23.7.12

Homemade Snickers for SRC!

Good Morning friends! Its been a while. :) It is time for our SRC reveal and this month I was assigned a challenge - I was assigned Heidi's blog which is in Danish. I didn't have the proper internet browser (she recommends google chrome) to automatically translate her page so it was quite labour intensive to translate her page manually using google translator, however, it was well worth it. The snickers bars I made were delicious - so delicious in fact that my family devoured them!!

Lets get started -

first make the chocolate bottom

Ingredients:
  • 250 g. good quality milk chocolate
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
Method:
  1. Melt chocolate in saucepan over low heat. Stir in peanut butter until combined.
  2. Pour mixture into a square pan (I used 8x8) lined with parchment paper. Spread into an even layer. Let the mixture harden in the fridge.
Next make the nougat layer

Ingredients:
  • 50g salted butter
  • 2 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup evaporated milk
  • 2 1/2 cups marshmallow fluff
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 2 1/2 cups salted peanuts, roughly chopped
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
Method:
  1. Melt butter in sauce pan over medium heat. Once butter is melted, add sugar and evaporated milk and bring mixture to a boil. Stir constantly. Heat through until sugar has dissolved.
  2. Add fluff, peanut butter and vanilla and stir until fluff and peanut butter are melted and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and fold in chopped peanuts.
  3. Let cool slightly and pour over chocolate base. Place in fridge to set up competely.
Next up, make the caramel layer.

Ingredients:
  • 400g toffee/ caramel (the kraft caramel squares work well here)
  • 1/2 cup whipping cream
Method:
  1. Melt toffee and whipping cream together in saucepan over medium heat until mixture is completely smooth. Remove from heat and pour over hardened nougat layer. Place in fridge to harden completely.
Finally, make the chocolate top:

Ingredients
  • 250 g good milk chocolate
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
Method:
  1. Melt chocolate over low heat in a medium saucepan. Add peanut butter and stir until melted and mixture is smooth. Pour over hardened caramel layer. Place back in fridge to set up completely.
Once bars have hardened and set up in the fridge, remove from the pan and cut into squares. Enjoy!

My family enjoyed these so much that I didn't get a chance to take any photos, so I borrowed a photo from Heidi's blog. Here's what they look like -
Photo not my own - used from Heidi's blog

I am planning to make them again to photograph them and will update this post with my own photos when I have a chance!

Can't wait to see what all the other group C bloggers came up with this month!

Happy baking my friends!

15 comments:

  1. Wow! This is something else. My daughter has egg allergies and can't eat a snickers bar, but now she can have these. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. I'm glad you enjoyed them! But am sorry for the trouble with the translation - however, it looks like you managed to do everything perfectly well :-)
    We often talk about these Snickers bars at home, and I think they will be remembered for a long time. If I was going to make them again, I think I would skip the top chocolate layer and cut out smaller squares - and then dip them in chocolate, so they resemble the real Snickers more.
    But no matter how you make them, they are truly yummy!!

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  3. Delicious! It looks like a fun project and I bet it's so worth making all those layers. Great SRC pick!

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  4. Those look delicious! FYI, you can type a URL into the translation box on translate.google.com--click on the link on the "translated" side, and it will open a translation of the whole page!

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  5. I think sounds amazing and delicious:)

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  6. I don't think I could ever pull off homemade snickers - except now I really want to give the recipe a try :)

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  7. oh my! i might just have to try these out, looks fabulously delicious!

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  8. Snickers Bars are my all time favorite candy bar. I can't imagine how much weight I would gain with a whole pan of them in my kitchen! I will have to be certain to give them out of the house and to a neighbor's! Great SRC selection. I will definitely make them...they are my favorite, you know.

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  9. I know I could not eat just one! Great SRC pick!

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  10. I'll take a batch please! These look great!

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  11. Yum! Snickers are my absolute favorite candy bar and making them homemade has been on my "to-do" list for quite some time now. Great pick and I'm glad to have had your blog for this swap. Check out my Pineapple "Ice Cream".

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  12. My sister has been begging me to make her these for the longest time. They look so good!

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  13. My husband would kill for these! Heidi was my first SRC assignment, and I had so much fun looking around her blog!

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  14. I love that everyone is making there own home made candy! I have no doubt your family gobbled them up before you could take pictures!

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