Snickers muffins! With an ice cream-like swirl of buttercream frosting 🙂
It all started when I realised I still had a packet of 4 Snickers bars in the cupboard which my Mum gave me a long time ago. I Googled “Snickers muffins” to see if I could find a recipe and couldn’t. But I did find a recipe for Mars Bar muffins so I just adapted that!
Ingredients
- 4 Snickers bars (you could get away with using 3, but I like lots of chocolate!)
- 100 g / 3.5 oz caster sugar
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100 ml / 3.4 fl oz vegetable oil
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2 eggs
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100 g/ 3.5 oz self-raising flour
Method
Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees C / Gas Mark 4 / 350 degrees F. Put your muffin cases into your tin. This mix made 9 decent-sized muffins. If you’re using bun cases, you should easily get 12 cakes.
Chop 2 of your Snickers bars into small pieces like this:
Beat the oil and sugar together until the mixture is creamy and smooth. This should take a few minutes. Add the eggs, flour and finely chopped Snickers bars and stir to combine all the ingredients.
Spoon this mixture into your muffin cases.
Chop the remaining 2 Snickers bars into larger slices. Like this:
Pop these larger slices of Snickers into the top of each of your muffins, pushing them into the mixture until just the top is sticking out (see picture below). If you have spare slices you might like to use them for decoration later.
Bake the muffins for about 25 minutes. To check they are cooked, insert a sharp knife into the centre of one of the muffins. If the knife comes out clean then they’re done. Leave to cool in the tin for a while and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
You’ll notice the pieces of Snickers at the top of your muffins erupt!
This molten Snickers is lovely chewy stuff. You can either leave your muffins bare so people can appreciate the chocolately goodness, like this:
Or you can decorate them. I decided to decorate using two-colour buttercream icing. This is simply butter mixed with icing sugar and beaten until you have a smooth paste. I always use double the icing sugar to butter.
Once I had a batch of buttercream, I added melted chocolate to half of it to make it brown. You can also use cocoa powder, like in my chocolate fudge cake recipe post. Then I spooned the two colours of buttercream icing into my piping bag which I fitted with a small, star-shaped tip:
I then piped a swirl of buttercream on top of each of the muffins and added a slice of Snickers to finish. I was going for an ice-cream cone with flake effect.
If you’re looking for other muffin recipes, you could try:
My peanut butter and banana muffins.
They look soooo good! 😍
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They were very tasty. And perhaps more importantly, the smell when I opened the oven door was just wonderful 🙂
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Shushhhhhh, that’s not fair, you can’t reply with comments like that!!! How am I supposed to cope? 😋😜
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Oh my! Those look delicious! And I love Snickers! It’s my favorite candy bar. 🙂
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They were very nice indeed. And the smell was just heavenly! 🙂
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Your baking always looks so good. I don’t think Snickers would stay in my cupboard that long! Next time I decide to bake I think I will be taking a look back at your site.
Amanda.
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Thank you 🙂
Funny you should say that: when I told my Mum I was making Snickers muffins to use up the Snickers in the cupboard, she said, “Why don’t you just eat them?” haha!
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OMG these look so delicious! I really have to buy myself a muffin mold ASAP. I’m definitely going to try these, although they don’t sell Snickers down here… 😦 I’m thinking maybe kitkat muffins with extra peanuts?!
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I think any chocolate bar would work. Or even Mars bars (if they sell those with peanuts) would work 🙂
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Boy do I miss Mars bars! Those and Milkyway… Such a shame they don’t sell them here in Argentina. (Although they finally started selling Kitkat last year, so I’m keeping my hopes up) 😉
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I can’t believe you don’t have them in Argentina! They’re missing out on a massive opportunity there. As you say, if KitKats have just turned up then I’m sure Mars won’t be far behind once they see all the money Nestle is making!
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I’m keeping my fingers crossed because I used to love them when I was younger! Here in Argentina they tend to not really care about foreign products and they do have delicious alfajores to replace them, but still…
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oh oh oh delish x
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They were delicious. Not a bad way to “use up” some chocolate bars that otherwise would have sat in the cupboard until they went out of date 🙂
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ooooh yum! these look so good and i love the two tone frosting. thank you for mentioning my recipe x
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No, thank you! I searched everywhere for a Snickers muffin recipe without any luck and when I found yours it was a life-saver. I’m just glad it worked with Snickers too 🙂
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Wow looks so good! I will definitely follow. I would really appreciate it if you would check my blog out too- https://thebakingblogsite.wordpress.com
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Thank you! I’ll check out your blog now 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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I love Snickers! These look like just the thing to munch on after a long week. 🙂
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They were a great solution to the “oh so terrible problem” of having Snickers bars hanging around (my life is so hard!). I’m still trying to work out what to make this week. I might have to go with something completely different and try to make bread 🙂
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Ha ha, I love it! Yes, life is indeed tough when you have a surplus of candy. 😉 Wow, bread baking sounds very intriguing! Looking forward to seeing what you bake up!
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Those look absolutely SCRUMPTIOUS! & they’re so pretty!
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I have to say, I do worry about whether things look pretty. That said, I did sneakily eat one of the ones without icing when it was fresh from the oven and still warm and it was lovely 🙂
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The decorations look so beautiful! 🙂
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Thank you! I have yet to perfect that two tone buttercream. But then I’ve only done it twice and it’s all about practice. Well, I guess there’s nothing for it, I’m just going to have to make more cakes. *sigh* My life is so hard 😉
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oooh they look so yummy!!!!! Thanks for the recipe! 😀
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They were lovely and you’re very welcome 🙂
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