This solar eclipse bark candy recipe is fun for an eclipse party, galaxy or space birthday party ideas, sun themed foods and moon theme food ideas, or fun STEM crafts you can eat for solar unit studies or lunar lessons.
Easy Solar Eclipse Bark Candy For Solar Eclipse Parties
If you’re looking for solar eclipse event ideas, solar eclipse menu ideas, or kids activities to celebrate the big event, this galaxy bark is an easy themed recipe that is also visually beautiful!
Solar Eclipse Bark Candy Ingredients:
- Black candy melts (chocolate melts)
- Yellow candy melts
- Yellow sprinkles
- Black sprinkles
- Yellow star sprinkle candies
Get the full printable recipe card for chocolate bark below to add to your eclipse recipes.
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How To Make Eclipse Candy Bark Step-By-Step
This simple dessert is an easy addition to your solar eclipse recipes for a party.
Recipe Tips
You can make this easy bark recipe in any colors of chocolate melts like these, but we chose black and yellow for a solar eclipse party.
If you’re making this recipe for a space themed party, use black, light blue, and purple! (Or, adjust it to your party colors for any special occasion!)
- ALSO CHECK OUT MORE FUN ECLIPSE IDEAS: How To Throw A Solar Eclipse Party
This sweet treat also makes a cute party favor in cellophane bags with eclipse ribbon for a solar eclipse party or a space or galaxy party.
We added it to our solar eclipse party snack board (dessert board) and it was a great addition.
If you’ve never made a recipe for candy bark, this is a really fun recipe to make with kids. They’ll love swirling the colors together and adding fun sprinkles, but the most fun they’ll have is breaking the bark into pieces!
RECIPE NOTE: The black melts may look brown when melted depending on the brand and type of melts you use (ours did), but it dried a lot darker into the black bark you see in the finished pictures.
Recipe Supplies
For this recipe, you’ll need these supplies:
- Half sheet pan
- Yellow sprinkles
- Black sprinkles
- Yellow star sprinkles
RECIPE TIP: We didn’t make galaxy bark colors, but these sprinkles are perfect for purple, blue, and black candy bark, chocolate galaxy themed candy, or space chocolate suckers!
Don’t miss more eclipse party ideas (below) after the printable recipe card!
Solar Eclipse Bark Candy
Ingredients
- 2 pounds black candy melts
- 1/2 pound yellow candy melts
- Yellow sprinkles "jimmies"
- Black sprinkles
- Yellow star candy sprinkles
Instructions
- Line a rimmed half baking sheet (18x13) with wax paper, leaving some hanging over the ends. Set aside.
- Melt black candy melts according to package directions. Spread across the bottom of the baking sheet.
- Immediately melt the yellow candy melts according to package directions.
- Place 2 small spoons of melted yellow candy on top of the melted black chocolate. Place them opposite ends from each other.
- Use a a fork or skewer to swirl the yellow on top of the black. You want a swirled effect and not mix in the yellow to the black. Add more melted yellow until you get the desired effect.
- Sprinkle with yellow sprinkles, black sprinkles, and yellow star sprinkles on top.
- Set aside until cooled completely and hard. It can take about 2 hours at room temperature or around 20 minutes in the refrigerator.*
- Use the ends of the wax paper to remove the set bark. Turn onto a cutting board and break pieces apart. The number of pieces you get will depend on how big or small you break the pieces of bark. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition Note
Nutrition calculations are approximate. If you're following a special diet, please calculate your own nutrition values.
MAKE A FUN ECLIPSE DESSERT BOARD TO INCLUDE THE SOLAR ECLIPSE CANDY BARK!
MORE ECLIPSE PROJECTS FOR KIDS / ECLIPSE CRAFTS, RECIPE ECLIPSE IDEAS, AND SUN & MOON SCIENCE (STEM FOR KIDS):
- Get A Lunar Lemonade Drink Recipe
- Make An Eclipse Viewer
- Make Solar Eclipse Suckers
- Get Lunar Eclipse Lesson Plans And Free Eclipse Printable
- Make A DIY Solar Eclipse Glow-in-the-Dark T Shirt
- Get Full Moon Lesson Resources For Kids
- Make A Solar Splash Eclipse Party Punch
- Make Galaxy Fruit Dip
Enjoy the solar eclipse bark candy recipe!
