Screw Folgers, eating this is the best part of waking up:
One of my favorite things to snack on lately have been chocolate covered coffee beans. It’s coffee, it’s chocolate—what’s not to love? I though about how I could make an at-home version for less that’s just as good and settled on this bark recipe. I couldn’t help myself from eating it piece by piece as I was making it; I’m still a little buzzed from all that dessert. Best of all, it’s 3 simple ingredients! Yes, 3! I urge you to make this for the coffee addict in your life; they’ll love you until they crash.
Espresso Chocolate Bark
Ingredients:
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1 bag(12oz) semi-sweet chocolate chips
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1/2 cup whole coffee beans(most grocery stores let you buy these in bulk)
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2 tablespoons coarse cane sugar
Melt down the chocolate chips and lay a piece of parchment paper on a baking tray. Spread out the chocolate to be about 1/2 an inch thick. Sprinkle on the coffee beans evenly and press them into the hot chocolate gently.
Lightly sprinkle a layer of sugar over the chocolate while it is still melted. don’t worry about even layering since most of it will shake off when it’s dried. Just make sure to cover all of the chocolate.
You can either let the chocolate harden at room temperature or speed the process up by putting it in a refrigerator. When it’s hardened tilt the large piece of chocolate to shake off all the excess sugar. Break the chocolate into single-sized chunks.
These are just as good as any chocolate covered coffee beans. I wanted to try them with a darker chocolate but after tasting how bitter the coffee beans make the semi-sweet chocolate I think any darker would be hard to eat. The sprinkle of sugar adds a great texture to contrast with the crunchy beans. Now you can have your coffee and eat it, too.
I need some of that. Chocolate and a caffeine fix in one? Sounds about perfect for me right now.
mmmmmmmmmm I’m obviously on caffeine restrictions, but these sound fabulous! I used to love chocolate covered espresso beans.
Erm… I AM the coffee addict in my life! This is an incredible idea!
Ahhh, I LOVE chocolate-covered espresso beans. I used to depend on them to get me through my night grad classes.
This looks awesome.
you’re KILLING me! This looks so good. I love chocolate covered espresso beans, but this looks so, so easy to make. Could be trouble 🙂
A perfect morning treat, love that it is loaded with coffee beans, excellent!
Good Lord, Evan, stop posting this stuff so early! I need to try to wait until after lunch to get my chocolate buzz going! 😉
I can’t wait to make this! YUM!
Kim
Wow Evan that looks AWESOME. I love the ingredient list, too!
I really think I’m going to have to take a break from reading your blog while on this radioactive radiation treatment diet/no chocolate. GAH. These posts are killing me! So good.
omg you’ve outdone yourself today. just what i was craving! these would be perfect for entertaining! thanks bookmarking it 🙂
I love coffee (especially with chocolate), but I’m not sure about the coffee beans. I’ve never tried them, but won’t they be too…bitter?
The beans are pretty bitter, which is why I used a nice sweet semi-sweet chocolate to balance it. It’s still a pretty bitter dessert but people who like the bitterness of dark chocolate will probably enjoy this, too.
What an awesome idea! Great treat to put out when I have friends over for coffee and bread! Thanks!
I adore espresso and chocolate 🙂 this looks amazing!!!
Your posts always make me LOL…and I totally agree about chocolate covered espresso beans being the BEST thing about waking up. I used to be obsessed with the Choxie ones. And I’m pretty sure once I make your recipe today, I’ll reignite that obsession!
Thanks for a great recipe–I’ll be sure to tweet you how it turns out 🙂
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MMMMMM,..what delightful teats, home made too!
Looks excellent & tasty too!
this sounds lively!!
I went to a Garth Brooks concert a few years back, and there were two opening acts that we didn’t recognize… this guy comes out, sings a song or two, and then jokes that we don’t know who he is… then he says “you’ll know now” and starts singing – he’s the Folger’s guy!! 🙂
It must be awful for your best work to be a coffee commercial and no one know who you are, kind of like the Chili’s “I want my baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back” guy
I made something similar to this for a friend’s birthday party over the summer…and then proceeded to eat half of it. Ohmygosh so good. I’m not even a coffee person, but coffee and chocolate is second only to chocolate and peanut butter!
This looks amazing! Can you use just regular coffee beans you make coffee with, or is there a special kind?
Any coffee beans will do. I just got mine from the bulk coffee section at my grocery store.
Whoaaaaa. You rule, like… SO hard. 🙂
I’m scared to make this, because I would eat way too much and end up on a serious caffeine high 🙂
they’ll love you until they crash. = LOL
this looks good…but a little bit will do the trick!
I have never been one to eat choc covered coffee beans. I love them both..but honestly my sweet tooth takes over and they’re pretty bitter for me.
Sugar sprinkling, good call.
great idea!!
At first glance I thought that was salt sprinkled on top and I died a little bit inside admiring it, lol. Sugar is equally delish! Looks yummy. 🙂
I can send you my address.
Oh & guess who set her DVR to record the entire series of “Being Human” despite her husband scoffing at it? Why, yes, as a matter of fact it is this girl 😉
I adore coffee and chocolate together, so this might just be the incentive I need to try making bark for the first time. I’m kinda thinking I might sprinkle some sea salt on top too…
Can I like my computer screen? Oh, and confession – right after I type this comment I’m going directly to the post labeled Snickerdoodle…something, I don’t care what else was in the title, you had me at Snickerdoodle.
Dark chocolate covered coffee beans are da bomb! My friend literally force fed me one last summer and I’m in love.
Espresso Chocolate Bark WHOA!!
Are you even for serious?
Chocolate and espresso are two of my FAVORITE things.
Must make!
Oh Evan, you do our name proud! I absolutely adore chocolate covered espresso beans but would never have thought to try and make them myself.. this bark sounds fabulous.. I have to try this!
Chocolate and coffee..Two of god’s greatest gifts! Combining the two is man’s gift to god!
*Drooling at the pix**
I had a Camino Espresso dark chocolate bar here before – but I was unnerved. I tend to eat (alot) of chocolate in the evening and was paranoid it would keep me up all night 😉
I could die right now! This bark looks sooo good! And it’ll keep me going for hours 🙂
Hey Evan, do you do delivery? 😉
I am convinced this must be the PERFECT breakfast for me, as my breakfast usually consists of peanut M&M’s…heh heh heh.
This looks delicious!!!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Wow, this looks amazing. Another recipe on my “To Try” list.
Oooo, this sounds great! I’ve never had chocolate-covered coffee beans, but considering my coffee addiction, I really ought to try it!
I bet that buzz is intense from both coffee and dark chocolate.
This looks delicious. I love the chocolate coffee combo, it’s irresistible!
this reminds me of the chocolate covered coffee beans they serve at caribou coffee (a Midwest coffee chain), and i used to order fancy drinks just so i could get one 🙂
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thanks for the relink on this and I noticed you did it via stumble. There was obviously a method there…good one! Both on the recipe and the relinking 🙂
This looks wonderful and like a great breakfast. 🙂
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