Vegan Snickerz Bars
A fan favourite and one of the most popular recipes from the blog and my book No-Bake Vegan Desserts. With a delicious peanut nougat, date caramel and dairy free chocolate coating, these bars are so easy to make and taste amazing!
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Preparation time
25 min
Cook time
4 hr
Total time
265 minutes
Meal
- vegan-desserts
Servings
18
Ingredients
Base
- 290g/2 cups unsalted peanuts
- 10 medjool dates (pitted)
- ¼ tsp Himalayan pink salt/sea salt
Caramel
- 10 medjool dates (pitted)
- 125ml/½ cup rice milk
- 130g/1 cup crunchy peanut butter, divided into two
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp Himalayan pink salt/sea salt
- 145g/1 cup roasted peanuts
- 255g/9 oz vegan chocolate, for coating
- 1 tsp coconut oil (solid), for coating
Instructions
Base
- To make the base, blend the peanuts in your food processor until they form a light crumb.
- Add in the salt and medjool dates and blend further until completely combined.
- Line a 12 x 3½” or 8 x 8″ with parchment paper and press the mixture evenly into the base of
the dish using a spatula.
Caramel
- For the caramel, put the dates, rice milk, half cup of peanut butter, salt and vanilla extract in a
high-speed blender and blitz until completely smooth. Transfer the caramel to a bowl and add
the remaining half cup peanut butter, then stir well to combine.
Assembly
- Spread the caramel on top of the base using your spatula.
- Add the roasted peanuts on top of the caramel and press them down into the surface of the
caramel using your spatula. - Place in the freezer for at least 2 hours (overnight if possible).
- Remove the snickers slab from the baking tray and cut into 18 miniature bars or 12 large bars.
- Place the bars back in the freezer whilst you prepare the chocolate coating.
- Melt the chocolate and coconut oil over a double boiler.
- Dip the bars into the chocolate and sit them on top of a cooling rack to set.
- You can dip them a second time for a thicker layer of chocolate.
- Store the bars in an airtight container in the fridge.
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