Lime and Coconut White Chocolate Bark

I've never really good at baking. I'm one of those people that likes to throw things in a pot and hope for the best. For regular cooking that's perfect. That's typically where I get my best ideas. For baking it leaves me with tons of sunken dense cakes and salty cookies. The only thing I can bake well without measuring is cornbread. And that's only because you really can't go wrong with cornbread. Just put enough baking powder in it to rise and there you go.

I went on a tangent.


So I don't bake. But I do like sweets so I decided to try some bark which is ridiculously easy to make and such a great base to really get creative. I wanted something that reminded me of the tropics (because I really need a vacation from this life of mine right about now). Consider this my ode to the summer past and sorely missed on this cool October Saturday.

Lime and Coconut White Chocolate Bark

Ingredients
-1/2 bag of white chocolate chips
-Unsweetened coconut flakes
-Sliced Almonds
-1 lime juiced
-Zest from one lime


Directions
Melt the white chocolate chips in a double boiler (or a bowl over a pot of boiling water) until completely melted.

Take off of the heat and stir in the lime juice and lemon zest until completely mixed. Your mixture might look a little pasty and no longer smooth and creamy. I'm sure it has something to do with the lime juice mixing with the milk solids and cocoa butter. But it'll be fine.

After, mix in the almonds and coconut.

Pour the mixture into a shallow pan covered with wax or parchment paper. Leave in refrigerator for at least one hour before cutting and serving.

Get creative with your mixtures. Try some pumpkin or chai-spiced bark for a more fall flavor. Use milk or dark chocolate instead of white. I'll put up more bark combos in the next week since it is so easy to make and really great to have on hand. But please don't wait on me to do some experimenting of your own!

I've been gone for a minute.

If you've been wondering what's been keeping me from posting I'll tell you. Life has been keeping me from posting. Not to say that this somehow isn't a part of my life. I've just been so distracted with everything that doesn't seem to quite be going right that I haven't given this blog as much thought as I should. But I'm back now. I'll also try to blog once a week. So yeah. Sorry for the absence if you've been reading.