Snickers Fudge

For a recent cooking club the theme was "song lyrics," wherein we had to find some food stuffs in songs that we could make for the group.* I put J in charge of this one, which meant he spent a few weeks not thinking of anything while I spent those same weeks asking him, "So, did you think of anything yet?" while sending him links to things that might fit the bill. To his credit, he finally landed on the David Byrne song "Nothing But Flowers" that contains the line: I dream of cherry pies, candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies (you got it, you got it). Homemade candy bars it was.

We searched for awhile on the internet, and while looking up Snickers bar recipes I suddenly had a flash of memory that I'd eaten this before. It didn't sound familiar to J at all, but a call home to my my mom confirmed that not only had I eaten it before, but that we had made it one Christmas. I asked if she still had the recipe and while rummaging around she mentioned she thought she'd gotten it from me. Well!

This is exactly what gmail is perfect for. A quick search turned up an email I sent my mom in 2006 with a link to this recipe. Funny how things come full circle.

We doubled the top layer, though I don't think it needed it in the end. Just a caution that natural peanut butters won't work well in this recipe; you need the gross stuff with the hydrogenated oils in it. I suppose I should also warn you that this tends to make people go crazy. They will a) not believe you made it, b) insist it is the best stuff they've ever put in their mouths, and c) curse you while going back for fourths.

*Despite there being much talk of promised cherry pies, none materialized.