Cinnamon Bark

Last Updated on February 26, 2026 by becky

A Valentine’s Day cinnamon bark recipe with melted white chocolate, sprinkles, and cinnamon red hot candies. The best cinnamon red hot bark!

Why Make This Cinnamon Bark?

I’m a big fan of holiday-themed chocolate barks, and have an arsenal of recipes for just about every occasion: Saint Patrick’s Day, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, you name it.

This time last year, I created a classic white chocolate bark with gummy hearts and candy conversation hearts for Valentine’s Day. This V-Day, I’m spicing things up with a cinnamon red hot bark.

This fiery pink chocolate bark comes together in a matter of minutes, with no cooking required. Just melt white chocolate,  stir in spicy cinnamon candies, spread everything on a silicone mat, and swirl with pink-tinted chocolate. Decorate the slab with your favorite Valentine’s Day sprinkles or a dusting of edible glitter, then break it into pieces and get ready for the sweetest, spiciest Valentine’s Day treat!

Ingredients for Making Cinnamon Red Hot Bark

To make this cinnamon bark recipe, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• White Chocolate – I suggest making this bark with a white chocolate couverture (such as Guittard, Valrhona, or Callebaut) or good-quality chocolate chips or callets, but even grocery store chocolate chips will work in a pinch.
• Pink Food Coloring – Oil and water do not mix! For this reason, choose a pink oil-based food coloring (sometimes called candy coloring) to tint the chocolate, rather than a water-based liquid or gel.

• Cinnamon Red Hot Candies – Use cinnamon red hot candies (sometimes also sold as “cinnamon imperials” or “cinnamon imperial hearts”) to decorate and add the cinnamon-y flavor. If you bought a big bag of cinnamon imperials to make my holly leaf cookies at Christmas, this is a good way to use up the leftovers!
• Sprinkles – You can decorate your bark with pink nonpareils, Valentine’s Day sprinkles, or even homemade sprinkles. And just like I did with my unicorn bark, I added a dusting of edible glitter for a sparkly finishing touch.

Tinting and Marbling the Chocolate

To create the marble pattern, you’ll need a metal skewer, chopstick, fondant tool, or other long, thin utensil. Simply swirl and drag it through the melted chocolate until you achieve your desired result:

When adding color to white chocolate, I recommend an oil based food coloring for best results. However, if you aren’t concerned with making picture-perfect bark, gel food coloring will also work reasonably well.  (For an example, see my white chocolate Valentine’s Day bark recipe—for that batch, I used Chefmaster’s Bakers Rose to tint my chocolate.) Because you’re swirling the pink and white chocolates together anyway, the marbling will hide any small white marks, water spots, or imperfections.

If you don’t have food coloring or want to simplify the recipe, you can replace the tinted chocolate with pink candy melts, or make a solid white chocolate bark instead.

Make-Ahead and Storage Suggestions

This cinnamon white chocolate bark will keep for about 3 weeks when stored in an airtight container at room temperature.

For gifting, I suggest packaging pieces of bark in Valentine-print cello bags tied with pink or red ribbons.

Other Valentine’s Day recipes you might enjoy:

Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies
Heart Shaped Strawberry Marshmallows
Red Wine Truffles
Chocolate Covered Cherries
Valentine’s Day Parfait
White Chocolate Valentine’s Day Bark
Valentine Rice Krispie Treats

And if you do make these, or any of my recipes, don’t forget to tag me @bastecutfold or use the hashtag #bastecutfold on Instagram. I always love to see what you’re making!

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