Vegan Snickers Squares (made with oats!)

These Vegan Snickers Squares are naturally sweetened and made with real food! These taste like the original (or even better) and contain no added sugar or dairy! They are healthy and nothing better than making in at home without any weird ingredients. The outside caramel and chocolate have a crispy texture and the middle is creamy and peanut buttery.

These healthy Snickers Squares are the perfect treat. Impossibly easy and very yummy, they’ve got NO butter, NO refined sugar and NO corn syrup!

My healthy Vegan Snickers Squares are made with dates, peanuts, chocolate, oat flour, coconut oil and other clean ingredients. If you are looking for a healthier date-sweetened no bake dessert with fewer ingredients these are the solution!

There are, of course, other chocolate recipes out there, but I recently found myself making Snickers squares again…and again! And I knew that they would be addicting and delicious!

These Snickers Squares are a healthy combination of salty, sweet, crunchy, and chocolatey, but instead of consisting of butter, sugar, and oil they are full of protein, fiber, and healthy fats.

Ingredients to make Vegan Snickers Squares:

The list:

• Oat flour – You can make your own oat flour by blending rolled oats or quick oats. If gluten-free, just make sure to pick a certfied gluten-free brand!
• Almond flour – Almond meal works as well! Combining the almond flour with oat flour make a crumbly consistency, perfect to make the base of our Snickers Squares.
• Salt – Adding salt to chocolate recipes is key! It enhances the flavor.
• Coconut oil – I used unrefined coconut oil. But feel free to use any kind of oil!
• Liquid sweetener of choice – To keep it Vegan, use maple, date or agave syrup. If not, then use honey.
• Dates – They are key! As we will be using them as part of our Snickers Squares “nougat“
• Peanut butter – I used a natural peanut butter! Make sure when picking any PB jar, to check the ingredients that contain only PEANUTS and no other added oils. In that way, we will this recipe as healthier as possible!
• Vanilla extract – Great for the essence
• Chocolate – Feel free to use any, from a 70% chocolate to sugar-free chocolate chips. As we will be melting it and covering our Snickers Squares.

How to make Vegan Snickers Squares?

The Instructions

• Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper. Just make space in your freezer for the pan. Because you will be putting it in the freezer and pulling it back out several times (see notes).
• Nougat (base) – Gather and measure all ingredients by starting to mix the oat flour, almond flour, coconut oil and liquid sweetener of choice until well combined. Consequently, firmly and evenly press the Nougat into the 9×13 pan and leave in the freezer for 30 minutes.

• Caramel– Now, remove the pits from the Dates and soak them in hot boiled water for 10 minutes. You can also add the Dates in a bowl and microwave for 2 minutes, to save time.

• The Dates should get moist so drain any excess liquid off of the Dates and add them to a food processor or high speed blender with rest of the caramel’s ingredients like the peanut butter, vanilla extract, salt and 1/4 cup of the remaining Date water. Process until thick and smooth.

• Use a spatula to spread the Date caramel evenly over the Nougat, then sprinkle some peanuts over the caramel and press them with your fingers into the caramel layer, so they stick. Place in the feezer, until firm.

• Remove the frozen “filling” from the 9×13 pan and with a sharp knife cut it into square-sized pieces.
• Return these to the freezer while you melt your chocolate.
• Chocolate – Microwave your chocolate of choice with intervals of 25-30 seconds (no more that that, chocolate might burn), stirring in between. Stop microwaving once you notice is 75% melted, and stir the mixture with a spatula until completely melted.

• Acting quickly, place 1 candy square into the bowl of melted Chocolate. Use two forks to “flip” the bar, until it is coated in chocolate on all sides. Then, place it onto a plate lined with parchment paper and repeat with the same process with the remaining squares.

• Lastly, place the bars in the fridge for another 5-10 minutes, to allow the chocolate to harden. After that, serve and enjoy!

Saving for later?

You can store it in the fridge for up to 10 days. Or keep it in the freezer for up to a month. Just make sure to let it thaw a little bit before eating.

Ingredients substitutes and notes

• No oat flour? Use rolled oats and add all the ingredients into a blender.
• Liquid sweetener of choice? To keep it Vegan, use maple, date or agave syrup. If not, then use honey.
• No coconut oil? Use any kind of oil.
• I used a 9×13 pan, but you can even use a square or rectangular tupperware, just make sure to line it with parchment paper so they will be easy to remove once frozen.