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Oh and yes, there is so some brown butter in that cookie dough too.
Is anyone else so excited for Halloween?
Because I am! I have always loved Halloween, but not for the reasons you think. I was “too cool” for tricker treating by like seventh grade, but for me it was, and still is, not all about the candy.
Yeah right! Like anyone believes that. It’s maybe a lot about the candy. I mean anytime I get to buy Reese’s in the shape of pumpkins is a happy time. I am such a sucker for holiday gimmicks. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are my true weaknesses. Well, Thanksgiving does not really have any candy or super fun decorations, but there is the food. I kind of go all out with the Thanksgiving feast, so that is always yummy to look forward to.
Halloween though is all fun.
Fun food, fun costumes, fun Halloween movies. Little kids dressed up in the cutest costumes and of course, the excuse to eat Halloween candy all month… I mean all night, long. It’s good holiday.
Speaking of cute kids and their Halloween costumes, Asher has the world’s cutest costume this year.
Seriously, parents of young girls, listen up.
The Batarina.
You guys, I love this costume!
Where was this costume when I was younger?!? I think I was a witch for three years in a row, a pumpkin one year and then one year my cousin, Matt who is the same age as me, my younger brother and I were Oompa Loompas. Being an Oompa Loompa was the highpoint of my Halloween costumes. Kind of lame, I know.
But anyway, Asher looks so incredibly cute in this costume. She got striped purple tights to go underneath and little black heels that are the true topper to the outfit.
Yeah, I did say little black heels. That was all her idea, the girl is crazy and only five and she wants to wear heels already? My parents are in for a real good time with this one. I am telling you, she is going to be a wild one.
So seriously, if you guys are looking for a cute costume you have to check out the Batarina. SO cute. I am still dying over it, and also a little jealous that I am way too old to pull this costume off. Sometimes I so want to be five again!
Oh and another highlight of my Halloween’s past?
Avalon Drive and the houses that gave out the Malley’s Bars. Possibly one of the best parts of Cleveland, Ohio. Malley’s rules and jeez, I miss it! Actually, I don’t really since we actually order chocolate off their website and have it sent all the way out to Colorado. Yes, it is THAT good. Check them out too!
Unfortunately, I am currently out of Malley’s Chocolate Bars, the one and only thing that would have made these bars better.
These bars are insanely good. You are going to love them. It is everything you love about a Snickers bar, the nougat layer, the caramel and all the chocolate. But then I went and added a nice big layer of browned butter cookie dough. Yup, yup, yup! Cookie dough Snickers!
It’s incredible.
But then I went to take photos and they just needed a little something on top. Something fun and crunchy and maybe salty to go with all that caramel.
Enter the pretzels.
Pretzels, chocolate, caramel, nougat, COOKIE DOUGH! Guys, there are no words. Just so good.
There is a total of five layers, plus the pretzels topping so they take a couple of hours to fully come together, but the steps are simple and they are the perfect fall treat. And this may sound weird, but they are really good with a side of crispy honeycrisp apples. It’s like a Snicker cookie dough caramel apple. Oh man, does that just sound awesome? Ah huh, it does.
Happy Friday, indeed!
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pretzel Snickers Bars
Servings: 20 bars
Calories Per Serving: 395 kcal
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.
Ingredients
Bottom Layer
- 1 1/4 cups milk chocolate chips or can sub dark chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
Nougat layer
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup canned coconut milk or regular milk
- 1 1/2 cups marshmallow fluff
- 1 cup salted peanuts chopped roughly chopped
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Caramel
- 1 (14 ounce) bag of caramels
- 1/4 cup coconut milk or cream
Brown Butter Cookie Dough Layer
- 1 1/2 sticks butter
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream or coconut milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 -3/4 cup mini chocolate chips
Top chocolate layer
- 1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips or can sub dark chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup pretzels twist or sticks
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips melted
Instructions
- Thoroughly grease a 9x13 inch-baking pan. Melt 1 1/4 cups chocolate chips with 1/4-cup peanut butter in a saucepan or microwave, then pour into the baking dish and spread until even. Place in the fridge for 30 minutes or in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- While the chocolate hardens make the nougat layer. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add in sugar and milk, stirring until dissolved and bring to a boil. Let cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add in marshmallow fluff and vanilla, stirring until smooth. Turn off heat and fold in peanuts, then pour over bottom chocolate layer. Let cool completely, about 30 minutes or 15 minutes in the fridge.
- Make the caramel. Combine the caramels and cream in a saucepan over low heat. Let melt, stirring occasionally, until smooth, this took about 10 minutes for me. Pour over nougat layer and let cool completely, about 10 minutes.
- Make the Cookie Dough. In a heavy-bottomed sauce pan, melt the butter over medium heat until just browned. Butter will melt, foam, and froth, then begin to brown along the bottom. Whisk browned bits off of the bottom of the pan and pour into the bowl of a stand mixer or large bowl. Allow to cool 10 minutes.
- To the bowl add the brown sugar, cream or coconut milk and vanilla. Beat until combined, fluffy and light in color. Beat in the flour and salt until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips. Spread the cookie dough over the caramel layer, be carful not to press too hard into the caramel. You don't want to mix the two layers.
