Holy heck! This is one delicious brownie recipe. These Snickers brownies are made from fudgy layers filled with caramel, Snickers candy bars, and melty white chocolate chips. They’re seriously over the top (in the best way possible!).
Does the world really need another brownie recipe? My answer is always yes. Because these gooey, chewy, decadent Snickers brownies make the world a better place. The idea was straightforward enough: I took my fudgy brownies recipe and filled it with white chocolate, Snickers pieces, caramel, and even more chocolate chips. Into the oven they went, and… Holy heck! The results knocked my socks off, to say the least.
Why You’ll Love These Snickers Brownies
- All the Snickers flavors. These homemade brownie bars taste like a Snickers bar wrapped up in a hug of fudgy chocolate and caramel. One bite, and you’ll be over the moon and then back again for more.
- Easy recipe. Apart from chopped Snickers candy bars, you need your usual pantry ingredients. This Snickers brownies recipe uses one bowl (for easy clean-up), and the batter takes minutes to make.
- Adaptable. I can tell you right now: You’ll find so many ways to make this recipe your own! Try out different candy bars, chocolate chips, and add-ins like nuts to adapt these brownies any way you’d like.
What You’ll Need
Most of the ingredients I’ll cover below are likely already in the pantry. These are some quick notes to get you started. Scroll to the printable recipe for the complete ingredients list and amounts.
- Flour – I use regular, all-purpose flour for consistency’s sake.
- Butter – Unsalted and melted in the microwave (I do this in bursts to make sure the butter doesn’t overheat).
- Cocoa Powder – I recommend unsweetened cocoa powder. I use regular cocoa powder here, but since this recipe doesn’t contain leavening like baking soda, you can get away with using Dutch process cocoa if you’d prefer.
- Sugar – You’ll need both granulated sugar and light brown sugar for these brownies.
- Chocolate Chips – This recipe calls for white chocolate chips for the Snickers layer and mini chocolate chips for the top brownie batter layer. You can swap these for any type of chocolate chip you’d like, whether that’s dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or even peanut butter chips.
- Snickers Candy – I chopped up whole Snickers bars to use in this recipe. However, you can also use Snickers Bites if you can get your hands on some (warning: you’ll want to snack on them continuously while baking!).
- Caramel Sauce – Either store-bought caramel sauce or, if you have the time, you can make my easy homemade microwave caramel sauce.
- Vanilla and Milk – Pure vanilla extract has the most natural flavor as opposed to imitation vanilla. You can use any kind of milk you’d like.
- Eggs – Bring these to room temperature if you can.
How to Make Snickers Brownies
These fudgy Snickers brownies are not only extra rich and delicious, but they also happen to be insanely easy to make. Follow the short steps here. You’ll find the printable instructions in the recipe card.
- Mix the brownie batter. In a mixing bowl, whisk together your flour, sugars, salt, and cocoa powder. Next, you’ll melt some butter and mix that in with your eggs and vanilla. Gradually beat in the dry ingredients to make your batter.
- Assemble the brownies. Set a cup of the brownie batter aside for now. Meanwhile, spread the rest of the batter into an 8×8 baking pan lined with foil. Top the batter off with white chocolate chips, then the Snickers pieces, followed by a generous drizzle of caramel.
- Top with batter. Finally, mix the remaining batter with a little milk, stir in your mini chocolate chips, and spread this evenly over the other brownie layers. While the base needs to be a thick batter to hold up to all those fillings, thinning the top layer makes it easier to spread across the filling layer.
- Bake. Bake the brownies in a 350°F oven until the center is just about set. Make sure to let them cool completely before you cut them into squares and serve!
Tips for Success
- Use a boxed brownie mix. If you’re in a hurry, feel free to use boxed brownie mix instead of making the batter from scratch. Your favorite fudgy brownie mix will do the trick! Be sure to pick up any of the other ingredients listed on the box.
- Don’t overmix. Avoid overmixing the brownie batter. Too much mixing overdevelops the gluten, which yields tough, dense brownies.
- Chill the first layers. To make sure you get that visible division of layers in these brownie bars, you can chill the first layers (brownie batter, Snickers, and caramel) in the fridge before spreading on the top brownie layer.
