Patriotic Candy Bark

Are you getting ready for 4th of July? This Patriotic Candy Bark is a fun summer take on a Christmastime classic, using some patriotic M&Ms to give it some red, white and blue flair. It’s a great sweet treat to serve alongside this healthier American Flag Kabob centerpiece!

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Are you getting ready for 4th of July? This Patriotic Candy Bark is a fun summer take on a Christmastime classic, using some patriotic M&Ms to give it some red, white and blue flair.

It’s a great sweet treat to serve alongside this healthier American Flag Kabob centerpiece!

Patriotic candy bark stacked on top of each other with American flags and red, white and blue M&Ms scatted in the background. more

Patriotic Candy Bark

This patriotic candy bark is actually a hybrid of two fun homemade candies: homemade crack candy and Christmas bark. While uses saltine crackers in her recipe, I swapped those out for pretzels for a different salty crunch.

Christmas bark is usually just melted chocolate sprinkled or swirled with something red and white, but layering it on the pretzel candy helps prevent it from being a big melted mess at your summer get-together, and also provides a nice contrast between the soft chocolate layer and crunchy candied pretzel layer.

While we used red, white & blue M&Ms for our recipe (a family favorite) you can swap those out for sprinkles or any other candy you’d like – even a couple drops of food dye swirled into the white chocolate while it is still melted.

An overhead photo of patriotic candy bark with red white and blue M&Ms and American flags in the background.

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