Snicker Dates

In my quest for healthier alternatives to my beloved chocolate candy, I stumbled upon a TikTok recipe from @myhealthydish, My Nyugen, for making healthy Snickers. With just four simple ingredients, I had to give it a shot!

You’ll need medjool dates, peanut butter, your choice of nuts, and melted chocolate candy wafers. While the original video used whole nuts stuffed inside the dates, I decided to go with peanuts since that’s what I associate with a Snickers.

While the final product doesn’t taste exactly like a Snickers, it’s a delicious and healthier alternative that I highly recommend as a light snack for your next holiday party! I love to have fun with these and call them “reindeer poop” in my TREAT$ Boxes—“Prancer Poopies” and “Donner Doodies,” haha!

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Recipe

For every 1 medjool date you’ll yield 2 snicker dates. For this recipe I use the 2lb container of Medjool Dates from Sam’s Club.

Ingredients

• 1 2lb container of Medjool Dates
• 1 cup of Peanut Butter
• 1.5 cup of crushed peanuts
• 2 bags of Bake Believe, No Sugar Added, Chocolate-Flavored Melting Wafers, 9 oz*

Instructions

1. Line a baking sheet or some sort of container that can go in your freezer with parchment paper.
2. Cut each Medjool Dates in half and remove the seed.
3. Line the pitted and halved Medjool Dates on the baking sheet/container you lined earlier.
4. Take 1.5 cups of peanuts and crush them in a food processor and set them aside in a bowl.
5. Take a butter knife or small spoon and smear peanut butter on each Medjool Date half.
6. Dip the peanut butter side of each date into the crushed peanuts and back onto the baking sheet/container you lined earlier.
7. Melt the chocolate-flavored melting wafers using the instructions on the package.
8. With a fork or toothpick dip each date in the melted down chocolate and back onto the baking sheet/container. Try to keep each date separate as they will stick together if they are pushed together.
9. Once you’ve dipped all the dates and they’re lined up on the parchment paper. Put it into the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
10. After 30 minutes the snicker dates are ready!
11. You can bag them up in a freezer bag(s) to freeze up to 3 months or you can dig in! Store them in an airtight container/freezer bag in the fridge or freezer.

Notes: Feel free to use any nuts you like, but I personally love peanuts the most. As for the chocolate melting wafers, you can choose any brand, but I prefer Bake Believe since they’re sugar, nut, and dairy-free. If you’re a fan of white chocolate, that works great too!

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