Variation Ideas
- Different candy. Swap out the Snickers in this Holy Heck Brownies recipe for Kit Kats, Twix Bars, Rolos, Reese’s Peanut Butter Bites, or your favorite candy bar.
- Change up the chocolate. Play with the flavors and fill these bars with peanut butter chips, dark chocolate chips, or mint chocolate chips.
- Add nuts. Add chopped nuts into the filling layer for a nice bit of crunch. Use hazelnuts, almonds, peanuts, pecans, walnuts, or macadamias.
- Add marshmallows. Mini marshmallows make extra pockets of sweet, gooey goodness!
- Rocky Road brownies. It’s easy to adapt this Snickers brownies recipe. Make your filling layer from a combination of chopped almonds, marshmallows, and chocolate chunks for an easy rocky road-inspired version.
How to Store
- Refrigerate. Since these brownies contain caramel, I like to store them airtight in the fridge and let them come to room temperature before serving. They’ll keep fresh in the fridge for up to a week!
- Freeze. These Snickers brownies freeze well! I prefer to cut them before freezing; that way, I can take out and thaw only the slices I need. Store the brownies airtight, and if you’re going to freeze your brownies stacked on top of each other, layer wax paper in between. Thaw the brownies at room temperature or in the fridge before serving.
More Homemade Brownie Recipes
Holy Heck Snickers Brownies
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 16 brownies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Holy heck! These Snickers brownies are extra over-the-top, made from fudgy layers filled with caramel, Snickers candy, and melty white chocolate chips.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 3/4 cup flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 2 cups chopped Snickers or 1 bag of Snicker Bites
- 1 cup caramel sauce (or 1 cup of caramels melted with 1–2 tbsp of milk) *see note
- 2 Tbsp milk
- 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line an 8×8 pan with foil or parchment paper, coat with cooking spray and set aside.
- Melt butter in a microwave safe bowl. Set aside to cool slightly.
- In medium bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, salt and both sugars. Set aside.
- In bowl of stand mixer beat together 2 eggs, vanilla and melted butter until combined.
- Turn mixer to low and add in dry ingredients.
- Scoop out 1 cup of the batter and set aside.
- Spread the remaining batter into your prepared pan.
- Top with white chocolate chips, then Snickers and then caramel.
- Place reserved batter back into mixing bowl. Add 2 Tbsp of milk and beat until smooth. Stir in mini chocolate chips. Spread this on top of caramel.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until center is almost set.
- Allow to cool completely before cutting into squares.
Notes
You can use either caramel sauce or melted caramel in the recipe. If you choose to unwrap and melt caramels, you will need to add 1-2 tablespoons of milk to thin the caramel. The caramel sauce will produce a more drippy caramel as seen in the photos. The melted caramel candies will firm up more when the brownies are cooled, while still remaining chewy.
I also used the unwrapped Snickers Bites but if you can’t find those, just chop up Snickers bars.
Hi can I use any other candy other than snickers as my son is allergic to nuts. This looks really good and wanted to make some.
Sure! Milky Way or Twix would work!
Can I please just stuff my face silly with these?! Like, right now…almost 12 in the morning, I don`t even care! 😛
This is my first visit to your blog but I am sure it won’t be my last! All I can say is “You’re Naughty” – but I mean that in the nicest way! 🙂 This is definitely my kind of snack, although I can feel my pants getting tighter already! Thanks for sharing!
I made these this weekend and since I cannot eat gluten i could not taste them, but….the people i made them for loved them. The batter was very very thick and i made some slight subs based on what i had. i only had a little bit of caramel so i used what i had but it was prob only about 1/4 cup. I also subed pb chips instead of white chocolate and used regular sized choc chips in the topping based on what i had on hand. Baked for 30-32 mins. I’m told the brownies were gooey and fudge like and they cut very very well with a pastry cutter which is what i use to cut my brownies. no crumbs or anything. i worried i might have slightly underbaked them (they were awful fudgy compared to the pics here) but everyone says they were good. the recipe was simple and i think could be a great base for a ton of add ins. they came together quite quickly and i just used a whisk and bowl since i don’t want to gluten my kitchen aid. overall great recipe. thank you !!!!!