#make-ahead-desserts

#make-ahead-desserts

These peppermint bark cookie bars are the perfect combination of rich dark chocolate with a sugary white chocolate mocha. If refreshing, minty, sweet, and rich flavors fit your holiday vibe, then you need to incorporate these cookie bars into your cookie platter. Ksenia Prints of At the Immigrant's Table admits that calling these festive treats "cookie" bars is almost misleading.

Serve this rich, decadent dessert warm from the oven in the centre of the table, piled with ice-cream (and perhaps pouring cream, too why not? It's Christmas!). The batter can be made and kept in the fridge for up to 24 hours, then baked from chilled; add an extra 10 minutes to the cooking time if you do so, though.

Good-quality chocolate bars are essential. Choose a nice one you can chop up, rather than chocolate chips, which contain emulsifiers that can turn the mousse stodgy.