Homemade Snickers Bars.
That’s what this is. Pure In.San.It.TEEEEE.
You know those days when you’re in desperate need of sugar and you’ve already downed more gummy vitamins than recommended while seriously considering how many more you can ingest without causing severe harm to your internal organs? They’re just so gooooood.
Well… in that case you should make some homemade snickers bars. Because I definitely did that.
And I KNOW you know what I’m talking about.
I spent the majority of my pre-pubescent and adolescent years scheming just how I would be able to steal my brothers’ Halloween candy. Snickers were always my favorite, and the boys weren’t huge fans so more often than not, they would hand them over. But sometimes… they kept them just to spite me. Brats.
Then I went through a SERIOUS phase of those Snickers ice cream bars. I swear they only had like 4 in a package or something but I could easily take down 2 for dessert. As kids, we were rarely allowed candy bars, but my mom had no issue with buying bags of fun-sized candy because, well… when things are fun-sized it means the calories don’t count.
And that you can eat a million of them.
These days, it’s rare that I crave actual candy, often preferring some chewy cookies or super rich cheesecake or a bar of amazing chocolate that costs thrice as much as the recent organic meyer lemons I purchased. But snickers are in my blood.
They are the peanut butter to my jelly.
The salt to my pepper.
The broccoli to my… wait, no.
This recipes comes from my friend Nikki who, well… I didn’t even know until Instagram and Twitter.
But now Nikki is like my bestest friend ever. Because when someone emails you a recipe for homemade snickers bars, they are your BFF for life. I mean, who else has my best interests at heart like that? I don’t even know.
And the fabulous part? This is SO EASY. So, so, so, so, so easy. Like, had-five-drinks-and-a-recent-breakup-easy. It has four distinct steps and in print seems slightly intimidating, but it isn’t whatsoever. I promise. I swear. I even had every single ingredient on hand. And not just because I’m a hoarder. Would I lie to you?
I’m not even going to waste your time trying to convince you to whip up a batch because, uhhh…. look at them. They are irresistible. Literally… considering they ruined two of my family members’ January diets.
Now that’s a win.
Homemade Snickers Bars
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makes one 9×13 pan
bottom chocolate layer
1 1/4 cups milk chocolate chips
1/4 cup peanut butter
Thoroughly grease you baking pan. Melt ingredients together in a saucepan or microwave, then pour into the baking dish and spread until even. Let cool and harden completely.
nougat layer
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup evaporated milk
1 1/2 cups marshmallow fluff
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 1/2 cup salted peanuts chopped, roughly chopped
1 tsp vanilla extract
Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add in sugar and milk, stirring until dissolved and bring to a boil. Let cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add in fluff, peanut butter and vanilla, stirring until smooth. Turn off heat and fold in peanuts, then pour over bottom chocolate layer. Let cool completely.
caramel layer
1 14-ounce bag of caramels
1/4 cup whipping cream
Combine ingredients in a saucepan over low heat. Let melt, stirring occasionally, until smooth – this took about 10 minutes for me. Pour over nougat layer and let cool completely.
Top chocolate layer
1 1/4 cups milk chocolate chips
1/4 cup peanut butter
Melt ingredients together in a saucepan or microwave, then pour over caramel and spread until even. Let cool and harden completely.
Refrigerate for at least one hour before serving, then cut as desired. These can stay at room temperature, but they do get gooey. I like them refrigerated best!
Note: for best results, buy one of the half-sheet aluminum cake pans at the grocery store. That way, you can pop the entire square out and cut from there!
I can’t even take that.
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So I just made these and my nougat layer was brown not white do you know why that might be?
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I can cut them just fine, but am having a bit of a problem getting them out of the pan. The bottom layer is not coming up in one piece. It flakes a bit. So I am letting them sit on the counter right now to see if that layer will hold together a bit better. I did THOROUGHLY grease my glass dish and I did let them sit in the fridge for 90 minutes after that last layer had cooled and hardened. Not sure what I will do next time different.
( I opted out of the store bought aluminum pan-as they are a bit pricey right now. These are very good bars, so they may be worth the price of the pan.)
Try wax paperÂ
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How do I print the Snickers Bars recipe? I don’t see anywhere on the page.
I tried these with white chocolate for a super bowl party this year because my boyfriend can’t have chocolate (i really don’t know why i continue to date him with that being the case….oh wait. more chocolate for me!) and they turned out INCREDIBLE!
Thanks for the recipe :)
Stephanie with the boyfriend that can’t  have chocolate – GREAT COMMENT – keep dating him!!Â
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I noticed that all the steps say “cool completely.” But after cooling the first chocolate layer, is that necessary? Obviously there’d still be a few minutes of cooling between steps because of the work required, but If you add the nougat, caramel, and top chocolate without completely cooling wouldn’t they mix slightly instead of being totally separate layers? That’s sounds even better to me!
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Made these today. So delicious! I will definitely make again. I was worried they would be difficult to cut, but were very easy. I cut into bite size and put in mini cupcake papers. Instead of greasing my pan, I lined with Parchment 0aper. Lifted right out and nothing stuck to it :)
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I made these this week and they were a hit! I had some homemade caramel lying about so I used that instead. I tried to cool the layers completely, but I was a bit hasty so they turned out kinda messy. Still tasty though! There was a bit more peanut butter flavor than I taste in a normal snickers, so I might scale that back next time.
Can you freeze these?
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I make these all the time. They are a huge hit. One of my favorite candies. Think these are better then the actual candy bar. :)
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What do u mean by “whipping cream”? Heavy cream or whipped cream (like what you put on top of hot chocolate?)
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