What do they usually take with them to school and eat during breaks? What do you have a snack on the way to university or to work? What do you buy when you are in the store if you feel hungry, and far from home? These bars are always in sight in supermarkets. Remember yourself: every time you stand in line at the checkout, it is they who come into your field of vision. The variety of chocolates of the company Mars LLC is simply surprising. "Snickers", "Mars", "Bounty", as well as bars "Picnic", "Nuts", "Kit-Kat" ... Let’s talk more about Snickers sweets today.
About Snickers
Snickers is one of the most popular chocolates both in America and in Russia. This product has been manufactured by Mars, Incorporated since 1930. Every second person must have tried this delicacy at least once in a lifetime. Many appreciate it for being very nutritious. Even a fairly high calorie content cannot scare consumers away. Others love Snickers sweets for their unique composition and filling. Let's study them.
Manufacturer
What other bars, besides Snickers, are produced by Mars, Incorporated?
- "Mars";
- "Milky Way";
- "Twix;
- The Bounty.
The following chocolates and chocolate products are also produced:
- M & M'S;
- Dove;
- Maltesers (Russian "Malteseers").
Moreover, Mars LLC specializes not only in the production of chocolates. The company owns the following products:
- Pedigree (Russian "Pedigree");
- Whiskas (Russian "Whiskas");
- Kitekat (Russian "Kitiket");
- Sheba (Russian "Sheba");
- Chappi (Rus. "Chappi");
- Perfect Fit (Russian "Perfect Fit");
- Juicy Fruit (Rus. "Jusi Fruit");
- Skittles (Rus. "Skills");
- Wrigley Spearmint (Rus. "Wrigley Spermint").
Now you know what Mars, Incorporated is releasing.
Candy composition
What is included in Snickers sweets?
- Filling: sugar, peanuts, glucose syrup, vegetable oil, milk powder, Hazelnut flavor identical to natural, dry egg white, flour.
- Bar: milk chocolate, cocoa butter, sugar, whole milk powder, lactose, cocoa, emulsifiers, milk fat, Vanillin flavor identical to natural, skimmed milk powder.
Stuffing "Snickers"
Each chocolate bar of the Mars LLC company (like Bounty, Mars, Twix, Kit-Kata) has its own form, packaging and filling. Snickers is unique in its kind:
- Nougat-based filling.
- Roasted Peanuts / Seeds / Almonds / Hazelnuts.
- Caramel.
- Milk chocolate.
This is how the Snickers chocolate bar has been produced for almost a century.
Calorie "Snickers"
Do not forget that the use of chocolate in large quantities threatens to increase weight and the occurrence of diabetes. Also, sweet adversely affects the cardiovascular system. Moreover, the product contains a lot of sugar and fat that harm your body.
Consider the calorie content and nutritional value of Snickers sweets per 100 grams:
- 503 kcal;
- 9 g of protein;
- 27 g of fat;
- 56 g of carbohydrates.
Sweets will lighten your mood, fill you with energy and replenish your strength. An ideal snack is after psychological and physical exertion. It is also a great little present for children, a second half or a friend.
Chocolate candies
Snickers is not only a bar. Now on the shelves of the store you can find chocolates of the same brand. They are called Snickers Minis. Usually sold in packaging weighing 180 grams. This is a mini format of a famous chocolate bar. In one mini-snickers - 15 grams. Calorie sweets "Snickers" - 75 kilocalories. A great option for tea drinking, because the package contains twelve mini-sneakers.
Original tastes
In Russia, you can find the usual Snickers with peanuts, as well as a hazelnut bar. In 2014, the company Mars LLC released a limited series: Snickers with seeds in a yellow package.
But did you know that in Europe and America you can find Snickers in other flavor variations? Let's consider some:
- Chocolate caramel, chocolate nougat, milk chocolate and peanuts.
- Square Snickers with Peanut Butter.
- "Snickers" with the addition of peanut butter (instead of caramel).
- Bar with almonds (instead of peanuts).
- Chocolate bar with coconut flavor.
- Almonds, caramel, nougat with the flavor of pastille, dark chocolate.
- Milk chocolate, peanuts, peanut butter.
- Popped rice, peanuts, caramel, milk chocolate.
- Snickers with dark chocolate.
In 2018, a new limited bar coated with white chocolate appeared in Russia. Also in white glaze, Mars, Incorporated has released chocolates. Hurry up to try while Snickers in white chocolate is still on sale!
