Trivia: we’re getting closer and closer to everyone’s favorite time of the year, but which item is almost always sold out at Williams Sonoma during the holiday season? That’s right, it is their wildly popular Peppermint Bark! It’s usually so rare to find one specific item that perfectly captures the spirit of the holiday season, and this is why we love flavors such as the Peppermint Bark to kickstart the holiday we all long for during the entirety of the year.
The Peppermint Bark holiday special edition is back for the fourth year in Kuwait, and a thriving 20th anniversary at Williams Sonoma. While we all start to prepare for the season of heavy coats, hot cocoa and outdoor cozy gatherings, all that will be missing is a bite of festive happiness to share in the upcoming cold tranquility, and give us a head start for that holiday cheer we all need.
Cue the famous, original Peppermint Bark! It is here to serve us nostalgically handcrafted ingredients, starting with a simple but delicious custom blend of Guittard chocolate, and triple distilled oil of peppermint. Poured over a sleek marble table is a mixture of layered melted dark chocolate, expert candy makers then top this off with another layer of creamy white chocolate for that perfect sweet and bitter balance. If this isn’t a flavor of holiday perfection at its finest, then we really don’t know what is
Williams Sonoma also expanded their Peppermint Bark collection to two flavorful varieties, Salted and Dark chocolate. The Salted Bark highlights one key ingredient, which is Jacobsen’s purely flaked sea salt for that added savory but delicate crunch. While the Dark chocolate Bark features intensified Guittard chocolate flavors by adding extra layers of both their semisweet and bittersweet chocolate.
The ingredient that brings this wonderful and wintery, snowy bark to life is crushed pieces of peppermint candy. The Peppermint Bark original results in endless bites of balanced out textures and harmonious flavors. Williams Sonoma made sure that every taken bite would not turn into an overwhelming explosion of chocolatey and minty flavors, but rather focused on equally proportioned amount of ingredients for their famous Bark. Essentially, making it highly popular to regular and new customers who are seeking such seasonal flavors. We personally crave this flavor all year, and we don’t care if you judge us for doing so.
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The original Peppermint Bark first debuted in 1998. Williams Sonoma continue to pour their heart and soul into the process of perfecting it, by trying out more than 20 rounds till they settled on that one famous recipe, which everyone’s obsessed with. Essentially spending 12 weeks every year, and more than 24 hours to make a batch of the Bark, the effort shows with every single flavorful bite! They will also be launching special Middle Eastern flavors, and we simply cannot wait to try them out.
Finally, it is all wrapped up in its special colorful packaging of red, white and silver tins and is beautifully placed all around the holidays section at Williams Sonoma for our eyes to snatch before it is sold out, or worse, out of season. The packaging itself is designed to attribute various kinds of occasions, be it for gatherings, gifts with celebratory ribbons, or to sneak in your bag and pockets for a quick snack with hot drinks during the cold weather. So make sure you grab your Peppermint Bark once it is released to savor every bite before the holiday season ends.
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