Chocolate and Almond Hemp Bark Recipe
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I’ve been trying out some awesome recipes lately that include hemp as a main ingredient and have I got a whopper for you guys. This one is filled with good stuff…and by good stuff, I mean chocolate, and of course hemp! So if you’re ready for a dessert or a quick snack as you walk past the fridge now and then you will love this chocolate and almond hemp bark recipe.
You can print of the actual recipe below to keep for your files but here are a few pictures to give you some direction.
Here are all the ingredients you will need for this chocolate and almost bark.
- Organic Hemp Hearts
or Natural Hemp Hearts
- Sliced Almonds
Need 1 cup, 2 of these packages or 1 if you can get it in a larger size.
- Coconut Sugar (any sugar will do this is just my preference)
- 24 ounce bag of chocolate chips
I’ve never found an organic chocolate I’ve just loved and one that my kids would eat, but the Nestles Toll House semi-sweet morsels are tasty and the ingredients include sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, milk fat, soy lecithin and natural flavors. Not organic, but noting in there that I don’t know what it is so kudos to Nestles!
Start off with either a double boiler, or if you don’t own one (like me), just a pot filled with water and a glass bowl in it will work just fine. Start by melting the chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of coconut sugar together in the bowl. Stir until it’s all melted down and them dump in 1 cup of hemp hearts and 1 cup of almonds. Mix it all together until everything is coated.
Once you’re ingredients are good and mixed, spread the mixture out in a thin layer on a baking sheet covered in foil and sprayed with some non-stick spray. You can also use wax paper, but tin foil is what I had in my house. It worked great.
Stick the pan with the chocolate mixture in the refrigerator for about 2 hours until it’s cold and fairly hard. Remove it from the fridge and you should be able to lift the foil from the pan and the chocolate should peel right off the tin foil in one piece. Now comes the fun part! Start breaking up the chocolate pieces into random broken shapes. Don’t worry, nothing has to be perfect here.
Store your chocolate and almond hemp bark covered in foil or in some plastic-ware in the fridge to keep it cool and from melting. Enjoy at will!
- 1 Cup Organic Hemp Hearts or Natural Hemp Hearts
- 1/2 Cup Coconut Sugar
- 1 Cup Sliced Almonds
- 24 Ounce Package of Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Melt 24 ounces of chocolate chips in double boiler along with 1/2 cup of coconut sugar.
- Once melted pour in 1 cup of hemp hearts and 1 cup of almond slices. Mix until coated.
- Cover baking sheet with tin foil and lightly spray with non-stick spray.
- Spread the chocolate mixture onto the foil making a thin layer.
- Place baking pan in refrigerator for 2 hours or until chocolate is cold and hard.
- Remove chocolate from pan by lifting tinfoil and peeling it from the back of the chocolate.
- Break up the chocolate into random shapes pieces to make the bark.
- Store covered in the refrigerator.
About The Author
Misty Spears
Misty is a freelance writer and entrepreneur who loves to share information about industrial hemp to help spread awareness of its health benefits as well as review products so you can find out what's good and what's bad before spending money on them. She enjoys trying out new health conscious recipes and participates in online groups and networking to help drive support for industrial hemp.
Great recipe!! I’ll be giving this a go soon!
Awesome Rachael. You’ll love it. Thanks for leaving a comment today!
Thank you for sharing this recipe Misty. I am going to sound really ignorant now but I always thought hemp was a drug that hippies used !! Now I know LOL
Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. I could tell you a very funny story of my 16 year old son giving me hell one morning when he found a “bag of hemp” (was hemp hearts) on my counter. He couldn’t believe I could just leave it out in the open for him to find. It was quite funny, even though he had seen me eat it before, he never knew what it was. I can tell you he was fully educated on the differences of marijuana and hemp that day. Thanks for stopping by and so glad we could clear up it up for ya.
Wow! This looks utterly delicious! Thank you for sharing the recipe. Honestly, I have never heard of hemp hearts before, but a quick google search showed me how incredible they are, and good for you too! I will have to get to the store, and give this a go soon!
Another hemp convert! lol So happy you are gonna give it a try. I promise you won’t be disappointed. If you can’t find it local…or inexpensively, try out some of the links I provided above. My store was about $14-$15 per bag and I go through A LOT of hemp hearts.
Do you think I could use cacao powder and powdered stevia?
I’m sure you could. I actually almost went with stevia for this recipe, but the coconut sugar has this sort of “brown sugar” taste to it and I’m addicted to it. I use it for everything. It also is organic which I like to do what I can. I don’t have a recipe using cacao powder but Ill see what I can come up with. In short, I’m sure you could, but need to find a recipe to do it.
this is the second recipe In a day Iv read involving chocolate. Now i want some!
That’s because chocolate is good for you…at least it can be in moderation…with hemp in it!
Ok, off to Google where i can get hemp hearts in the UK – sounds lovely. I doubt a tray would last longer than 5 mins in this house though!
Hey Jan if you find a good supplier in the UK let me know and Ill share it with our mailing list. I’m sure there are some UK subscribers that would love to know a good place. Just send me a message on Facebook or use the contact page. Thanks!
will do 🙂
I’d just have to be careful with this one that I didn’t eat the whole batch – looks delicious 🙂
I brought 2-3 pieces in a sandwhich bag to work every day. That was my limit and most days I shared that. It’s chocolate but it’s really not something that you have to feel all that guilty over.