A while ago, I set myself a goal to give up on sugar and exclude it as much as possible from my day-to-day routine. While it worked for almost 2 months, except using a bit of it in the morning coffee, as soon as some events took place in my life, I ended up constantly reaching for anything sweet, no matter the time of the day.
I know this is not a good thing, and I surely don't encourage anyone to do it, but instead of getting lots of sweets from the supermarket that most likely have a lot more sugar than mentioned on the packaging anyway, I thought I could make myself something sweet at home, which helps me have control over what I eat and how much. And for that, I ended up making the homemade version of the popular Snickers bars I am sure everyone has heard about, which, surprisingly, turned out a lot better than the original!
Cake top ingredients:
- 8x egg whites
- a pinch of salt
- 100g sugar
- 250g nuts
- 50g flour
- 10g baking powder
Cream ingredients:
- 150g sugar
- 250g butter
- 8x egg yolks
- 250g peanuts
- 250g white chocolate
- 2x oil tablespoons
- 250g dark chocolate
The first step is to start with the cake top, as you'll have enough time to prepare the cream while this will stay in the oven.
For this, I separated the yolks from the whites for 8 eggs and used a mixer on high speed to beat the whites along with a pinch of salt until they became a solid foam.
As soon as the foam was ready, I gradually added 100g of sugar and blended it together with a spoon slowly. I did the same for the 250g of nuts, 50g of flour and 10g of baking powder.
If you check the pictures, you'll see I added everything together from the start and mixed them together, but if you want to make sure everything is distributed equally, incorporate each ingredient one by one.
Once everything was incorporated well, I transfered the new composition in a rectangular tray where I also added a baking sheet on top to avoid having the cake top sticking and breaking during transfer. Both methods work the same.
I've set the oven on 170°C for 30 minutes and got the cake top inside. You'll know when the cake top is ready based on its colour, but you can still prick it with a toothpick to check if it's cooked properly.
If everything seemed easy so far, get ready for a bit more action on the cream part, lol!
First, I've put a large pot on the stove and let it warm. Then I added 150g of sugar and let it fully melt, mixing from time to time.
Once the sugar turned into caramel, I added 250g of butter and let it melt as well, but get ready for the next step, as it won't take too much for the butter to be fully incorporated already!
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Once we have the butter as part of our cream, it's time for the 8 egg yolks to be added, but be careful here as you'll need to keep mixing the whole composition really fast to avoid the yolks getting cooked.
They have to be fully disolved within the caramel before they start getting fried which happens almost instantly if you don't mix fast enough. You can pre-mix the yolks before adding them to the cream to avoid losing time breaking the yolks as I did.
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Once the eggs have been successfully incorporated, I added the peanuts and mixed everything again for a couple more minutes until the cream got a bit harder to mix.
As soon as you feel all ingredients have been mixed well, let it rest for 15 minutes.
By the time I finished with the cream, the top cake was also ready, so I took it out of the oven and let it rest as well but used this time to melt 250g of white chocolate and 250g of dark chocolate along with 2 tablespoons of oil within each bowl.
Then I've set the top cake upside down so the bottom part that was protected by the backing sheet will represent the inside part of the Snickers. In this way you keep the soft part in the middle and have a crunchy effect on the sides.
On top of it, I added the white chocolate I had melted previously, and spread it as best as I could.
Then I added the caramel and peanuts to the cream. This was still a bit warm but not hot.
If you let it cool entirely, it will be very hard to spread it on the top.
Last but not least, I added the melted dark chocolate on top to cover everything.
Then I let it rest for at least 2 hours before serving.
You can take this moment to also cut the sides of the cake to see the inside section, and then slice everything into Snickers bars. But I preferred it this way, as I absolutely loved how the chocolate was pouring on the sides.
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Personally, I forgot to take a picture of the slicing moment because my whole family and I ate the Snickers in a matter of time. And the surprise came when we actually realised it tasted a lot healthier and better than the original Snickers bar we got from the market. Not to mention how much time and money we saved by cooking an entire tray in the amount of time we would spend on the way to the market and back home!
Sounds tasty? Don't forget to share a picture in the comments if you are cooking this, I promise you won't regret it!
Other food recipes I shared on the chain from the Tasty Sunday series:
- Pasta with sauce, ham and cheese
- Babka Sweet Bread
- Rainbow Painted Eggs
- Omelette with vegetables and cheese
- Homemade Hamburgers
- Smoothie with fruits and cereals
- Tiramisu Cake Recipe
- Elderflower Cocktail
- Homemade Doner Kebab
- Simple Homemade Rice Milk
- Banana Oatmeal Crumb Cake
- Chocolate Profiterole Cake
- Vegetarian Hamburger
- Traditional Turkish Dish with Mushrooms
- Protean American Pancakes
- Baked Muffins with Protein
- Healthy Cake Recipe
- Homemade Snickers Recipe
Gabriela Travels is a Curator for Worldmappin and Hive Gaming communities, but also the FOUNDER of "Festival Mania" who started this community from the passion of attending various festivals and with the purpose of encouraging more people to explore festivals all around the world and share their experiences.
At the same time, Gabriela is an independent Graphic Design Freelancer since 2019 completing over 600+ orders in this time and collaborating with various businesses and people from all over the globe.
Additionally, Gabriela has her own corner on the internet since 2017 where she writes various articles for her blog, the most popular being the travel ones (350+ articles written on this field), but also approaching other topics as well, like game and book reviews, lets plays, movie and series reviews, photography posts, cooking recipes and more, boosting the total number of articles written to 850+ blog posts.
Gabriela is also a gamer since she was 11 years old and gaming remains one of her biggest passions along with traveling, owning a YouTube channel for each of the two.
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