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If you have goblins and witches and Spidermen and princesses at your house, you are bound to have leftover Halloween candy. Rather than leave it strewn about to tempt you, how about using it wisely?
And by wisely, I mean in these Snickers Cookies, which are the perfect combo of cookie and candy. They take a rich, short, peanut buttery cookie dough and pair it with the country’s most popular candy bar.
It doesn’t get much better than that!
I found the recipe at InsideBruCrewLife, where author Jocelyn, of Indiana, tempts us with sweet treats such as Caramel Apple Scones, Oatmeal Fudge Bars, Nutter Butter Truffle Cupcakes, and let’s not forget Sour Cream Coffee Cake! I was assigned to mine her blog for great ideas as part of my participation in the “Secret Recipe Club,” a monthly game in which each player is secretly assigned someone else’s food blog to explore and highlight.
Jocelyn is one of those people who does it all — she loves photography, scrapbooking, baking, crafting, her darling family, and expresses her creative crafty side at her Etsy shop, The Trendy Owl. It was fun to explore InsideBruCrewLife and see all her amazing sugary creations! I recommend you take a spin over there if you have a sweet tooth.
Thanks, Secret Recipe Club, for a fun excuse to surf the web, and thanks Jocelyn, for a new favorite cookie!
Recipe: Snickers Cookies
Summary: A rich, peanut buttery cookie recipe is a great way to use up all those fun size Snickers Bars left over from Halloween!
Ingredients
1/2 cup sugar- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) {I used unsalted butter}
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 10-12 fun-size Snickers candy bars, chopped
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375F degrees.
- Combine first 6 ingredients (sugar through vanilla) and mix well.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix. Stir in Snickers pieces.
- Drop by large teaspoonfuls on baking sheet. Keep 2 inches apart so the dough can spread.
- Bake for 10-11 min.
- Makes about 3 dozen. {I made about 50 cookies.}
Preparation time: 10 minute(s)
Cooking time: 10 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 25 {2 cookies per serving if you make 50 cookies}
Culinary tradition: USA (General)
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I am so glad you liked the cookies! I had to laugh because there is never such a thing as leftover candy in our house. When I want to bake, I have to go buy another bag! Thank you for such an awesome post…I was flattered so much!!! You are awesome!
What a wonderful way to use all that excess Halloween candy. My girls got boatloads of Snicker bars this year!
Jenn
Snickers is (are?) my husband’s favorite candy bar – I’d have to hide them from him before I made these cookies. They look fabulous!
Cyndi,
I totally agree.
FIRST, hide the Snickers. Then, make these cookies!
Can’t go wrong with adding snickers to cookies. They look so good!
Fallon,
Exactly. Although in some houses, there is no such thing as LEFTOVER candy!
Yummy! I love snickers in cookies. Your cookies look so good.
Dorothy,
(love your name, by the way… : )
thanks! They didn’t last long around here, with 2 kids.
Wow these look absolutely delicious, what a great choice for SRC! Love your blog, so glad to be a new follower! xoxo
Oh, these will definitely be made in my house. I knew I bought the mini snickers for a reason!
Hello from a fellow SRC member of group D. These cookies look so delicious. Great idea for using up left over Halloween candy! I love snickers!!!
These look and sound amazing! So glad I found your blog through the SRC–will definitely put some of my leftover candy in some cookies 🙂
Great Way to use up Halloween candy!
Those are pure sin ….
Yumm … You are correct, you can’t have snickers lounging around the house, these cookie look perfect.
I’m from Group C but I’m an honorary Group D this week. Snickers are my hubby’s favorite candy bar, he’d love it if I made these.
i usually make candy bark with extra candy but this sounds so good too!
Yum! Peanut butter and snickers… What’s not to love? Dropping by from the SRC. Great recipe.
Great idea for using up the candy and so appropriate today, great SRC choice.
If you haven’t already, I’d love for you to check out my Group ‘A’ & ‘C’ SRC recipes this month: Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies and Thin Mint Irish Coffee.
Lisa~~
Cook Lisa Cook
These look almost as dangerous as having the candy around 🙂
Becca,
Exactly right!
Hi! I just found you through the secret recipe club. Love your blog! I’m a new follower.
We would love to invite you over to visit our blog and link up to our weekly themed blog hop called Everyday Sisters Sharing Sundays. This week’s theme is SWEET and SAVORY! We hope to see you there. http://everydaysisters.blogspot.com/2011/10/everyday-sisters-sharing-sunday-19.html
Ellen
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