Mint Oreo Bark is my husband’s absolute favorite holiday treat. It is only four ingredients and is always the first to go on dessert plates!
This will quickly become a family favorite in your house too!
This Mint Oreo Chocolate Bark is always on our list of treats to make around the holiday season. This is a recipe that I dreamt up in the early days of blogging. It was meant to be reminiscent of a shake that Nathan loved from his favorite ice cream place.
I must have hit the nail on the heat, because it is favorite treat of all time. He requests that I make a double batch so that we have plenty to keep even after making treat boxes for friends and neighbors.
He’s not wrong, this easy bark recipe is delicious and addictive.
How to make Mint Oreo Chocolate Bark
As mentioned above, there are only four ingredients to this easy treat. Check out the full measurements and directions in the recipe card below.
- Prepare the Oreos: Break them up into small chunks. This is easy to just do with your hands, no need to break out the food processor.
- Melt the white chocolate: More on this below with tips and tricks.
- Add in color and flavor: We Are going to ad din some green food coloring and mint extract.
- Spread it and let it set up: This bark doesn’t take long to set up, so minimal patience is required.
- Break it up and enjoy!
Melting White Chocolate
The only tricky part of this recipe might be the melting of the white chcolate chips. Occasionally, if white chocolate is overheated or gets water in it, it can seize up. In other words it goes from being smooth and luscious to being rough and hard to work with.
Here are some tips and tricks to keep your white chocolate happy.
- Follow the directions on the package. This will be your best bet at making this turn out well.
- Stir like you’ve never stirred before. If there are still lumps in your chocolate, resist putting it back in the microwave before stirring REALLY hard. It likely just needs a little more stirring and not more melting.
- Melt in the microwave instead of on the stove top. If you use a double boiler there is much higher risk of moisture getting into the chocolate and making it seize.
What to do if your chocolate does seize?
If you do everything right above and your chocolate still seizes it, you can fix that really easily. Just add a little vegetable shortening, stirring it in really well. It should help fix the situation.
Mint vs. Peppermint Extract
This recipe is technically called Mint Oreo Bark. So, we should probably use mint extract. I will tell you that I have made this recipe with both and both are delicious.
That being said, I know there are some people that really prefer one over the other. So you may want to check with who you are making it for.
Mint Oreo Bark
Ingredients
- 1/2 of a 15.5 oz package of regular Oreos about 20 cookies
- 24 oz bag of white morsels
- 1/4 to 1/2 tsp of mint extract depending on how minty you like it
- green food coloring
Instructions
- Break the Oreos into a bowl.
- Melt the morsels according to the directions on the bag.
- Quickly add the mint and food coloring. Then stir in the Oreos.
- Pour the mixture into a wax paper lined pan. Put it into the freezer for two hours.
- Break it up and enjoy!
Recipe Video
Becky says
Have you ever used almond bark?
Becky, I have friends who swear by it, but I’m too lazy to chop it up, lol :)
Lisa says
You don’t have to chop up almond bark. You can melt the squares whole, in a glass microwave safe bowl. I have a home business selling cake pops and do this all the time. Hope that helps! :) (and this mint oreo bark recipe looks awesome btw…can’t wait to try it!)
Peggy Ward says
I use the white or choc. almond bark and melt it in microwave. I do it for a min. , and stop and stir , It melts just fine. I would also add my mint to it and stir it before melting. I make my peanut butter crackers like that too. Always melt choc. bark in microwave.
Mary says
Can you use Nestles mint chocolate chips in stead of the plain white chips & extract?
I’m guessing that it will totally work Mary, but it will be different. Also, the bark might be a little melty when you hold it whereas with the white chocolate it won’t.
tania says
they also make colored white chocolate, you can get yellow, green, red, pink, blue. might be easier to get the green and not mess with the coloring :) going to try this for my Chirstmas baskets this year. thanks for the idea
Millie says
I think it would be easier to just use green melting chocolate. It does come in different colors.
I personally like the taste of the chocolate morsels better button each their own :)
Annie says
The mint extract caused my chocolate to seize up and became unworkable. Would not make this again. Yummy idea though.
Annie, I talk a lot in the post about chocolate seizing, and I’ve made this recipe more times than I can count. If you want to give it another go, I would try microwaving (short intervals on half power) the chocolate instead of the double burner method, and if it still seizes, you could try adding some shortening.
Wendy D. says
Use gel food coloring; tint the shortening first.
Lisa says
This is another great recipe from you. I love your recipes because there are never any unexpected issues. I made several of your fudge recipes last Christmas and have been collecting more all year. I plan to dazzle friends and family this holiday season! Thanks so much.
Lisa, you totally made my Monday, thank you!
Lynn Shaffer says
Hi. I have a question about the mint bark. I would like to know if you can use mint oreo’s instead of the regular ones and can chocolate morsels be used instead of white ones?
thank you
If you wanted to make it with chocolate, I would use almond bark and not chocolate chips. Chocolate chips don’t firm up the same way white chips do. I haven’t tried it with the Mint Oreos. I am sure it would be delicious, but I would still keep in the mint extract.
Kathleen says
Hi, Lisa
What an adorable recipe for Mint Oreo Bark; it looks so yummy. I am planning to make the ”candy bark”. Although, I have decided not to add the food coloring. I will be picking up the Oreo cookies today. Have a Merry Christmas and many blessings to you and your family. ~ Kathleen
Jan Schneider says
Delicious – as you wrote it! My family loves this. Thank You! And it’s pretty!
Oh this makes me so happy.
Barbara Gregorie, Jr says
In the recipe it calls for white morsels (which I bought). As i was rereading the directions it talks about white chocolate. Are they the same? I hate to mess up my first batch by using the wrong thing. HELP!
They are the same thing! Sorry, I use them interchangeably in my brain, but I should be more clear.