Healthy Homemade Protein Snickers
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These Healthy Homemade Protein Snickers are such an easy and delicious fix for your favorite candy bar craving!
They’re the perfect combination of sweet & salty, and smooth & crunchy!
They’re gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free, and have a boost of protein!
You’ve got a smooth nougat layer, a gooey caramel filling, salty roasted peanuts, all wrapped in rich sea salted dark chocolate!
There is so much to love in each and every bite!
Why You’ll Love These Healthy Homemade Protein Snickers
- They’re gluten free, refined sugar free, and dairy free
- They’re completely no bake
- You can slice them into smaller squares for an easy grab & go sweet treat
- You’ll be so satisfied you won’t even be tempted by store bought!
Key Ingredients
- Key Ingredients
- Almond flour – grain free flour to help bind the stickiness of the pure maple syrup & coconut oil together into a shortbread dough
- Vanilla Protein Powder – acts as a flour instead of more almond flour, boosting the protein content
- Peanut Butter – make sure you get a runny/drippy peanut butter (not the hard solid part that tends to accumulate on the bottom of the jars), as this will yield in the gooeiest caramel filling. I always opt for organic peanut butter, since peanuts are a heavily sprayed GMO crop
- Collagen – adds a boost of protein, it dissolves right away when whisked into a warm liquid (like the melted coconut oil), and it adds to the gooeyness, too. It can be left out without overly changing the texture of the caramel
- Dark Chocolate – a rich chocolate, and don’t forget the flakey sea salt on top, perfectly compliments the sweetness from the caramel layer. My favorite is Pascha 85% organic dark chocolate. I also like their 70% stevia sweetened dark chocolate
How to Make Healthy Homemade Protein Snickers
- Combine nougat ingredients together, then press down into a 9×5 loaf tin lined with parchment paper. Place in the freezer while you make the caramel
- Mix together drippy nut butter, syrup, vanilla, coconut oil, and collagen until smooth
- Pour overtop base layer, sprinkle peanuts overtop, and freeze for 45 min
- Melt chocolate and coconut oil. You will have extra, but you want enough to dunk your bars to fully coat
- Slice your Snickers into 7 long bars, or smaller squares if you prefer
- Dip in chocolate, dab to allow excess to drip off, then place on parchment paper
- Optionally sprinkle with flakey sea salt
- Place in the fridge for an addition 10 min for chocolate to harden
- Enjoy!
- Store in the fridge
I love a good layered dessert, because it feels like you’re getting multiple desserts in each bite!
Variations for Dietary Preferences
- Peanuts – can sub for cashew butter or sunbutter
- Almond flour – can sub for oat flour in the shortbread base. If it’s too crumbly add a little bit more syrup
- Coconut oil – can sub for another neutral oil, such as algae oil or avocado oil
- Protein powder – can be subbed for oat flour
- Collagen – if you’d prefer not to use it just leave it out. It adds a bit to the gooeyness, but the caramel will still taste great without it
You can place unused chocolate in the fridge to use for your next recipe! You’ll have extra. Alternatively, you can drizzle chocolate just overtop the bars instead of dunking to fully coat them
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If you make these Healthy Homemade Protein Snickers I’d love to your thoughts! Or tag me on social media so I can see your creations!
Ingredients
Nougat
- 3/4 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup vanilla protein powder
- 2 tbsp pure maple syrup
- 2 tbsp melted coconut oil
- 1 tsp almond butter
Caramel
- 1/3 cup cashew butter or peanut butter or a mix of both!
- 2 1/2 tbsp medjool date syrup or maple syrup
- 1 tbsp melted coconut oil
- 1 heaping tbsp collagen peptides
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/3 cup roasted peanuts
Coating
- 1 cup dark chocolate
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
Instructions
- Combine nougat ingredients together, then press down into a 9×5 loaf tin lined with parchment paper. Place in the freezer while you make the caramel
- Mix together drippy nut butter, syrup, vanilla, coconut oil, and collagen until smooth
- Pour overtop base layer, sprinkle peanuts overtop, and freeze for 45 min
- Melt chocolate and coconut oil. You will have extra, but you want enough to dunk your bars to fully coat
- Slice your Snickers into 7 long bars, or smaller squares if you prefer
- Dip in chocolate, dab to allow excess to drip off, then place on parchment paper
- Optionally sprinkle with flakey sea salt
- Place in the fridge for an addition 10 min for chocolate to harden
- Enjoy!
- Store in the fridge
Notes
You can also just drizzle melted chocolate overtop, versus dunking the entire bar into the chocolate
Please scroll up a tad in this post to see a list of variations and substitutions