#snickers candy bars

Daily writing promptWhat’s your favorite candy?View all responses Once upon a time, I lived on Snickers Bars. I started eating them on a consistent basis in College. All night Loaf ‘n Jugs and 7-Elevens were far in the future and the town I went to school in pretty well rolled the sidewalks up at six. So, if you were up studying and got hungry, you were up the creek. I always had a half dozen…

I amaze myself, I really do.

And not in a overly confident kind of amaze.

I am seriously surprised that I pull off some of the treats I make. Like these adorable bunnies and lil' chicks for example.

Anyone that really knows me, knows that I am not always the most graceful person.

I have been known to pour chocolate candiquik all over white pants, vanilla all over black pants, you get the drift...

The good news is, these bars require no tedious decorating, no drawing on cute little faces, no crazy assembly, nada.

If you can make almond bark, you totally got this.

There is no excuse in the world not to make these.

Unless you don't like caramel, chocolate, and Snickers. If that's the case, I don't even know where to begin.

I found these over at how Sweet it is. Her photography, recipes, everything...beautiful.

Homemade Snickers

printable recipe

lightly adapted from How Sweet It Is who received it from Nikki, who lightly adapted it from an old Taste of Home recipe

yield: one 9×13 pan (approx 24 servings)

bottom layer:

10 oz Chocolate CandiQuik (5 squares)

1/4 cup peanut butter

Line your baking pan with aluminum foil and thoroughly coat with non stick spray. Melt CandiQuik according to package directions (*reduce heating time since we are not heating the entire tray); stir in peanut butter, then pour into the baking dish and spread out evenly. Place in the fridge to 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 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 cup salted peanuts chopped, roughly chopped

Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add in sugar and milk, stirring until dissolved and bring to a boil. Let boil for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add in marshmallow fluff, peanut butter and vanilla, stir until smooth. Remove from heat and fold in peanuts, then pour over the bottom chocolate layer. Return to fridge to 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 (about 10 minutes). Pour over nougat layer and let cool completely.

top chocolate layer:

10 oz Chocolate CandiQuik (5 squares)

1/4 cup peanut butter

Melt CandiQuik in 30 second increments until smooth; stir in peanut butter, then pour on top of the caramel layer and quickly spread out evenly. Place in the fridge to let cool and harden completely.

Refrigerate for at least one hour before serving and cut into squares.

I would store them in the fridge. They can be kept at room temperature but they do get gooey!

Sometimes I tend to analyze things that I shouldn't. I take the time to waste my precious brain cells with clear, rational thoughts on stuff that is intended to be unrealistic. I don't know why I do this or how to stop the cycle?

Snickers has a commercial in which a woman is asking a focus group which item tasted better. The problem: 1. The focus group consists of 2 sharks 2. The items they ate where people.

My Analysis: 1. Why are the sharks calmy talking to a human about how good other humans tasted? Shouldn't they want to eat the human they're talking to? 2. Sharks live in water yet these 2 sharks are in a conference room sans aqua. 3. Millions have been spent on the study of whale & dolphin communication. Do scientists know that sharks speak english? And since sharks live with whales & dolphins why don't scientists just ask the sharks how whales & dolphins communicate? 4. One human was fed a Snickers then fed to sharks who, in turn, enjoyed the human who ate the Snickers. If the sharks could identify the taste of a Snickers inside a human, I'm pretty sure they would have enjoyed the Snickers without the use of humans. Innocent people did not have to die! 5. Sharks talk?! Shouldn't we reason with them & ask them to stop their random attacks on beach-goers?

I could go on but I think you get the gist of my much needed analysis of unrealistic situations. Not only have I wasted much thought on this Snickers commercial but I have also taken the time to make a post and draw you into my twisted mind.