Recipes
Snickers is already a proper name. For example, now there are a million recipes of the cake of the same name. Moreover, you can see Snickers ice cream in stores . If you like sweets, today we suggest you consider interesting Snickers cake and ice cream recipes.
Cake
How about making an amazingly delicious Snickers dessert? You can put it at the head of the holiday table or make it for evening tea. A step-by-step recipe is quite simple, even an inexperienced or novice hostess can cope with it. Please your household sweet.
What we need for a biscuit:
- seven chicken eggs;
- two glasses of flour;
- 3/4 cup sugar;
- a glass of rast. oils;
- 3/4 cup of water;
- three teaspoons of baking powder;
- a teaspoon of salt;
- Art. a spoon of cocoa.
What is needed for nougat:
- three hundred grams of sugar;
- five tbsp. tablespoons of honey;
- two egg whites;
- fifty ml of water;
- a teaspoon of lemon juice;
- a bag of vanilla sugar;
- three hundred grams of roasted peanuts.
What is needed for the cream:
- fifty grams of butter;
- Art. a spoonful of powdered sugar;
- can of boiled condensed milk;
- one hundred and fifty grams of roasted peanuts.
Glaze Ingredients:
- fifty grams of butter;
- two tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa;
- three tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
- three tbsp. spoons of sour cream;
- fifty grams of peanuts.
Step-by-step method of preparation:
- Cooking a biscuit: in a bowl, whisk the whites with lemon juice.
- In a separate container, beat the yolks, warm water, half the amount of sugar and vegetable oil. Add a third of whipped proteins.
- Mix the second half of sugar, cocoa, salt, flour and baking powder. Add to the container.
- Enter the remaining two-thirds of the whipped protein. Mix thoroughly.
- Bake a biscuit for forty minutes at 180 gr.
- We cut the finished biscuit into four parts.
- Cook the nougat: heat the nuts in the microwave (for three minutes). Peel off the husk.
- Mix water with sugar and honey, put on the stove. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook for another ten minutes. The temperature of the syrup should be 140 degrees.
- Beat whites, add lemon juice and vanilla sugar.
- Pour syrup into the squirrels, continuing to beat them for about fifteen minutes.
- Add nuts to the blender, mix with a spoon. You can also chop them.
- Put parchment in the mold, grease with butter. We spread the nougat and send it to the freezer for six hours.
- Making a cream: beat butter with icing sugar until the color changes (the mass should become lighter). Now you need to periodically add boiled condensed milk in a tablespoon, while continuing to beat.
- Add the peeled roasted peanuts to the cream. Mix with a spoon.
- We collect the cake: on the first cake spread a cream with peanuts. We spread the second cake, and on it - nut nougat. Grease the third cake with a cream with peanuts. Cover with the fourth (last) cake.
- Cooking the icing: melt the butter, pour sugar and cocoa. Then add peanuts and sour cream. Mix.
- Cover the top of the cake with nuts. Put the cake in the refrigerator for forty minutes.
Serve chilled with tea, coffee, milk or juice. Invite your family, friends, neighbors to a tea party, because only together you can enjoy the amazing taste of Snickers cake. A great occasion to talk heart to heart and see relatives.
Ice cream "Snickers"
You probably noticed that Snickers ice cream at a store is not cheap. Not everyone can buy this small bucket for 300 rubles. Therefore, we suggest you make your dessert at home.
What is needed:
- one hundred ml cream + two hundred gr. boiled condensed milk;
- three hundred ml cream (fat content 30%);
- eighty grams of chocolate;
- one hundred grams of peanuts;
- one hundred grams of toffee caramel sauce.
Cooking method:
- Put boiled condensed milk in a bowl. Add one hundred ml cream. Stir until smooth.
- In a separate container, beat three hundred ml of cream until foam at low speed. After the appearance of foam, we begin to whisk at high speed. Now add the contents of the first bowl. We continue to whip the cream with condensed milk.
- Pour the mass that we have turned into any form or plastic container. Cover with cling film and put in the freezer.
- Melt the milk chocolate in a water bath. Add peanuts and mix. The mixture is cooled in the refrigerator.
- Two hours later we get the mass with nuts. Separate sticky nuts.
- Remove the ice cream form and mix with chocolate peanuts.
- Now generously pour the top of the ice cream with Toffee caramel sauce. Stir while continuing to pour the sauce.
- Cover the ice cream again with cling film and send for three hours to the freezer.
The recipe is very simple. Your children will fall in love with this ice cream from the first spoon!
Bon Appetit! Enjoy the exquisite taste!