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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?
I could find only two brands of marshmallow creme at the store here, so tried your recommendations to cut the milk and the butter, and add a bit of peanut butter. Worked like a charm and these were delicious. We used brownies for the bottom layer and skipped the cookie dough layer — these are definitely going into the rotation. Thank you!
YAY!! So excited you loved these. THANKS!!
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My boyfriend and I made these over the weekend, and not only did we have an absolute blast preparing everything step by step, but the end result was just delicious. Thanks for such a great (and fun!) recipe! 🙂
Yeah!! So excited you guys loved these!! THANKS! 🙂
I live in CA and the stores here do not carry marshmallow fluff. Do you think I should try to make it myself and if so, can you recommend a recipe? Or should I try to order it online and have it shipped?
Thanks for any help, these look great and I want to make them for a special occasion for my twins.
Hey Margaret, I would just make it yourself, it’s pretty easy. Here is the recipe I would use: If you dont want to make it though, you can buy it on Amazon.
Hope you love these and let me know if you have any other questions.
I don’t understand the problem people are having with the recipe, mine turn out great and are loved by everyone!
I had a parent give me this recipe, I made two attempts to make this twice. My layers came together perfectly. and when I went to cut the bars it was a runny mess. *How did you ever get yours out of the pan this was impossible. We Don’t have marshmallow fluff here so I made my own. Can you share the brand of ingredients you used maybe I missed something. Thanks for posting..
Hey Veronica, it’s the fluff that is the issue. The store bought stuff is a little different than homemade. I do not know the ingredients used in store-bought. Was the fluff the only messy layer? Also, how long did you keep them in the fridge for? Hope we can figure this out for you!
Wow these look incredible, thanks for posting this up..
Simon
This is my 3rd time making a recipe from this blog, and i wonder: either i do not have the proper ingredients, or the recipes just don’t fit my palate. I always drool seeing the photos, and end up disappointed when tasting the actual product. Too much of everything, and not enough variety in taste despite lots of different ingredients.
I ended up freezing these bars, as it was absolutely impossible to get them hard enough in the fridge (specifically the marshmallow layer, and i used Fluff as recommended). They taste alright (and you can eat them straight from the freezer, like an ice , but not as incredible as the post made them out to be.
I have made them several times and have had no problems, especially when I changed from marshmallow cream to marshmallow fluff. I sent them in to an office and other places and the people all thought they were divine!
My cookie dough layer doesn’t (and didn’t ) look light and fluffy. Did I beat it long enough?? How long to you actually have to beat that? I did it at least 10-15 minutes, but it never got light or fluffy, just sticky like caramel. even adding the flour didn’t help a whole lot. They are in the fridge now, I hope they aren’t ruined because I didn’t beat them enough.
also, do you think these can be frozen?
I do think these can be frozen. Either before being baked or after. If you freeze before baking be sure to defrost them before baking as directed.
Baked???? I don’t see where anything gets baked, OMG, I cut them already and sent some to my sister’s office. How do you bake these?
Oh I am SO SORRY! I was thinking this was a different recipe. SO SORRY! No baking required for these. Hope they love them!
LOL, Thank you!! They were wonderful!!
I made these for my sister’s office and she sent me a text by 9 am saying I had a lot of OMG’s and people wanting more, more more!!! My husband loves them!!! Thanks so much for sharing! I am going to try using the marshmallow fluff this time because I also used marshmallow cream the first time and the nougat layer kept leaking out when cut. I didn’t even know there were 2 different marshmallow things in the jars until I read it on here! Thank you!!
Hey Nancy, you beat it plenty. I only beat mine for 3-5 minutes and that does the trick. I am sure you dough is fine. Hope you love these!! THANKS!
Hi tieghan. Can you tell me if you used fluff or the cream? They perform and set up differently and both aren’t available nationally. I’m just wondering if that may be the problem some are having and I’d like to have the correct ing when I make them next weekend. Thanks!
Hi Bryn, I used Marshmallow fluff. Hope you love these!! Thanks!
Tieghan! I am a fellow blogger but new follower to your incredible food blog! Oh my you’ve got my drooling left right and center here…thank you for all of the amazing recipes. I can see how much love and thought and time goes into each of your amazing photographs too. I’m off to share you’re lovely blog with my readers xxx
Thank you so much! It means a lot!
I made these for my mom’s party tonight. Needless to say, they were a hit! http://baby-kale.tumblr.com/post/80810451556/i-made-these-5-layer-bars-omg-so-good-from-bottom
Yay!! So happy you guys loved them!! Thanks!
Can you eliminate the peanut butter?
Hey Judy, you can sub the peanut butter with almond butter. Would that work?
Adding to say….I haven’t seen food porn look this “tittilating” in a long time! 😉 Great eye candy indeed. Excellent lighting, angle, sharpness, comp….well done photos!
Wow! Thank you so much!