candy - salted hazelnut dark chocolate bark

By tinathorn

Ingredients

• 3 cups raw hazelnuts
• 12 oz dark chocolate (70%, 80%, 90% or even 99-100%)
• 2 Tbsp extra virgin coconut oil (you can substitute butter, ghee, lard or palm shortening)
• 1/2 tsp coarse unrefined salt (optional; I like to crush Himalayan pink salt)

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from thepaleomom.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350F.

Place hazelnuts on a rimmed baking sheet and bake 15 minutes.  Remove them from the oven and immediately pour into a clean tea towel.  Fold the tea towel over the hazelnuts and let them sit for 1-2 minutes.

Discard the skins and place the hazelnuts back on the tea towel (you could also do this step on a cutting board on in a large ziplock bag).  Crush the hazelnuts with a rolling pin, until the pieces are pea-sized or a little smaller.

Melt chocolate and extra virgin coconut oil over a double boiler or in the microwave on medium power.

Mix crushed hazelnuts into melted chocolate and pour onto prepared baking sheet.  Spread to 1/4″-3/8″ thick (it won’t cover your whole baking sheet and that’s fine).  Sprinkle salt over the top.