Snickers

If you know me at all, you know that I am a huge extrovert. I hardly ever get tired of seeing friends, or talking. I also love food, hence the blog title. 

And the only thing I can think of that's better than hanging out with friends, eating while doing it. 

So, this week I decided to try out yet another Pinterest recipe: Homemade Snickers. I brought these to my life group Thursday night and oh. my goodness. 

Seriously. One of those desserts that you just can't stop eating. 

If you aren't taking these somewhere where with lots of people to help you it, you will eat the whole pan. Trust me. 

This not my picture, but my result looked pretty much exactly the same. 

Here is a slightly modified version of the recipe:

First chocolate layer

1 1/2 cups milk chocolate

1/4 + 1 T smooth peanut butter

Thoroughly grease your 9 x 14 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 sugar

1 1/2 cups marshmallow fluff (basically 1 7oz jar)

1/4 cup evaporated milk

1/4 cup smooth peanut butter

1 1/2 cups salted peanuts, chopped

1 tsp pure 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 oz. 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.

Bottom Chocolate Layer:

1 1/2 cups milk chocolate

1/4 cup + 1 T smooth 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!

So yummy. It was unanimously agreed that these are better than the packaged kind. They probably have just as many preservatives because they are made from packaged food. But, oh well. They still taste AMAZING!