- Melt 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips with 1/4-cup peanut butter in a saucepan, or just microwave them, pour over caramel and spread until even. Sprinkle with the pretzels and drizzle with the remaining melted chocolate. Let cool and harden completely.
- Refrigerate for at least one hour before serving, then cut as desired. These can stay at room temperature, but they do get soft and gooey. My family personally likes them best kept in the fridge, but left out for 15 minutes or so before eating!
Notes
Snicker's base adapted from How Sweet It Is.
So Halloween? You guys down?
Hi all….
Thank yo for this recipe. Looks divine. I too, looking at the ingredients list wondered if milk, butter and fluff would “set up” enough to cut neatly into bars. I wonder if the ones who are not having runny issues are using marshmallows instead of fluff (which has gelatin in it to firm and stabilize it. When I make this, (and I say “when”, not “if”) I plan on softening 2 tsp gelatin (maybe I’ll add an entire envelope) to about 1 tbsp of the milk, then after all has boiled for 5 minutes per instructions, I will stir in the gelatin until dissolved. I think I would transfer to my KA bowl and with whipping attachment, whip til cool, then add the nuts. I think that would solve any runny issues and aerating that layer would not hurt it a bit. I do like the Peanut butter idea though. I bet this would feed a LOT of people. Super bowl time!
Mine always set up just fine, but your ideas sound great! I really hope you love these and they will be perfect for the Super Bowl!
Hi! These bars were so gorgeous and delicious, I made the last week and plan on making them again soon. They were that good! The only issue I had was keeping the nougat layer “solid”. I left the bars in the fridge 24/7 but ended up with a marshmellow-y mess in the pan. Any suggestions for how to make the layer stronger or a substitute for that layer? They were a little hard to transport. Great pictures and recipe! Thanks!!
Hey Sara!!
So glad you loved these bars! It is weird that your nougat layer was a mess, mine always sets up within minutes! Anyway, here is what I would do. Add a 1/4 cup peanut butter to the nougat layer and reduce the butter and coconut milk to 2 tablespoons. Hopefully that should do it! If things seem too thick in the end I would add 2 more tablespoons of milk. Let me know how it goes and thanks again!
Oh and Happy Thanksgiving!
Made this today and they are decadent. Love the mix of chocolate (milk and semi sweet) That salty and sweet contrast of the I added a tbs of dark rum to the caramel to knock down the artificial flavor. They get gooey very fast and i will work on that next time. This is really good. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Mari! So happy you loved these! 🙂
Oh wow! These bars are already amazing…and then you added cookie dough! Genius. Pinning 🙂
Thanks Sarah!
Hi I’m wanting to make these this weekend & was wondering if all the layers stay put?!?! I would like to cut and plate/display them & don’t want them to lose that STUNNING layered look. THX 🙂
Hey Gretchen! These totally keep their shape as long as you keep them cool in fridge and let them hang out in the fridge for about an hour before cutting. They will be perfect for displaying!
Let me know if you have any more questions and I hope you love these!
These bars look absolutely incredible! I love a good, over-the-top dessert, and these have some amazing flavors in them. I wanted to let you know that I featured your post, and one of your stunning photographs (with full credit and link-back) on my blog’s Weekend Wrap-Up. Thank you for sharing this fantastic recipe, and I hope you’re enjoying your weekend!
Here’s a link to the wrap-up in case you’re interested (feel free to stop by and grab a badge, if you like):
http://www.floptimism.com/2013/10/weekend-wrap-up-outward-love.html
Thank you so much!! So happy you are loving these!
Go-go-gorgeous! I’m so glad I stumbled across these–who am I kidding? I practically ran for these. And it looks like I will have to do some more running if I want to even consider eating–ahem, half a panful. Do you think I could get a workout from lifting this up and down in repetitions from the freezer to the counter? 😉 kill me now, girl. But let me make these first. Then I could DIE happy.
TOTALLY! LOL!! They are heavy bars, so I think it counts as something! 🙂
Thanks so much, Ala!
Wow, these look just over the top gorgeous – great recipe and fabulous pictures!! The Addition of the pretzels is such a clever idea, have to keep that in mind for the next homemade snicker bars (I’ll try something new and give this recipe a shot for sure!) 🙂
Thank you so very much, Sabrina!! 🙂
I need as much coffee in my life as possible: ESPECIALLY in Salted Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Snickers Bars. These look wonderful and a perfect snack.
haha! Thank you!
oh my goodness. so you basically took all my favorite things and put them into a bar 😀 they look sooooo incredible, and I can’t wait to make them! and I will definitely be adding a honeycrisp as a side snack 😉
The honeycrisp is so good with these! Hope you love them, Kelsey!
These bars are just mind-blowing Tieghan! It’s like everything wonderful in this world just got together 🙂 Pinned and just shared on Facebook!
Thank you so much, Trish! That is so nice of you to pin and share on facebook!! Thank you times 1000!
You’ve done it again! These are amazing!
Thank you so much!
Mmm… looks delicious! Love making layered bars like these!
Thank you so much, Alley!
I just finished making this,it turned out great. Thanks
Oh yay!! Thank you so much for making them and I am so glad you loved them!
I always get a little nervous when desserts have layers, but I think it’s time I conquer my fears with this recipe.
Don’t be nervous! These are pretty simple and totally worth it!
Thanks Kristi.