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Food Porn: Homemade Snickers

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Illinois State chapter.

Obsessed with Snickers bars like I am? Sometimes you just crave that little taste of chocolate. For me, making things homemade makes me feel accomplished. And of course if I make it, it makes me feel like its okay to eat it! At least I put in a little work, right? You can make your favorite candy bar in just FOUR steps!
Here we go….

Bottom chocolate layer
1 ¼ cup milk chocolate chips
¼ cup peanut butter

Thoroughly grease a 9×13 baking pan. Melt the ingredients together in a saucepan or in the microwave.
Then pour into the baking pan and spread out evenly. Let cool and harden completely.

Nougat layer
¼ cup unsalted butter
1 cup granulated sugar
¼ cup evaporated milk
1 ½ cup marshmallow fluff
¼ cup peanut butter
1 ½ cup chopped salted peanuts
1 tsp vanilla extract

Melt putter 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. Stir until smooth. Turn off heat and fold in peanuts. Then pour over bottom chocolate layer. Let cool completely.

Caramel layer
1 14-ounce bag of caramels
¼ cup whipping cream

Combine ingredients in a saucepan over low heat. Let melt, stirring occasionally until smooth (takes about 10 minutes). Pour over nougat layer and let cool completely.

Top chocolate layer
1 ¼ cup milk chocolate chips
¼ cup peanut butter

Melt ingredients together in a saucepan or microwave.
Pour over caramel and spread until even. Let cool and harden completely.

Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving, and then cut then into bars.
Now you can enjoy your favorite Halloween candy homemade!

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Megan Maginity

Illinois State

Megan is a sophomore Journalism major at Illinois State University, with a minor in Creative Writing. She balances her time between class, her sorority- Gamma Phi Beta, and writing for the college newspaper- The Daily Vidette. When she’s not busy, Meg likes to shop for the best sales, rollerblade, hang out with friends or watch reruns of Sex and The City. Becoming a campus correspondent/editor-in-chief was a great accomplishment for her because she is an aspiring writer, hoping to take on the world of mass media after graduation in 2013.