Peppermint Bark

I know. I know.  I'm a day late posting but I ended up working yesterday -- holiday pay, baby! -- and getting today off.  So this week, the Thursday Homemaker is coming to you on Friday.  Anyway, our cafeteria operates on limited hours on holidays so those of us that work usually coordinate a potluck of some kind.  We appropriately had a ton of food and today I share my contribution.
I discovered peppermint bark this year and am completely addicted.  I've been buying the Dove dark chocolate version of it and decided that it can't be that difficult to make.  I started by looking it up on my favorite cooking website  and then just chose the simplest version of it to try.  (And believe me...it was good but I will be experimenting with it!)  The recipes is as follows...

2 packages of semisweet chocolate chips
Candy canes (I bought "soft" peppermint sticks at Walmart.)

Put 4-5 candy canes (5-6 peppermint sticks) in a zip-top bag and crush the hell out of them.  I have cheap bags so I ended up with holes in them which works well in a little while.
Using a double boiler melt the chocolate chips over medium heat.  (Be careful not to get any moisture in your chocolate or it will seize up and be useless.)  While it's melting line a cookie sheet with wax paper.  Once your chocolate is melted, take your bag of crushed candy and shake out the tiny particles of "peppermint dust."  If you mix it into the chocolate it kind of infuses the minty goodness throughout the whole candy. 
Spread chocolate on the wax papers -- two bags takes up most of the sheet.  You don't want it too thin. 
Sprinkle the rest of your peppermint chunks across the the top.  I kind of lightly patted the peppermint chips down into the chocolate so that when it firmed up they stuck better.
Place the whole tray in the refrigerator or freezer until the chocolate is solid again -- about an hour in the fridge.
Break into pieces.
Enjoy.

Most of the bark was gone before I left work.  The rest was inhaled by my family rather quickly.