Eat-More Bar Squares. An easy candy confection!
Eat-More Bar Squares. An easy candy confection! These chewy and crunchy candy squares are the perfect marriage of peanut and chocolate flavours. Great for gift giving at the Holidays too.
Originally published Nov 2016.
These Eat-More Bar Squares have been around for a long time. If I recall correctly, I first saw the recipe on the side of a peanut butter jar.
Some might call these no bake cookie squares. The absence of flour though, or any oven baking at all, plus the method and ingredients used, make them clearly more of a candy to me.
Regardless, Eat-More bars are very easy to make and if you have peanut allergy issues. Any other nut butter and nuts should work just as well; like almond or cashew butter.
If you stack them with little squares of parchment paper between them, you can drop them into little clear cellophane bags, tie the top with a festive ribbon and give them as great gifts for Christmas too.
Looking for more cookie inspiration?
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Originally published Nov 2016.
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Eat More Bar Squares - an easy candy confection!
Eat-More Bar Squares - an easy candy confection! These chewy and crunchy candy squares are the perfect marriage of peanut and chocolate flavours. Great for gift giving at the Holidays too.
Ingredients
- 1 cup corn syrup
- ¾ cup peanut butter
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips, semi sweet or dark are best
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups roasted peanuts, salted or unsalted
Instructions
- You will need to pay constant attention to this mixture as it cooks, stirring almost constantly or the mixture will burn. Be very careful. It will get quite hot.
- Lightly grease the bottom and sides of a 9x9 inch pan and line both the bottom and sides with parchment paper.
- Heat the corn syrup over medium-low to medium heat until it is hot and almost boiling, stir in the peanut butter and vanilla and heat for another couple of minutes before stirring in the chocolate chips.
- Boil this mixture gently for 4 minutes only, stirring and scraping the entire bottom of the pan as it cooks. A silicone spatula is ideal for this.
- Remove from heat and stir in the peanuts.
- Carefully add the mixture to the prepared pan. You will need to use the back of a tablespoon or a silicone spatula to press and spread the mixture evenly into the pan.
- Let cool completely for several hours at room temperature before lifting the batch out onto a cutting board and cutting into 25 - 36 squares with a large sharp knife. I prefer them smaller because they are very candy-like.
- Store in an airtight container with sheets of parchment paper between the layers if you are stacking them.
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Nutrition Information
Yield
36Serving Size
36 candy squaresAmount Per Serving Calories 141Total Fat 9gSaturated Fat 2gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 5gCholesterol 0mgSodium 66mgCarbohydrates 15gFiber 1gSugar 12gProtein 3g
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.
We love, love, love this recipe! I just made it again last night and am wondering if I cooked it too long or not long enough? The cornstarch peanut butter mixture was very hot but not boiling when I added the chocolate chips. I set the timer for 4 minutes from that point, nevertheless the mixture was not boiling. With about 1 minute left on the timer, it started to bubble, so I gave it another minute. The finished product is shiny, soft and can be squished easily, and not it’s yummy chewiness that it usually is. But it also is crumbly on the edges, once cut. Can you give me some pointers?
These turned out fantastic. Husband and son approved. Very easy to make. Thank you.
I made this for the first time this weekend. Turned out so great. I was unsure if it was going to come out like the candy bar and was totally blown away when it did. Now, if I could only stop eating them. Gonna need bigger pants.
Do you leave the peanuts whole or do you chop them?
Coarsest chop them
I have missed eatmore bars so much. Just a quick question, how thick are the squares. Asking because I have a nougat pan 7 x 11 that marks all the squares off. Would this be too thin due to the increase of pan size or would I still have a good thickness. I don't mind them being thinner but not too thin. LOL I will have to adjust this to make low carb anyways but want to make sure my pan will work.