Healthy Dessert Dupes: Nutritious Vegan Snickers Bars (30-minute recipe)
Everyone loves sweet desserts like Kit Kats, Twix bars, and of course the delicious peanut-coated Snickers! Well, if you often find yourself craving this specific chocolate delight, then you are in luck! In this article, we will show you how to make delicious and super healthy vegan snickers bars. This dessert dupe recipe calls for some basic ingredients you already probably have at home and half an hour of free time! You will need some oats, dates, peanuts, and optionally some edible dried rose petals. The pink petals are what turn this homemade snack into a truly delightful gourmet experience. All this makes the for the most delicious homemade snickers bars ever! So, without further ado, let’s see how these healthy vegan snickers bars!
These are without a doubt the best vegan snickers bars in the whole world!
Video Recipe
These healthy vegan snickers bars are the perfect meal prep for the week. Just make one or two batches on the weekend, and keep them in the fridge. You will have the easiest nutritious breakfast bars, and you can easily enjoy them on the go. What’s more, if you are someone who has sweet cravings late at night, these nutritious bars are perfect for that, too! They are sweet enough to satisfy any sweet tooth, but also full of good ingredients. In addition to all that, these healthy snickers bars are a true lifesaver if you have kids. They make for the perfect snack for both at school and at home! So, now that you are convinced just how amazing these healthy snickers bars are, it is time to see how easy it is to make them, as well!
Here is the whole process of making these snickers bars from start to finish
Recipe for Healthy Vegan Snickers Bars
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Assembling time: 10 minutes
Cooling time: 15 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
You only need 30 minutes to make this delicious no-bake snickers dessert
Things you will need:
- a high-speed blender
- a silicone spatula
- a spoon
- a square baking tray
- baking paper
- a sharp knife
- a plate
- a ladle
- a cooling rack for baked goods
Ingredients:
- organic pitted dates – 400g
- vanilla extract – 1tbsp
- a pinch of salt
- peanut paste – 4tbsp
- date caramel – 150g
- fine oats – 150g
- roasted peanuts (for topping)
- melted chocolate of choice (for topping)
- edible rose petals (for decoration)
Step-by-step Instructions:
- First, prepare all the ingredients in the necessary quantities. This will make the whole process easier.
- Then add the pitted dates to the food processor. Next, add the vanilla extract and a pinch of salt.
- Then add the peanut paste to the blender using a silicone spatula.
- Pulse until the mixture becomes smooth and lump-free.
- Then remove the top lid of the blender and check if the ingredients have blended well.
- After that, scoop half of the mixture using a spoon. Place it in a bowl, along with the date caramel. Save the other half for later.
- Then pour in the oats. Use your hands or a spoon to mix the ingredients together to form the base of the dessert.
- Line a square baking tray with baking paper, and add the mixture to it, flatting it out using a spoon.
- Now that you formed the perfect base using the baking tray, remove the baking paper and the dessert, for now.
- Use the rest of the caramel/date sauce that you made earlier, and spread it in a thick layer on the base.
- Then sprinkle with roasted peanuts. Use your hands to push in the peanuts into the caramel/date layer.
- Take a sharp knife and cut the dessert into bars. You can leave he snickers bars to chill in the fridge for 15 minutes before cutting them, so it is easier.
- After that, place the bars on a cooling rack, and pour the melted chocolate on each bar using a ladle.
- Finally, add the edible rose petals on top for that extra beautiful decoration. Voilà!
Enjoy!
Have you seen a more scrumptious healthy dessert dupe before?
Visual Steps
1 Step: First, prepare all the ingredients in the necessary quantities. Then add the pitted dates to the food processor.
2 Step: Next, add the vanilla extract and a pinch of salt.
3 Step: Then add the peanut paste to the blender using a silicone spatula.
4 Step: Pulse until the mixture becomes smooth and lump-free.
You want to achieve the consistency of smooth peanut butter
5 Step: Then remove the top lid of the blender and check if the ingredients have blended well.
6 Step: After that, scoop half of the mixture using a spoon.
7 Step: Place it in a bowl, along with the date caramel.
8 Step: Then pour in the oats, as well.
9 Step: Use your hands or a spoon to mix the ingredients together to form the base of the dessert.
You want to achieve a firm, sticky, and easily moldable consistency.
10 Step: Line a square baking tray with baking paper, and add the mixture to it, flatting it out using a spoon.
11 Step: Now that you formed the perfect base using the baking tray, remove the baking paper and the dessert, for now.
12 Step: Use the rest of the caramel/date sauce that you made earlier, and spread it in a thick layer on the base.
13 Step: Then sprinkle with roasted peanuts.
14 Step: Use your hands to push in the peanuts into the caramel/date layer.
15 Step: Take a sharp knife and cut the dessert into bars.
You can leave he snickers bars to chill in the fridge for 15 minutes before cutting them, so it is easier
16 Step: After that, place the bars on a cooling rack.
17 Step: Then pour the melted chocolate of your choice on each bar using a ladle.
You can cover the snickers bars completely in chocolate, or just the top, like we did
18 Step: Finally, add the edible rose petals on top for that extra beautiful decoration.
Voilà! You have the perfect healthy dessert dupe in front of you!
Store these healthy bars in the fridge, and enjoy it for breakfast, or as a late night snack
That was the end of our delicious journey! Make sure to check out the rest of our yummy recipes on our cooking and baking YouTube channel! There you will find so many unique and tasty recipes to try out like this Super Soft & Chocolatey Gluten-Free Air-Fryer Brownie (30-minute dessert recipe) and these Gluten-Free Blueberry Baked Oatmeal Bars (30-minute breakfast recipe). You can find everything from healthy dessert dupes to well-known classic dishes with a twist. Make sure to let us know what you think of this recipe in the comments below the video. And, while you are there, tell us what else you would like to see us make next! Now enjoy these yummy healthy snickers bars!
Once you bite into these healthy vegan snickers bars, you will know they are worth the effort!
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