Caramel Chocolate Peanut Bars

Name: Caramel Chocolate Peanut Bars
Yield: Makes 36 bars
Ingredients: 1 cup (5 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1/4 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 5 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 1/2 cup packed (3½ ounces), light brown sugar; 20 , soft caramel candies; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 3 tablespoons, water; 5 , Snickers bars (2.07-ounces each), chopped; 2 tablespoons, milk; 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1/4 cup, roasted salted peanuts, chopped

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2007

Desserts or Baked Goods

Candy

Contest Recipes

Easy to prepare, but elegant enough for a dinner party, these cookies use real Snickers Bars in the filling.

SERVESMakes 36 bars

TIME1¼ hours, plus 4½ hours chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

This recipe for Caramel Chocolate Peanut Bars is easy to prepare, yet elegant enough to serve at a dinner party. For cleaner nut chopping, we placed the nuts in a heavy-duty zipper-lock bag and tapped them with a meat-pounding mallet until ...

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