Make Homemade Kit Kat Bars

If you like the Kit Kat bars that you get from the store, you’ll really love these!

  • Yields: About 36-48 Kit-Kat bars.

Ingredients

  • 60 buttery crackers (or use some wafers if you want)
  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly-packed
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1 1/2 cup graham crackers, crushed
  • 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter

Steps

  1. Mix the butter, sugar and milk together in the saucepan. Bring to the boil.
  2. Add the crushed graham crackers to the saucepan. Mix to combine.
  3. Continue to boil for an additional 5 minutes. Keep an eye on the mixture to prevent boiling over or burning. Then remove from the heat.
  4. Take out some of the buttery crackers. Arrange them across the base of the baking pan. Pour about half of the boiled mixture over these crackers.
    • The baking pan should be non-stick and it is even better if it's lined with parchment paper.
  5. Add a few more (about 20) butter crackers on top of the first layer, and press down lightly.
  6. Pour the remainder of the mixture over these crackers.
  7. Melt the chocolate chips and peanut butter into another dish.
  8. Microwave this mixture on high for 30 seconds (or until the chips are mostly melted).
  9. Pour this second mixture over the butter cracker mixture, until the crackers and boiled mixture are completely covered.
  10. Let the Kit-Kat bars cool. Then refrigerate them until they are firm. Cut or snap into finger length slices as needed.
  11. Finish making the homemade Kit-Kat bar.



Tips

  • If giving as a gift, wrap in foil, then add a paper wrapper around it, in the old-fashioned wrapping style once used for commercial Kit Kat bars. It's effective and pretty.

Things You'll Need

  • Heavy based saucepan
  • Wooden spoon for stirring
  • Baking pan

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