Make This! Homemade Halloween Candy Bar

It's that time of year again when you find yourself with way too much Halloween candy around the house. I'm not sure how this manages to happen before Halloween, but between bags of candy around the office and candy sales at the grocery store, I find myself snacking on the stuff all hours of the day. One (slightly dangerous) solution: combine the candy to make a super bar!

I found this recipe in the October issue of Bon Appetit and I loved how easy it was to put together. Start with a variety of candy -- in this case, Butterfinger and Heath bars, peanut butter cups, Reese's Pieces, peanut M&M's and honey roasted peanuts, for good measure -- and simply chop them and press into a cookie sheet spread with melted bittersweet chocolate. Top with a drizzle of white chocolate, chill, break into pieces, and it's done!

Although this recipe calls for peanut and peanut butter flavors, the idea would work great with many other candy combinations -- peppermint patties, red and green M&M's, and starlight mints for a winter theme or mini marshmallows, graham cracker crumbles, and M&M's for a s'mores treat.

What do you do with leftover Halloween candy?

• Make It! Halloween Peanut Butter and Toffee Candy Bar at Epicurious

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Comments (6)

This looks great! How long do you chill it for? Would it be better to line the cookie sheet with parchment paper? Can't wait to try this. We have a giant box of Halloween candy and we don't get trick or treaters where we live. :)

It just needs to chill for about 30 minutes since the chocolate is only warm and spreadable, not really hot, to begin with. I bet parchment paper would work, but the foil was perfect -- it peeled off in one big piece very easily. Try it and let me know how it turns out!

Cookie Pizza!!!

Make a GIANT cookie, and right when you take it out of the oven, top it with all of the chopped candy goodness your Halloween adventures have brought you. The heat from the freshly baked cookie is enough to melt the candy and make it stick. Some candy may require a bit of melted chocolate as glue.

So fun and delicious!

Only Rachel Ray would call this "homemade."

Just looking at this makes me ill. Not having a sweet tooth is a blessing.

Could I make a plea here for a few more healthy recipes? It seems to me that almost every recipe on the site these days is some sort of baked sweet, pastry, or butter-and-bacon extravaganza. Please, I'm 46 years old, with high blood pressure, and trying to watch my weight; my honey had a stroke two years ago and is trying to avoid a repeat. How about some flavorful recipes that aren't full of saturated fat or sugar?