Jennifer Garner Made a Homemade Snickers Bar — So We Made a Homemade Snickers Bar

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Controversial opinion: Snickers are the perfect chocolate bar. They’ve obtained all of it — the candy, the salty, the chewy, the crunchy. Jennifer Garner clearly agrees, since she went by means of the difficulty of whipping up selfmade Snickers bars herself. Luckily for us, she documented the progress on her Instagram, and the tip outcome appears price the additional work. Especially contemplating that her model is generally vegan (barring the honey).

While Garner admits that making the homemade candy bars was “a lot of effort” and says she “would not do it on a regular basis,” her mmm face on the first chunk reveals that the additional steps are in all probability price it. Making selfmade Snickers bars is not onerous, essentially — it simply takes extra time than operating to the closest drugstore to choose up a packaged bar.

Garner’s selfmade Snickers bars are tailored from Half Baked Harvest‘s recipe, however that is not the one one floating round. We tried our hand at a comparable vegan Snickers recipe, which makes use of almonds and maple syrup to make the nougat, Medjool dates and coconut oil for a caramel-y filling, and darkish chocolate to encase the filling (although you possibly can swap it for milk chocolate, if that is your choice).

Soft, chewy, and with the right peanut crunch, these fulfill a Snickers craving after which some.

You’ll begin by mixing up some contemporary almonds with maple syrup and whole-wheat flour, basically making almond butter, however with a thicker, sweeter consistency that you could kind into a nougat bar. (You can even use store-bought almond butter if you wish to make this even less complicated.)

Then, you may make the “caramel” sauce and smear it over the nougat earlier than urgent some signature peanuts on prime. (Bonus to creating selfmade Snickers bars: you possibly can swap out the peanuts for one more crunchy different you probably have peanut allergy symptoms.)

At this stage, you could be able to dig in — however after all, you have to coat every bar in decadent darkish chocolate first.

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The most vital half: do not be intimidated by the thought of creating a selfmade sweet bar. As you possibly can see from Garner’s Instagram, these selfmade Snickers recipes are simple sufficient to accommodate some error or uncertainty — and loads of kitchen singing (Garner belts out a minimum of three completely different tunes over the course of her video) — so have enjoyable, and remember to put aside a few of the bars for your self solely, since your family and friends might be snapping them up quicker than you may anticipate.

— Additional reporting by Mirel Zaman

Ingredients

1. For the nougat:
   2 cups uncooked almonds (or 1 cup store-bought almond butter)
   4 tablespoons maple syrup
   2 tablespoons whole-wheat flour
   1/8 teaspoon salt

1. For the filling:
   12 giant, delicate Medjool dates (18 small), pitted (about 3/4 cup packed)
   1/3 cup water
   Almost 1/4 teaspoon salt
   1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
   1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted
   1/4 cup chopped peanuts

1. For the dark-chocolate coating:
   1 cup dark-chocolate chips
   1 teaspoon coconut oil

Directions

1. Place the almonds within the meals processor, and let it go for a couple of minutes. Every 30 seconds or so, scrape the edges of the container to assist all the things combine till it kinds a clean, almond butter consistency.
2. Add the maple syrup, flour, and salt, and blend for one more 20 seconds or so till mixed.
3. Place a piece of parchment paper on a small slicing board, and kind the combination into a rectangle that is about half an inch thick. Pop within the freezer for half-hour.
4. To make the “caramel” filling, mix the pitted dates, salt, vanilla, coconut oil, and water in a high-speed blender, and mix till fully clean and creamy. You could have to cease and scrape down the blender a couple of occasions to verify the caramel is mixed uniformly.
5. Remove the nougat layer from the freezer, and unfold the caramel filling evenly excessive, utilizing a spatula to clean.
6. Sprinkle the chopped peanuts on prime of the caramel layer, and use your fingers to softly press the chopped nuts into the caramel filling. Place within the freezer to set for 45 to 60 minutes (in a single day is OK).
7. Melt the chocolate chips and coconut oil in a microwave-safe bowl till clean, about 45 seconds.
8. Remove the sweet bar from the freezer, and slice the rectangle into 10 full-size bars. Slice these full-size bars in half, to create 20 “fun-size” bars. Place half within the freezer.
9. Use a spoon to unfold the melted darkish chocolate over the tops, sides, and backside of every bar. Return the chocolate-coated bars to the parchment-lined slicing board, and return to the freezer. Pull out the opposite half of the bars, coat these with melted chocolate, and place within the freezer. Allow bars to set for a minimum of 20 minutes earlier than serving. The longer the bars set within the freezer, the firmer they get.
10. Store leftovers within the freezer.

Information

Category

Desserts, Candy

Cuisine

North American

Yield

20 mini bars

Total Time

3 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds