Homemade Snickers Bars (Vegan & Gluten Free)
These Homemade Snickers Bars (Vegan & Gluten Free) are a healthier version of the traditional Snickers we all know and love. They are dairy-free, gluten-free and contain a lot of wholefood ingredients like nuts and dates which makes them the perfect afternoon pick-me-up!
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Servings: bars
Ingredients
Crust
- ¾ cup cashews
- ½ cup (60g) gluten-free oats *could also use normal oats
- ½ cup (70g) blanched, roasted hazelnuts *or sub any other nuts
- 4 Medjool dates
- 1 tbsp (40g) peanut butter
Caramel Layer
- ½ cup (120ml) full fat coconut milk
- 6 tablespoon maple syrup
- 3 heaped tablespoon (100g) smooth peanut butter
- tiny pinch of salt
- ½ cup (70g) peanuts
Chocolate Layer
- 125 g (vegan) dark chocolate
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
You can find detailed step-by step-photos above the recipe card.
Instructions
- Add all of the base layer ingredients to a food processor and blend until a sticky mass forms.
- It might take a couple of minutes for the nuts to release their natural oils and the mass to become less crumbly and more sticky
- Make sure you fold down the sides of your food processor every minute or so.
- Once all the ingredients are broken down, line a cake tin with parchment paper.
- Press the crust into the cake tin (mine was 22x15 cm), using a spoon and your fingers.
- To make the caramel layer, put coconut milk, maple syrup and peanut butter into a saucepan and bring to boil.
- Reduce the heat and let simmer for a couple of minutes while constantly stirring with a whisk until the sauce has thickened.
- Add a tiny pinch of salt (omit if you're not a fan of salted caramel).
- Spoon caramel over the base layer, then sprinkle peanuts over the caramel layer.
- Freeze for about 1h, afterwards cut them into equal sized bars.
- Gently heat coconut oil and chocolate to prepare the chocolate glaze.
- Coat your snickers bars in chocolate- you can either fully coat them or only drizzle over some chocolate with a spoon.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 bar. | Calories: 491kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 35g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 16g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 0.5mg | Sodium: 22mg | Potassium: 534mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 9IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 76mg | Iron: 5mg
All nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates.
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