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Homemade Snickers

September 12, 2016 by Nikki Cole

Homemade Snickers by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's Helper

Peanut butter and chocolate? Best combination ever!  I love peanut butter and who doesn’t love chocolate.  Well if you are like me then these Homemade Snickers are for you.  These are simple to make and taste even better than the store bought.

Homemade Snickers by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's Helper

This recipe isn’t very hard just mainly waiting for layers to chill in the refrigerator.  The recipe makes a whole 9 x 13” pan of delicious, wonderful, and completely your own Homemade Snickers bars.  Try freezing them to make a nice frozen treat, and it makes it last longer because you can’t devour it down in one bite.  Like white chocolate instead of milk?  Just substitute white almond bark and white chocolate chips instead of milk and you can have your own unique Homemade Snickers bar.

Homemade Snickers by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's Helper

Ingredients:

  • 8 squares almond bark (about 2 cups if you’re using candy wafers) divided
  • ½ cup milk chocolate chips, divided
  • ¾ cup creamy peanut butter, divided
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ cup evaporated milk, divided
  • 1 ½ cup marshmallow crème
  • 1 ½ cup salted dry roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 16 oz caramels

Directions

  1. Line a 9 x 13” pan with aluminum foil so you can easily lift the bars out of the pan when finished.  Spray foil with nonstick cooking spray, set aside.
  2. In a small microwave-safe bowl, melt together 4 squares of almond bark (1 cup wafers), ¼ cup chocolate chips, and ¼ cup peanut butter in the microwave, stirring until smooth.  Spread evenly over the bottom of prepared pan.  Refrigerate until chocolate is hard.
  3. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt butter.  Stir in sugar and ¼ cup evaporated milk until dissolved.  Bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.  Add in marshmallow crème and ¼ cup peanut butter, stirring until smooth.  Remove from heat and stir in chopped peanuts and vanilla until well mixed.  Spread evenly over chilled chocolate.  Refrigerate until chilled.
  4. In a medium saucepan over low heat, heat caramels and remaining ¼ cup evaporated milk until caramels are melted and mixture is smooth, stirring occasionally.  Spread evenly over chilled nougat.  Refrigerate until chilled.
  5. In a small microwave-safe bowl, melt together remaining 4 squares almond bar (1 cup wafers), ¼ cup chocolate chips and ¼ cup peanut butter in the microwave, stirring until smooth.  Cool for 5 minutes.  Spread evenly over chilled caramel.  Refrigerate for an hour.  Remove candy from pan by lifting foil then cut into bars.  If you want you can melt some additional chocolate and dip sides of the bars in so it’s completely covered with chocolate.

Homemade Snickers by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's HelperHomemade Snickers by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's Helper

Filed Under: Dessert Tagged With: candy bars, Chocolate, dessert, easy, Homemade, peanut butter, snickers

2 Ingredient Copy-Cat 3 Musketeers

May 2, 2016 by Nikki Cole

CopyCat 3 Musketeers! by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's Helper

Love candy bars? Well make your own then and enjoy cooking your favorites with the simplicity of 2 ingredient Copy-Cat 3 Musketeers!  This recipe is incredibly easy and has only two ingredients and still has the smooth and comforting deliciousness. You’ll never buy store bought again!

CopyCat 3 Musketeers! by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's Helper

I’ve been experimenting with different homemade candy bar recipes which can be dangerous sometimes like my lovely tootsie roll experience that ended up being a huge mess and didn’t even turn out anything like tootsie rolls (trust me, don’t try them) or like my homemade butterfingers where I end up eating the whole pan in a day.  With these Copy-Cat 3 Musketeers I loved how simple it was and I made bite size and froze them and they are so nice to have a little chocolate treat to melt in your mouth whenever I need something small to get me by. With these, if you don’t have a loaf pan or an 8 x 8 pan make sure you double it or your 3 Musketeers will be mainly chocolate coating and no marshmallow gooeyness in the center.  My first batch ended up like this and while they were still good what I really enjoy is the soft marshmallow texture in the center so use either a small pan or double the recipe to get about 3/4 inch thick center.

Ingredients

  • 1 (7 oz) container marshmallow crème
  • (16 oz) milk chocolate almond bark

CopyCat 3 Musketeers! by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's Helper

Directions

  1. Spray a loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray or line with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. In a small microwave-safe bowl, melt 8 oz of the chocolate in 30 second intervals until smooth.
  3. Heat the marshmallow crème for 30 seconds in a small microwave-safe bowl.
  4. Combine chocolate and marshmallow crème.
  5. Evenly spread the marshmallow mixture evenly into the pan and then chill for several hours until firm or place in freezer for 30 minutes.
  6. In a microwave-safe bowl melt the remaining almond bark in 30 second intervals until smooth.
  7. Cut the marshmallow mixture into bite size pieces or bars then dip into melted almond bark. Tap on the side of the bowl to remove excess chocolate then place on waxed paper until harden.

CopyCat 3 Musketeers! by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's Helper

CopyCat 3 Musketeers! by Nikki Christiansen for Busy Mom's Helper

Filed Under: Dessert, Snack Tagged With: 2 ingredient, candy, candy bars, Chocolate, Copy-Cat, easy

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