{"id":439,"date":"2025-03-16T01:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/homemade-snickers-bars\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:29:41","slug":"homemade-snickers-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/homemade-snickers-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Snickers Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bottom chocolate layer<\/strong><br \/>\n1 1\/4 cups milk chocolate chips<br \/>\n1\/4 cup peanut butter<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThoroughly grease your 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nougat layer<\/strong><br \/>\n1\/4 cup unsalted butter<br \/>\n1 cup granulated sugar<br \/>\n1\/4 cup evaporated milk<br \/>\n1 1\/2 cups marshmallow fluff<br \/>\n1\/4 cup peanut butter<br \/>\n1 1\/2 cup salted peanuts chopped, roughly chopped<br \/>\n1 tsp vanilla extract<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caramel layer<\/strong><br \/>\n1 14-ounce bag of caramels<br \/>\n1\/4 cup whipping cream<\/p>\n<p>Combine ingredients in a saucepan over low heat. Let melt, stirring occasionally, until smooth \u2013 this took about 10 minutes for me. Pour over nougat layer and let cool completely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top chocolate layer<\/strong><br \/>\n1 1\/4 cups milk chocolate chips<br \/>\n1\/4 cup peanut butter<\/p>\n<p>Melt ingredients together in a saucepan or microwave, then pour over caramel and spread until even. Let cool and harden completely.<\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n<p>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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bottom chocolate layer 1 1\/4 cups milk chocolate chips 1\/4 cup peanut butter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bars","category-dessert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}