This is a great recipe to take out your holiday rage on. Smashing up those candy canes can be pretty cathartic, I tell you. It's also nice because it can all come together in 30 minutes or so and you don't even have to turn on your oven. And, double bonus, since peppermint bark is so heavily pushed by Williams-Sonoma, no one realizes how simple it is to make. They just pick up a box out of habit almost.... which means that they'll all be totally blown away that you made it "from scratch!"