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.
868 Comments on “Homemade Snickers Bars.”
Just made these and they are fantastic! Taste like a real snickers bar! I would suggest that as you’re doing each layer and waiting for each to harden, put the tray in the freezer after you pour each layer. That way, after every layer is finished, you will have a much easier time cutting the sheet into squares without having to be concerned with the caramel oozing out. Then, after you cut them into squares, you can put the squares in the refrigerator to keep solid until you’re ready to serve. Two thumbs up for this recipe!
Home made Marshmallow Fluff:
3 egg whites (*See Notes)
2 cups light corn syrup or honey (**See Notes)
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups confectioner’s sugar
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
Combine the egg whites, corn syrup or honey and salt in a large mixing bowl or in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment.
Mix on high speed until thick, about 10 minutes.
Sift the confectioner’s sugar over the egg whites and mix on low speed until evenly combined.
Pour in the vanilla extract and mix on low speed until evenly combined.
Scrape into a container with a tight fitting lid and store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. Freeze for up to one month. Stir before each use.
Thank you so much for this! I can’t eat store-bought fluff because they seem to all have gelatine in. That or I just haven’t found a brand that doesn’t yet. It’s not like there’s really a variety of fluff in the UK. Anyway, thank you! I shall have to make several fluff-requiring recipes now and completely ruin my diet.
I made these for the Superbowl yesterday and they came out great! I enjoyed them and so did my friends :) I refrigerated every layer because I was short on time and couldn’t wait for it to cool while sitting out; this didn’t seem to create a problem at all. The only other thing I did differently was putting the peanuts in the caramel layer instead of the nougat. I wanted it to be as much like a snickers as possible; this also came out perfectly. I hope everyone else has/had as much success with these as I did!!
These sound amazing! and look like heaven!!!! can’t wait to make them!
It is great to see all the variations people have tried making them. There is always
a few ways to skin a chicken! :)
Holy crap. I made these for the superbowl and loved them! One pan will go a long way! Thanks so much for posting this!!!
You keep caramels, whipping cream and marshmallow fluff on hand, and eat gummy vitamins out of desperation? I would resort to eating to dipping the caramels in the marshmallow fluff with a cream chaser, but you are obviously WAY more sophisticated than me!
I saw these on a Pinterest round up and am so happy to find the source! These look awesome, I can’t wait to try them!
I made these to bring to a Superbowl party and they were a huge HIT!!! Everyone LOVED them! Thank you for the incredible recipe!
Oh wow! I’m always wondering what homemade thing I can make to give away for Christmas, birthdays etc. and I think they might be a winner!
…not just because I’ll be taking everyone’s advice and eating a couple myself. Nooooo.
Thank god for stumble upon!
I made these today. Mine turned out pretty thin, but still amazing! I didn’t have evaporated milk so I mixed milk and heavy whipping cream and it worked just fine. I used chunky peanut butter And omitted the nuts from the nougat layer. I also set them in the freezer for 30 minutes before cutting, and it worked great!!! They are so good. Took some to my moms coworkers and they were a huge!
So, it’s not just me who eats those gummy vitamins like candy.. It’s seriously hard to resist. The only reason I’m able to stop myself if because I know if I don’t I’ll poison myself and end up in a hospital.
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Wow! I made these for our Super Bowl party and they were a big hit. I will be making these often and may never eat a regular Snickers bar again!
These look HEAVENLY!! I’m pretty sure my daughter and I will be making these very soon!! I normally keep my mouth shut and my thoughts to myself, but Martha, why don’t you get a life and stop being so nasty to people you don’t know. You must really be a miserable person to attack someone over a recipe that you didn’t like. As everyone else said, you obviously did something wrong and by the way that you do seem to attack people that you don’t know, I would say you do things wrong all the time. Get a life. Didn’t your mother teach you “if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all?”
Wow! These look amazing! I have committed to a diet for the month of February, but WATCH OUT March! I’m afraid these may turn out to be rather addictive…
What the heck is marshmellow fluff?????
these are fantastic everyone loves them.
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Drooling internally.
I also don’t know what marshmellow fluff is, handy recipe in the comments for it, but still doesn’t really help with the lack of knowledge!
Thank you Dani for the recipe for marshmallow fluff.
Can you please tell me how many cups this recipe makes – I live in the uk and cups don’t come easy to me! We tend -(at my age) to use pounds(lbs) and ounces(oz) here or metric if (younger than I am)!
I’m looking forward to making these as a treat for my big birthday – party at the end of may.
Would Australian cups be the same as American cups?
