Homemade Cookies and Cream Candy Bar Recipe (2024)

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Have you ever tried to make your own candy bars? It is actually quite easy! Not only is it easy, but it gives you complete control over the ingredients, so you can make better quality candy for less money.

Homemade Cookies and Cream Candy Bar Recipe (1)

When I was making bark candy for my kids last week, I realized how easy it would be to turn the bark into candy bars. The first time I made the candy bars, I made them in a similar manner to bark candy and then used a pizza cutter to cut the candy into bars. Then I ordered some Candy Bar Molds and cut the recipe in half and made a little more professional looking candy bars. Both ways taste delicious!

Below I will share both ways of adapting my bark candy recipe to make Cookies and Cream Candy Bars.You can use either candy bar molds or the baking sheet method – whichever is easiest for you.

You can make these candy bars dairy-free, by using dairy-free white chocolate.

If you want to make these candy bars gluten-free, then use gluten-free chocolate sandwich cookies and gluten-free vanilla.

Cookies and Cream Candy Bar Recipe with Molds

Ingredients

  • 12 ounces white chocolate
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 4 Oreo cookies

Tools Needed:

A set of 4 Candy Bar Molds

Directions:

1. Scrape the cream out of the center of the Oreo cookies. Then crush the chocolate cookies.

2. Melt 12 ounces of white chocolate chips, 1 tablespoon shortening, and ½ teaspoon of vanilla for 1 minute in a glass bowl in the microwave. Stir and melt for another 20 seconds. Stir again and if necessary melt for a few more seconds. If it starts to get clumpy, stir like crazy to make it smooth again.

3. Once melted stir in ½ cup of the cookie crumbs until just blended. Do not over-stir.

4. Spoon the melted chocolate into the Candy Bar Molds. Then use a spatula to spread it evenly in the mold.

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5. Let sit for 2 hours to firm up or put the molds in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Homemade Cookies and Cream Candy Bar Recipe (3)

Cookies & Cream Candy Bars without Molds

Ingredients

  • 24 ounces white chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup chocolate cookies crumbs

Directions:

1. Cover a cookie sheet with foil.

2. Scrape the cream out of the center of the Oreo cookies. Then crush the chocolate cookies.

3. Melt 12 ounces of white chocolate chips, 1 tablespoon shortening, and ½ teaspoon of vanilla for a minute in a glass bowl in the microwave. Stir and melt for another 20 seconds. Stir again and if necessary melt for a few more seconds. If it starts to get clumpy, stir like crazy to make it smooth again.

4. Once melted stir in ½ cup of the cookie crumbs until just blended. Do not over-stir.

5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with the remaining ingredients.

6. Spoon the melted chocolate on to the cookie sheet. Then use a spatula to spread it evenly over the foil.

7. Let sit for 2 hours to firm up or put it in the freezer for 10 minutes.

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8. Once the candy is firm, place it on a cutting board and use a pizza cutter or knife to cut the candy into bars.

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9. I repurposed the foil that I used to line the cookie sheet to make “candy wrappers”.

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Printable Cookies and Cream Candy Bar Recipe

This homemade Cookies & Cream Candy Bar recipe is adapted from Cookies and Cream Bark

Cookies and Cream Candy Bar

Homemade Cookies and Cream Candy Bar Recipe (7)

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Author: Alea

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Serves: 14

Ingredients

  • 24 ounces white chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup chocolate cookies crumbs

Directions

  1. Cover a cookie sheet with foil.
  2. Melt 12 ounces of white chocolate chips, 1 tablespoon shortening, and ½ teaspoon of vanilla for a minute in a glass bowl in the microwave. Stir and melt for another 20 seconds. Stir again and if necessary melt for a few more seconds. If it starts to get clumpy, stir like crazy to make it smooth again.
  3. Once melted stir in ½ cup of the cookie crumbs until just blended. Do not over-stir.
  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with the remaining ingredients.
  5. Spoon the melted chocolate on to the cookie sheet. Then use a spatula to spread it evenly over the foil.
  6. Let sit for 2 hours to firm up or put it in the freezer for 10 minutes. Use a pizza cutter to divide the candy in half lengthwise. Then cut the candy in 2 inch wide bars.
  7. Use foil from cookie sheet to wrap individual candy bars. You can store candy bars in the freezer.

Notes

Use foil from cookie sheet to wrap individual candy bars. You can store candy bars in the freezer.


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More Candy Bark Recipes

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  • Coffee Bean Bark
  • Cinnamon Bark
  • Raspberry Bark
  • Rocky Road Bark
  • Peanut Butter Bark with Pretzels

About Alea Milham

Alea Milham is the owner of Premeditated Leftovers and the author of Prep-Ahead Meals from Scatch. She shares her tips for saving money and time while reducing waste in her home. Her favorite hobby, gardening, is a frugal source of organic produce for her recipes. She believes it is possible to live fully and eat well while spending less.

Comments

  1. Bruh says

    They look so Yummy!

    Reply

  2. ZACHARIE MONARCE says

    Hi

    How can I calculate the nutritional values in the bars? Do I need a food scale?

    Reply

  3. April @ The 21st Century Housewife says

    These candy bars look so good, Alea! I can’t decide which one is my favourite, so I guess I will have to make them both… 🙂

    Reply

  4. Mary Hudak-Colllins says

    Okay, I have to think just a bit in order to make these dairy free, but I know I can do it! They look to blang good not to be able to. I would love for you to share this on my recipe hop this coming Monday. Who doesn’t like a candy bar…definitely not me LOL. You have tapped my weakness ☺

    Reply

  5. Swathi says

    Nice recipes Alea.

    Reply

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Homemade Cookies and Cream Candy Bar Recipe (2024)

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Hershey's Cookie 'n' Creme Snack Size (3 bars) contains 23g total carbs, 23g net carbs, 10g fat, 3g protein, and 200 calories.

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The first batch of cookies and cream ice cream made at SDSU was in 1979 when Shirley Seas, manager at the campus dairy plant, asked two students to buy Oreos from a nearby grocery story and add them to the ice cream they were making that day.

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In 2006, The New York Times reported that Blue Bell made "no claim to have invented it but certainly pioneered the flavor." However, as of 2020, the company's website proclaimed, "We were first to create this innovative flavor." Blue Bell Creameries applied to register the trademark "Cookies 'n Cream" in 1981.

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