Peanut Butter Caramel Homemade Healthy Snickers

Peanut Butter Caramel Homemade Healthy Snickers | Raw, vegan and gluten free homemade snickers made without any refined sugar!

Ok so I know it’s a pretty bold claim to call these Snickers healthy. I’m not insane, I know they can’t take the place of a salad, though if it were up to me they would be a complete food group. They are, alas, miles, kilometres, acres, oceans healthier than the packaged Snickers you and I can pick up at any service station or supermarket.

Yes, these healthy snickers are still a dessert. They’re sweet and decadent, so don’t be fooled into thinking you can have the whole batch in one sitting. Two, maybe. All of them, eeerm, no.

It’s made with all natural ingredients, and that includes the peanut butter. I used the crunchy peanut butter from Pic’s, which is one of my favourite brands that uses high-oleic peanuts from Australia which don’t seem to go rancid. Rancid nuts are a big no-no. Also, only two ingredients. TWO! Peanuts and salt. No sugar, no palm oil, nada. Make sure the peanut butter you buy and use, no matter where in the world you live, is as simple as can be.

Peanut Butter Caramel Homemade Healthy Snickers | Raw, vegan and gluten free homemade snickers made without any refined sugar!        Peanut Butter Caramel Homemade Healthy Snickers | Raw, vegan and gluten free homemade snickers made without any refined sugar!

Peanut Butter Caramel Homemade Healthy Snickers
 
Serves: 8
Ingredients
For the Nougat
  • ½ cup / 75g cashews, soaked for 4 hours
  • 3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla powder or extract
  • ½ cup / 50g almond or peanut flour
  • 1 tablespoon coconut flour
For the Caramel
Chocolate Coating
  • 100g of good quality dark chocolate
Instructions
  1. Add all the nougat ingredients, except nut flour, into a food processor or high speed blender and blend until smooth. Add flour and blend until fully combined.
  2. Spread the mixture evenly onto a 20x20cm (8x8inch) baking tray lined with baking paper, smoothing out the top, and place in the freezer while you make the caramel.
  3. To make the caramel, add the coconut milk and rapadura sugar into a pan and cook until it becomes a caramel, 15-20 minutes, swirling the pan frequently. Remove from the heat and stir through the crunchy peanut butter and set aside to cool.
  4. Remove nougat base from the freezer and evenly spread the peanut butter caramel, smoothing out the top.
  5. Place back in the freezer and let set for 1 hour to set.
  6. When ready, melt the chocolate in a water bath and slice the set snickers into 8 bars.
  7. Using two forks, dip the snickers into the chocolate, shaking off the excess and placing on a rack to drip. Repeat until all bars have been dunked, transfer back to the baking tray and place in the freezer to set, about 15 minutes.
  8. Keep in freezer and remove a few minutes before enjoying, to soften a bit!
Peanut Butter Caramel Homemade Healthy Snickers | Raw, vegan and gluten free homemade snickers made without any refined sugar!

There are 12 comments

  1. Lauren Kay

    I just had to say, that yes, the snickers look amazing…..BUT more importantly I was in Hawaii this past week and went to a market that had Pic’s peanut butter–I got a jar and brought it back to the hotel (kind of pb obsessed) and after first bite, I told my husband I had to get another jar to bring back home to Arizona! It’s so so good–Unfortunately not so easy for me to get where I live but I will figure out a way!

  2. Marina Moreno

    These look AMAZING! I can’t wait to try this. Is creamed coconut like coconut butter?

  3. Shamsi

    It doesn’t say what the water is for!?? I used it in the caramel mixture – I hope that is right!? 🙂

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