Twix Bars

So I have never had a Twix bar because it says right there smack dab on the label "may contain peanuts".  Ughhh.....  like always. And I've never actully tried a homade Twix bar until my aunt made them for the holidays. Once I took a bite out of that baby I felt  a smack of holiday joy!  I loved it!  A week later I decided to make my own Twix bars with DARK Hershey's choclate instead of milk chocolate. Once I was done making those babies, I ate one. Once the that bar touched my taste buds,  I thought I was in heaven! But of course I wasn't. My parents said that they tasted close to a real Twix bar, but I'll never know for myself.  Well at least not now. Maybe I'll keep a bar that I made until my peanut allergy gets better, but that would just be gross so, NO.  If you have a peanut allergy I think you should run out and make those Twix bars, they're so good!

We got our recipe here at Frank's recipes:

Recipe:

http://franksrecipes.net/modules/publisher/item.php?itemid=6183

35 unwrapped Kraft caramels
1/4 cup water
1 box Nabisco Lorna Doone shortbread cookie, (40)
2 bags milk-chocolate chips, (12 ounce)

Makes 40 bars

Here are my ingredients:

Directions:


First we unwrapped the caramels (of course I had to sneak one!) and then placed them in a small pot with the water.  We then heated over low heat until it was a gooey consistency.

Then we lined up the Lorna Doone cookies side by side on an ungreased cookie sheet. The cookie sheet we used was way to big so we tried a small pan.  The smaller pan was too small so we went back to the original pan.

Ok back to check the caramels.

Once the caramel is melted, spoon it onto the tops of the cookies.  We then separated ours because we weren't sure if they were going to stick together.

Now we put our cookie sheet in the fridge for 30 minutes.  5 minutes before the cookies were ready to go, we started melting the chocolate chips.  We decided to melt the chocolate in our microwave.  We put the chips in a microwave safe bowl and started with 1 minute.  We stirred the chocolate but still needed a little more time so we heated for 20 more seconds.

Here's where things got a little sticky!!!  We tried to dip in the chocolate and tap the fork to get rid of excess but was getting messy.  Instead we got out a little spatula and spread it over the tops of the cookies and around the edges.  Then we put the cookies parchment paper on the tray.  Well we needed two trays. :-)

So the directions say to leave at room temperature for a few hours or put in fridge for 30 minutes to help set the chocolate.  We put ours in the fridge because we wanted them to be ready faster!!!  But the chocolate wasn't really set all the way after a half hour.  But it tasted soooo good that my tastebuds exploded!!!  After a couple more hours of sitting out it did set and they were perfect!