This month’s Daring Bakers’ Challenge was to make nougat, which isn’t something that I’d ever even thought about making before. I’ve never eaten nougat outside of a candy bar. And I figured this was no time to start, so I decided to make a peanut nougat to go inside a homemade Snickers bar.

I spliced my recipe together from a couple of sources. I used the Bon Appetit ‘Snickers’ bar recipe for the base and the nougat, and I followed the How Sweet It Is homemade Snickers recipe for the caramel layer. I ended up just melting a lot of chocolate chips and, after I got tired of dipping the individual bars, pouring them over the top of the nougat and caramel layers. It wasn’t very pretty, but it tasted marvelous.

The homemade Snickers bars took far more effort than the homemade Butterfingers, but I think they tasted better, too. And I should know, because I ate a ton of them.

The March 2014 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Rebecca of BakeNQuilt. She challenged us to learn to make classic nougat and to make it our own with our choice of flavors and add-ins.