This kumquat chocolate bark is a perfect combination of sweet cranraisins, tart kumquats, sea salt, and chocolate!
This kumquat chocolate bark recipe is easy and quick to make, it just requires a little time for the chocolate to harden.
Do you love kumquats? or do you think they are way too tart? My mom loved kumquats and would just pop them in her mouth and eat them whole. That is one way to eat them, they are way too small to peel and too tart if you just eat the inside. The sweet part is the outside. One of her delights about where we live in Fallbrook was our neighbor’s kumquat tree that had branches hanging over on our property. She always looked forward to picking a few and eating them. Kumquats are not something I probably would choose to buy at the store, but when we got a whole bag of them in our CSA box this week, I knew I needed a recipe to use them in. I found a few; kumquat sorbet and kumquat crusted tilipia but the most appealing was a kumquat bark recipe I found in my Marta Stewart magazine. I decided to make it simpler and add a couple of twists with cranraisins and coarse sea salt. The whole combination was perfect together with the sweet cranraisins, tart kumquats, salt, and chocolate! 
Kumquat Chocolate Bark
Ingredients
- 4 oz bittersweet chocolate bar
- 12 kumquats (sliced thin)
- 1/4 cup cranraisins
- 2 pinches coarse sea salt (about 1/2 tsp)
Instructions
- Wash your kumquats
- Slice the ends off your kumquats and discard
- Slice each of your kumquats thin about 1/8 of an inch
- Chop your cranraisins with a knife
- Line a small 12 x 9 cookie sheet with parchment paper
- Break your bittersweet chocolate into chip size pieces into a microwave proof bowl
- In 30 second intervals at 50% power, start to melt your chocolate pieces, stirring after each time (it took 2 minutes all together for mine to become soft enough to stir until smooth, but this might vary according to your microwave power)
- Once the chocolate is melted enough stir until complete smooth
- Scoop your chocolate out of the bowl using a rubber spatula and spread over half of your parchment paper (if you want to double your recipe then it would most likely cover the whole little cookie sheet)
- Spread your kumquats over the top of the chocolate
- Scatter your cranraisins over the top of the chocolate
- Sprinkle your coarse sea salt over the top of everything
- Place into your fridge to harden for at least one hour
- After the chocolate is harden you can remove from fridge and break into pieces
- Store any leftover chocolate bark in an airtight container in your fridge
Enjoy this sweet and tart combination of chocolate!
Rhonda says
Carbs?
Theresa Stewart says
We went to the Kumquat Festival in Dade City, FL, the Kumquat capital, and now I know what to do with the fresh kumquats we bought!
Jesseca Hallows says
Ok, so I almost turned away. Almost. Kumquat is not my favorite, but anything dipped in chocolate has to be delicious! Great (and unique) idea!
Ellen Garrett says
I can understand your first reaction, chocolate is definitely the saving factor. But the kumquat just adds the tartness.
Melissa says
This looks so delicious. And I love that it is something new, I am always doing brownies and cookies, so this would be a great change.
Ellen Garrett says
Let me know how you like it.
Amber @ Dessert Now, Dinner Later! says
I have never tried a kumquat, but this looks delicious!
Ellen Garrett says
I hope you will like it as much as I did. Kumquats are tart and have a lot of seeds for being so little, I would say they are an acquired taste. But the whole combination of tart, chocolate, sweet, and salty really worked.
Jessica @ Pretty Providence says
Totally new for me too! Looks so fun and yummy!
Ellen Garrett says
I hope you like it. It was easy and good. A new experience for me but almost anything with chocolate is going to be good. Let me know what you think.
Alli Miller @ Cupcake Diaries says
This looks yummy! And something totally new for me. I would love to try it!
Ellen Garrett says
It was totally new for me too. I was very pleased with the taste. Let me know what you think.