Thanks to everyone else for all your tips – I thought I might try these with hazelnuts instead of peanuts – i’ll let you know how they turn out.
We used to have something called a topic bar yummy ! Almost the same.
There are 8oz. in 1 cup, so 2 cups in 1 pound.
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So I just made this and it tastes amazing!!!! Coming from someone who doesn’t like Snickers, I actually enjoyed this. It didn’t hold it’s shape very well, but who cares! As long as it tastes good it doesn’t matter!!=)
I’ll probably never make it (because it sounds like lots of work and like it would cause a diabetic coma) but I can’t believe how incredibly yummy it sounds, and looks, omg!!!! Next time you make it, can I come over?
Can these be cut with cookie cutters? … like into valentine shapes and you can see the yummy layers from the sides?
This is probably a silly question, but I was just reading this over because I’m going to make it for my boyfriend for valentines day but what does it mean to “fold in the peanuts?” lol. just to mix it in with the rest of the ingredients for the nougat layer
Holy yum, I know what I’m doing this weekend.
I made these this weekend for the super bowl and everyone loved them. they’re delicious! also someone posted a picture of them on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/FoodPorn/comments/ph4pz/homemade_snickers_you_said_hmm_yes_ill_take_five/
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I just want it mailed to me f off on the multiple people
I just emailed it to myself again in the multiple friends section and it worked.
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Hi, I love Your blog but I have a problem with ingredients. I live in Poland (Europe) and we don’t have marshmallow fluff here. Can I just use marshmallows – heat and melt them with sugar and milk?
When I look at Your great photos I konw that I MUST DO IT but without fluff or it’s substitute it is rather impossible, I think ;)
Greetings from snowy Poland!
Search google – plenty of homemade marshmallow fluff recipes online
here’s one: http://whatscookingamerica.net/Candy/MarshmallowFluff.htm
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Candy/MarshmallowFluff.htm
recipe for homemade marshmallow creme
See if Amazon.co.uk will ship Fluff to you. Or the German Amazon-both stock Fluff. :)
I use regular marshmallows, not sure if it ends up different but it sure tasted great!!
Thank All for tips :)
Hi,
Give me your address and I will send you some fluff. I live outside of Boston where fluff was invented. It’s like a white melted marshmellow. I actually went to Montreal last year to get Dulce de Leche in Montreal. It’s not sold in the states. It took about 7 hours to get there but it was worth it. Montreal is a great city and i pick up some hard to find baking supplies. Have a good day!
Hi,
it’s very nice of You, Ken :) I had done Homemade Snickers with homemade fluff from Jessica’s link: http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2011/08/homemade-marshmallow-creme
It turned out to be the quintessence of sweetness :)) Thanks for all your tips and advices, I have just bought a big bag of regular marshmallows but now I want to switch to sth savory ;P
OK, I’ve just read all comments and now I know it will not works… That’s a pity but thanks for recipe ‘Homemade Marshmallow Creme’ :)
Holy amazing. I fond these via MADE (thank you, Dana!). I need these now. But, I have to say, it’s surprising to me that you had marshmallow fluff on hand. ;)
You don’t have it on hand?? :)
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I have made these and they are so yummy! I had to send them to work with my husband or I would have eaten the whole pan! I just got done making these again, but instead of using peanuts and peanut butter, I used almonds and almond butter! Oh my goodness, so good! I may never by another candy bar again, but if I keep making these I may gain 400lbs, I just can’t resist! :)
Oh,my…..the small boys are I are in the process of making these- and it’s really freaking cold outside, which means our glassed-in vestibule is just right for chilling the layers. I just tasted the “left in the pan” bits of the nougat layer, and seriously, seriously, somehow it tastes just like a Snickers bar! Making these for a 2-family get-together tomorrow, and I am going to be the goddess of dessert! Thank you!
I made these as a Valentine’s Day treat for my boyfriend (otherwise known as he who will inhale Snickers bars until he’s sick). He immediately asked for 40 more and said he likes them better than the original Snickers bar! I love that they’re so easy to make, too. :) Thanks!
Made these for Supper Club yesterday and they are GREAT! I didn’t prefer them refridgerated though because the caramel was so hard it was difficult to eat. Thanks for the recipe though, they were a big hit!
I had made these a long time ago and could never find the recipe after that. I am so happy to have found this on your site! SO delish!
Tried these this weekend and I LOVE IT! Wow, not only were they easy to make, they were alot of fun. Thanks for sharing.
The most fantastic thing that I have ever tasted in my life!!! Thanks for the recipe!!
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