Healthy Vegan Snickers Bars (gluten-free, refined sugar-free)

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WOW! Here’s another amazing recipe for you my dear friends. Say hello to your newest favourite treat : The Healthy Vegan Snickers Bars! These Homemade Snickers Bars are also naturally gluten-free and refined sugar-free. Yasss!! Imagine a scrumptious combination of a crispy cookie base with caramel, peanuts and chocolate all coming together with pure ingredients and naturally vegan, gluten-free AND refined-sugar-free! Hello – your world just got tastier! :)

This is such a fun recipe to make and eat!

It comes together is less than 30 minutes from start to finish and it assembles really easily. 

There’s 2 components to it that you actually need to make : the cookie base and the caramel filling. The peanuts in the centre and melted chocolate come together practically on its own.

It was really fun to incorporate my kiddo with her friend to help with these. Kids are awesome at helping out with food especially dessert. If you have them around, free child labour is ok sometimes ;) (wink!)

Find some kids and get them to de-shell some peanuts to get started. (or buy de-shelled peanuts obviously)
In the meantime, make the oat cookie base.
While that’s in the oven, make the caramel.
Then when that’s chilling, melt the chocolate.
Then put it together and enjoy within minutes.

 

Healthy Vegan Snickers Bars

(gluten-free, refined sugar-free)

Ingredients for the cookie base:

1/4 cup vegan butter, softened to room temperature

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 tbsp ground flaxseed with 4 tablespoons water

1/2 cup almond flour

1/2 cup oat flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

Additional Ingredients:

1/2 cup Medjool dates

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup peanuts, broken into chunks

1/2 cup dark chocolate, melted

Directions:

In a small bowl, mix the flaxseeds with the water and let stand for 5 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350F and line a 6×9″ pan with parchment paper long enough to smooth on top.

In a food processor, mix the butter, brown sugar, flaxseed mixture, almond flour, oat flour and baking soda. Scoop into a 6×9″ baking pan and smooth with the parchment paper to flatten the cookie layer. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden. Let cool slightly.

In the food processor again mix the dates with the peanut butter. Pour out onto the cookie layer. Sprinkle with peanut chunks and top with melted chocolate. Sprinkle again with extra peanuts on top.

 

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If you’re a fan of copycat recipes, these are amazing and made healthier and are naturally vegan and gluten-free and refined sugar free of course!

These are probably the next best thing since my Homemade Peanut Butter Cups recipe which is super popular on Pure Ella already! Those are also a must-try!!

Cut the Sugar Tip:

As a sugar expert I have to say that these do contain sugar BUT these are refined sugar free and do make a healthier alternative to actual Snickers which contain corn syrup and refined sugar as well as palm oil, and artificial flavours etc. (See all the ingredients below.)

To cut the sugar in this dessert, this is what I’ve done:

• Used refined sugar ingredients such as dates, coconut nectar and maple syrup
• Added protein by adding peanuts and peanut butter (obviously necessary to make Snickers) but it’s also great to add in protein to desserts as you get satisfied with less because protein is very filling.
• I added healthy fats from the coconut oil as well as in the peanuts and peanut butter which help to slow down the absorption of sugar in the blood.
• I added fibre with the addition of flax meal as the peanuts and oats as well. Fibre also helps to slow down the absorption of sugar in the blood.
• As a side note, these do still contain sugar so it’s good to keep portions in mind. I would have one bar with a cup of an unsweetened coffee and have that one dessert in a day. (I’m naturally good with portion controlling and I recommend you are too :))

 

These are the actual ingredients of Snickers bars : I personally do not like these ingredients at all except for the peanuts. 

Snickers Bars Ingredients : milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk, lactose, milkfat, soy lecithin, artificial flavor), peanuts, corn syrup,sugar, palm oil, skim milk, lactose, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, egg whites, artificial flavor.

No further comment. Just make these Healthy Vegan Snickers Bars instead, ok. ;)

 

Ella Leché is a cookbook author (‘Cut the Sugar‘), recipe developer, and photographer/stylist behind Pure Ella; where she shares delicious and healthy recipes. Eating PURE is clean ingredients, whole foods, plant-based nourishment and delicious desserts – with quality ingredients and sweeteners so they’re treats with benefits so you won’t have to feel deprived or restricted to eat healthier.
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