It depends on what you are substituting them IN. Remember, when you are baking, you are actually creating a chemical reaction between the ingredients in the pan. If you are substituting added whole ingredients, try to replace the same amount of what you are nixing, ratio matters!
It's generally not a wise idea to substitute liquids or powdered ingredients when baking unless you have time to experiment with several batches.
The short answer is: yes! Experiment away! That's the fun of baking!
Yes, you can I have tried it before.
Chocolate almond bark is layered chocolate with shredded or whole almonds on top. A variation of this is peppermint bark, white and dark chocolate topped with shredded candy canes.
Generally speaking, a 12-oz bag of chocolate chips is equivalent to about 4 cups of chips, while one square of almond bark (2.5 oz) is equivalent to about 1 cup of chocolate chips. Therefore, assuming a 12-oz bag of chocolate chips, it would take around 4 squares of almond bark to equal the contents of the bag.
There are thousands of recipes that use chocolate almond bark (or produce it). Some of their names are the following: Bark Candy and Dark Chocolate Almond Bark.
For coating or dipping purposes, yes, you can. I have done it before for cake balls as well as chocolate chip cookie dough truffles, and it works very well. Great way to stretch expensive chocolate bark. I've even mixed chocolate chips with white almond bark, and it came out all chocolate. I couldn't tell the difference. I'm pretty sure I used milk chocolate chips every time.
If the chips are just mixing into the batter before baking, cut the bark into small pieces and mix in instead. Sounds good.
No, they are not the same.
NO it is not recommended!
The texture and flavor of the white chocolate will be different, but it can work. If you are chunking it up into cookies, or something along those lines, it will not mess up the recipe.
Try it and see...
Recipes that involve chocolate and almonds include chocolate almond biscotti and almond cherry chocolate bark. Recipes for both chocolate almond biscotti and almond cherry chocolate bark can be found for free on Joy of Baking and Epicurious.
Sure you can. If you want to keep the white/dark look you need to dip the candy or cookie one at a time and let it dry between dips.