Instructions: Spread peanuts out on a baking sheet and heat them up in your oven set on 300 degrees. This will warm up the peanuts so that they dont cool the candy too quickly when added later. Theres no need to preheat the oven.

Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium/low heat.

Add sugar and corn syrup and simmer, stirring occasionally. Put a candy thermometer in the mixture and watch it closely.

When the mixture reaches 300 degrees add peanuts and stir well until all of the peanuts are coated with candy. Pour the candy onto the warm baking sheet and spread it flat. When the candy cools, break it into chunks and store it in a covered container.

Makes the equivalent of 12 1.5-ounce candy bars.

If you check out my candy bar wrapper collection from the mid-70s here, youll see what the wrapper for this bar used to look like before also see what candy bars looked like when they were only 15 cents!). Now the peanut-riddled Munch Bar is called Snickers Munch Bar and it takes only four ingredients plus a candy thermometer to clone the equivalent of 12 of these addictive candy bars in your own kitchen. Be sure the dry roasted peanuts you use are the salted kind, and watch that thermometer closely once the candy gets simmering.

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