your usual teams colors in terms of candy melts to add a personal touch. We wanted basic colors for a fun look.

No Bake Dessert – No need to turn on the oven. You can warm the chocolate in the microwave so you don’t even have to fuss with the stovetop if you don’t want. This no bake football dessert is always a hit.

• Chocolate Bark
• White Chocolate Bark
• Sprinkles
• Pretzel Sticks
• Coconut
• Green Food Coloring

Variations to Dessert

• You can use different colored chocolate to showcase a specific team.
• Temper chocolate in replace of almond bark or candy wafer melts if you prefer.
• Skip the sprinkles for the showcase of a crowd.
• Pipe on field goals instead of pretzels.
• Add on pieces of tootsie rolls shaped like footballs with an icing white lace for footballs.
• Etc.

How to Make

Step 1: Start by melting your almond bark in the microwave in 20-30 second increments. Once fully melted pour in a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Step 2: With a spoon or spatula spread it out evenly.

Step 3: Break pretzel sticks and make the field goals. The sides will be shorter and the stick at bottom we used to make a bit longer. Randomly place these on the bark.

Step 4: In a bowl, add your coconut, and a few drop of green food coloring. Stir and mix until it reaches desired color. You can add more color if you need.

Step 5: Drop some on the bark all over, creating clumps of grass.

Step 6: Heat up some white chocolate almond bark and pipe on football laces. A line then 2-3 short lines across it. We used a bottle to squirt on.

Step 7: Next, add on some sprinkles to look like a crowd in the bleachers.

Step 8: Let all your chocolate set up then cut into pieces or break and serve.

Storage

Store your chocolate bark in an airtight container on the counter for 1 week. The pretzels will be the first to go stale on this recipe.

You can freeze the chocolate bark if you don’t plan to eat it right away. The pretzels won’t taste too good once thawed, they tend to go stale. That is the only thing to be aware of.

We would only make this party dessert up to 24 hours in advance of when you plan to serve it up. A fun birthday party football theme that kids and adults can enjoy.

Expert Tips

• Make sure to have items ready, as the chocolate bark will set up fast.
• Gently press the sprinkles and coconut into the chocolate to ensure it sticks to the chocolate.
• When mixing up the coconut use a throw away container or glass, as it can stain the container.

Practical notes

Here are some questions that are asked when making this football chocolate bark. It is an easy dessert and a fun dessert idea for your next game day event.

What is almond bark?

Almond bark is used a lot when making desserts. It sets up quickly giving you a nice firm dessert. Almond bark is made with vegetable fat, so it hardens quickly.

What is the difference between chocolate and almond bark?

Chocolate is real chocolate that you have to temper properly for it to set up. Almond bark is a confectionery dessert that is not made with real chocolate. That is why you will find the flavor between the two is different. Almond sets up within 5 minutes or so.

What can we use instead of almond bark?

Candy melts can be used. Or add 1 teaspoon of shortening in with chocolate chips or baking chocolate when you warm it up. Or learnu003ca href=u0022 target=u0022_blanku0022 rel=u0022noreferrer noopeneru0022u003e how to temper chocolateu003c/au003e to go that router.

Why is it called chocolate bark?

Chocolate bark got its name by when you have a finished product of a chocolate bark it mimics bark off a tree. This will depend of course on colors of chocolate used and toppings you sprinkle on.

Ingredients

Makes 24 oz

• 1 package chocolate flavored almond bark, 24 ounces
• 1/4 cup white almond bark
• 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut
• 1-3 drops of green food coloring
• Sprinkles – optional
• 12-15 Small Pretzel sticks

Method

1. In a small bowl add your coconut and food coloring. Mix well to make the coconut turn green. If need add more food coloring. Set aside.
2. Melt your brown chocolate flavored almond bark in the microwave with heat cycles of 20-30 seconds. Stir between each cycle.
3. Once done pour the chocolate on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Spread it out evenly to a layer.
4. Now break your small pretzel sticks to make football posts. Do two smaller pretzels on the side, with one on bottom connecting the two sticks. Then place a longer stick in center to make a "Y" shaped style post.
5. Next take the green coconut and sprinkle areas with the green coconut to mimic grass.
6. Then sprinkle on the sprinkles to look like a crowd. We put the chocolate around each field goal post.
7. Then heat up white almond bark and pipe a straight line with 2-3 short lines going the other way to make it look like football lace.
8. Let the football chocolate bark set up, then break or cut apart, and enjoy.
9. Enjoy and serve! if you have extra store in a bag or airtight container.

Kitchen notes

Chocolate

– You can use candy melts if you want or even baking chocolate. You just need to temper the chocolate or add in a teaspoon of shortening to the chocolate. Coconut – For the grass we used a sweetened coconut, you are welcome to use unsweetened if you prefer. Pretzel Sticks – Pretzel sticks are what we used to make the field goals. Feel free to use other style of straight line cookies or chips if you prefer. We love the salty component it adds.