{"id":4612,"date":"2018-08-05T06:56:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T06:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2018-08-05T06:56:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T06:56:52","slug":"how-to-make-peppermint-bark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/how-to-make-peppermint-bark\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Peppermint Bark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/How-to-Make-Peppermint-Bark-782x1024.gif\" alt=\"Bunner's Bake Shop Cookbook\" width=\"702\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/How-to-Make-Peppermint-Bark-782x1024.gif 782w, https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/How-to-Make-Peppermint-Bark-229x300.gif 229w, https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/How-to-Make-Peppermint-Bark-768x1006.gif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/>Strips of the outermost layer of the peppermint tree? No. The sound a dog makes after he\u2019s just brushed his teeth? Nope! What we\u2019re talking about is the timeless combination of chocolate and peppermint, and let me assure you, making this recipe is so delicious and simple, it\u2019s almost like cheating.<\/p>\n<p>I have been making this holiday treat for as long as I can remember, and continue to have requests for it every year. If you\u2019re in a last-minute pickle about what to bring to the next holiday potluck, or if you want a thoughtful handmade gift for your Secret Santa, this one\u2019s for you. While I was in university (and my pocketbook was extremely lean), I still tried to buy the very best chocolate I could find for my bark. It\u2019s the ingredient this recipe hinges on. If you can\u2019t find dairy-free white chocolate, use semi-sweet chocolate in its place. If you are using chocolate chips instead of chopped chocolate, you\u2019ll need about 2\u2154 cups of each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strips of the outermost layer of the peppermint tree? No. The sound a dog makes after he\u2019s just brushed his teeth? Nope! What we\u2019re talking about is the timeless combination of chocolate and peppermint, and let me assure you, making this recipe is so delicious and simple, it\u2019s almost like cheating. I have been making<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gluten-free"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/How-to-Make-Peppermint-Bark.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9MCKj-1co","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/recipe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}