Cotton Candy Chocolate Bar

I love cotton candy and when I heard about the new angel hair chocolate bar trend, I had to give it a try! Now this obviously uses cotton candy and not angel hair but it will give a similar style but easier to accomplish. You can change it up in so many ways with different decorations, different types of chocolate, and different flavors of cotton candy.

These would be great for a party as a fun and colorful treat!

1. Chocolate Almond Bark - I think I used about 8oz total with a little leftover.
2. Vanilla Almond Bark with gel coloring or colored candy melts Pink and Blue work well with the traditional cotton candy colors
3. Cotton Candy - for my molds I used about 1oz
4. Candy Molds
5. Paramount Crystals - I like to use these to help melt the chocolate but you can also leave it out or use Coconut Oil
6. Various melting bowls and spoons
7. Cutting board (optional)

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Start by putting the toppings in the mold. This could be sprinkles, candies, or colored candy melts. I dyed some vanilla almond bark and sprinkled that in the mold first.

I stuck this in the fridge to harden up while I melted the chocolate. Luckily, it doesn't take long for it to harden.

*When I'm working with a flexible silicon mold that I want to move around a lot, I like to put it on a cutting board so it's easy to move it without working about distorting it or dropping it.

I decided to start by melting just half my chocolate, but you can do it all at once as it won't take long between these steps.

Once the chocolate is melted, coat the inside including the bottom and sides. The goal is that the cotton candy will be encased in chocolate.

Stick this in the fridge. It won't take long for it to harden up. You don't want to make a mess putting in the cotton candy.

Once it is all firm, take out your cotton candy and start sticking it in the mold. You want to smush it down the best you can so it's not sticking out the sides or sticking up too much. I found that after doing like two of these, my hands got a little sticky from the cotton candy and it got harder to put it in the molds since it wanted to stick to me. It can help to wash up your hands a bit in the middle of doing this and then going back to it. Just make sure your hands are dry.

As you can see, I used just about the hole 1oz bag and really tried to stuff these molds.

Cover up the cotton candy with the chocolate. It can get kind of sticky so be careful to not pull up the cotton candy.

After I had them covered, I tried to clean out the lines between the bars a little so they'd be easier to take out once hard.

Once they are covered, stick them in the fridge one last time. It shouldn't take long but you could give them about half an hour if you want to make sure it's hardened all the way through.

I used whatever extra chocolates I had in another mold with marshmallows to use it up. Remember not to put melted chocolate down the drain or it will harden in the pipes. I like to do something with it like this to use it up but not put it to waste.

Once they were solid, I took them out of the mold and kind of trimmed all the excess around the edges.

I did have some where you can see the cotton candy through the chocolate, but mostly I got them covered! Make sure to put them in a container for storage so the cotton candy doesn't get all melted.

Have fun with these bars! I was surprised how light they felt. I thought they should be a little heavy because of how big they are but the cotton candy really does take away from the weight.