Homemade Snickers Bars

Ingredients

• ¼ cup light corn syrup
• 2 Tbsp butter
• 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
• ⅛ cup peanut butter
• 1 dash salt
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 35 unwrapped Kraft caramels
• 1 cup dry-roasted unsalted peanuts
• 1 bag (12 oz) milk chocolate chips

Directions

1. With a mixer on high speed, combine the corn syrup, butter, vanilla, peanut butter, and salt until creamy. Slowly add the powdered sugar.
2. When the mixture reaches a dough-like consistency, press it into a lightly greased 9x9-inch pan and refrigerate.
3. Melt the caramels in a small pan over low heat. When soft, stir in the peanuts and pour over the chilled nougat layer. Refrigerate until firm.
4. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or microwave (2 minutes on high, stirring halfway).
5. Cut the firm slab into 2x1-inch bars. Set each bar on a fork, dip in the melted chocolate, and tap off the excess.
6. Set the bars on waxed paper at cool room temperature until the chocolate hardens — several hours for the best set, or 30 minutes in the fridge to speed it up. Makes about 2 dozen.