3 Ingredient Homemade Butterfingers
A great recipe for homemade Butterfingers using only 3 ingredients. The crispy, crunchy texture is so similar to the popular name-brand candy bars.
That’s right – 3 ingredients in these homemade butterfingers!
Butterfingers were always my favorite candy growing up and they still are. They were followed closely by Skittles and Snickers. In fact, I loved them so much that I used to trade my brothers two Reese’s Cups just for a Butterfinger at Halloween.
I always thought they had just the right amount of flakiness, peanut butter and chocolate flavor to them. When I saw a recipe where I could make them at home I was skeptical, especially when I saw they were made with melted candy corn.
I have to say, though, they truly did taste like Butterfingers! It is unreal! The taste was definitely spot-on.
I don’t even want to admit how many of these made it into my mouth, but I’m sure you can imagine. I made sure I whipped these up when I knew I had company coming over because I didn’t trust myself to be alone with them.
I had four of my good friends come visit this past weekend to see my new house and they partook in the Butterfinger goodness. Either they were lying, or they really enjoyed them as much as I did.
You can definitely tackle this, even if you are not an expert baker. Seriously – these homemade butterfingers are great! I am planning to stock up on candy corn so I can make these year-round.
- 16 ounces, weight Candy Corn
- 16 ounces, weight Creamy Peanut Butter
- 3 cups Milk Or Dark Chocolate
- Line an 8×8 or 9×9 inch pan with wax paper.
- Melt the candy corn in the microwave in a medium bowl, stirring every 30 seconds. Continue heating in 30 seconds increments, stirring in between, until completely melted and smooth. Stir in the peanut butter until equally distributed and smooth. Pour into prepared pan and smooth. Place in the freezer for 10-20 minutes until firm.
- In the meantime line a large baking sheet with wax paper.
- Take the chilled bars out of the pan and cut them into mini Butterfinger size bars. Any size you want is fine!
- Melt the chocolate in a medium bowl in the microwave stirring every 30 seconds and continuing to heat for additional 30 second bursts until smooth.
- Using a fork, dip each Butterfinger into the chocolate, turning to cover completely. Take the bar out of chocolate with fork and tap lightly on the side of the bowl so that excess chocolate falls off. Place on the wax paper lined baking sheet. Continue with Butterfingers until all are dipped. (If at any point your chocolate becomes too hard to dip, simply return it to the microwave and heat for another 10-15 seconds and stir. Do this throughout the process as needed.)
- When all bars have been dipped, place them in the freezer for an additional 5-10 minutes. Serve cooled from the 'fridge or at room temperature!
Recipe source: tastykitchen.com
Isn’t is amazing how silly easy these are to make?! I am a Butterfinger FIEND and always traded ridiculous things to get my paws on these at Halloween 🙂 and licorice. Duuude, don’t even get me started with my licorice/gummy obsession.
These look SO good and make me want to stuff my face with Butterfingers for breakfast. Totally normal, right!?
I would say it as ABnormal if you didn’t want to have these for breakfast. haha!
It’s fascinating what you can come up with! I just saw a recipe for a mousse that uses melted marshmallows, so the candy corn isn’t throwing me any..Some years ago I found a recipe for candy filling that ended up tasting like the middle of a Three Musketeers .I was making a lot of candy in molds at the time and it was wonderful with caramel and/or nuts. I don;t usually like chocolate and peanut butter but I make an exception for Butterfingers!
Yes, I love coming across ideas like this….I only wish I had known about them sooner!
Whaaaat?! You can make butterfingers with candy corn and peanut butter? Get out!
I know – who knew?!
I am so going to make these tomorrow!! Who woulda thought?? I’ve told everyone about these today…lol!
I know – it’s amazing!
That still blows my mind–candy corn!! Who woulda thunk it?!
I know RIGHT 😉
That’s totally amazing! Never would have thought of using candy corn. Love Butterfingers but only allow myself to eat them on Halloween.
I eat them all year round in moderation – I allow myself to splurge around Halloween 🙂
Ashley, I’ve been DYING to try this out! peanut butter and candy corns are like my two favorite things ever – never ever would’ve thought up this combination AND that it would taste like BUTTERFINGER! Who knew. 😉
Me, too! That’s why I couldn’t wait another day to make them!
you just might be my new favorite recipe blog – I love how great and easy your recipes look! Not to mention the ingredients are pretty easy to find 🙂
Wow, thanks Kailey! That was such a nice compliment! I do try to keep things simple 🙂
I am so amazed at just 3 ingredients! And never would have thought of the candy corn. But I love these!
I know – I was amazed at how accurate they tasted!
i am so amazed by these! just 3 ingredients? that is so cool! i’ve gotta try them!
They are so easy!
These look amazing, and such an easy recipe. I never would have thought to use candy corn. 🙂
Thanks, Christina! I was amazed at how they tasted so close to real Butterfingers
My daughter just got braces and was told no more butter fingers so tonight I surprised her when she came in from basketball practice with this recipe, the inside is not as hard and sticky as a butter finger so she was able to have one of her favorite treats. Thanks so much, now I will be on the hunt for candy corn, now how can we figure out how she could have pop corn or something like it, she loves pop corn.
I feel her pain – I had braces for 4 years! I cheated a lot with the foods I wasn’t supposed to eat 🙂 Sometimes it’s gotta happen…
WHOA, love this ides!!! Nothing better than homemade candy!
I agree! Thanks, Ashley!
Can’t wait to try. You can also mix half and half candy corn and dry roasted peanuts together. Tastes just like a payday.
How is the Texture of these compared to an actual butterfinger candy bar? With those ingredients it seems like it would be softer and not as crunchy? I’m really excited to try these!!!
I’d say they are pretty close! Maybe a tad bit chewier!! They are really good 🙂