Eat-More Bar Squares. An easy candy confection!
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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?
If no bake cookies are your thing, then you'll definitely want to check out this collection of freezer friendly No-Bake Cookie Treats.
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.
Are these squares as chewy as the Eat More bar?
Yes indeed!
Hi! It looks yummmmyyy! I just wanted to know how many calories does this have? Thanks!
If you have to ask...
I made these bars and they taste just like the candy bars from the store. I was wondering if they freeze well because if I do not then I will eat them all. Thank you for all your wonderful recipes Barry, I have made many of them with great success This is my go to site.
Hi Jan!
I just made these and was wondering the same thing. Did you freeze them?
Thanks,
G
It really isn't necessary to freeze them but you certainly can if you like.
Do you use dark or clear corn syrup? Not sure if it makes a difference but for some recipes it does.
Either is fine for this recipe
Yummm!!! Thank you! My new favorite Christmas candy!! I had forgotten about these!!
Why grease AND line the pan?
The grease helps the paper from sliding all over the place as you spread the candy into the pan.
When lining pan with parchment, I use spring clips, fastening paper to pan at edges. The kind that are office supplies. Not damaged by oven heat. Love that I can make the paper stay in place. Got that idea from watching Martha Stewart. Never seen or heard of it elsewhere.
What do you think about using a microwave rather than stove top? Would they come out the same? Also in the 4 minutes after I put the chocolate chips in my mixture didn't boil. Does that change things?
Risky. Sugar burns easily in the microwave.
Was just introduced to this site and cannot wait to try the fish cakes. And some other recipes
Can you use honey in place of corn syrup?
Never tried that but it could work.
Can you make these with honey instead of corn syrup
Never tried that before. Possibly, yes.
Was missing Eat More bars living here in Bangkok so you have saved me!
Made two of rock recipes and they both turned out great the ear-more bars are like the real thing and also gluten free the at her bars were the date squares 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I have made these for sometime now but my recipe calls for 1 cup of oatmeal, less pb and more chips no extract. Both these recipes are very good. Taste like the real thing.
made the Eatmore bars so simple and easy to make but oh soooooo good
can I put these in paper muffin liners or will the paper stick to them
I see that as a very sticky situation.