Fall is the season for comfort foods with warm nutty flavors and decadent chocolate! For when you crave something sweet without creating havoc in the kitchen (or ruining your diet), Fall Popcorn Bark is an easy solution. Made in less than 10 minutes and chilled before being ready to be enjoyed after 20 – and though its ingredients taste indulgent enough, its ingredients actually pack an abundance of health benefits! Plus it couldn’t be simpler!
To create this Chocolate Popcorn Bark, we simply line a baking sheet with parchment paper and pour melted dark chocolate all over it before spreading it evenly with a spatula. After topping with healthy ingredients like popcorn, pumpkin seeds, pecans and hemp seeds; dried cranberries and cherries add chewy bites of tart fruit; for an additional sweet and salty bite we add maple crystals and sea salt for good measure!
Don’t fret over collecting all the ingredients for this dish – they can all be easily purchased online at iHerb, our favorite health and wellness store! It is super convenient, offers amazing prices and super fast shipping; plus they stock tons of healthy products in addition to supplements like vitamins. They carry everything from coffee and tea, flours, nuts & seeds snacks oil plus many unique hard to find items! Click here now and browse their shop.
Here Are Some of the Health Benefits of Our Chocolate Popcorn Bark:
All chocolate holds a special place in my heart, but dark chocolate holds special appeal for its many health benefits as well as satisfying sweet cravings with even just a bite or two of dark chocolate. Mineral-rich black rice boasts iron, magnesium, copper, manganese, potassium, phosphorus, zinc and selenium as well as disease-fighting antioxidants – perfect for daily health! Researchers who conducted studies comparing cocoa and dark chocolate to other fruits discovered they possessed more overall antioxidant activity than even high antioxidant-rich blueberries and acai berries (1). Dark Chocolate flavonols have been widely recognized for their health benefits, such as improved circulation and protecting skin against sun damage as well as improving density and hydration of skin tissue. (2) Dark Chocolate is also noted to promote blood flow as well as improve brain health.
For this Fall Popcorn Bark we used our favorite dark chocolate bars from iHerb’s wide selection, all available to be shipped right to our homes. Here are a few that are fair-trade certified!