If you like the sweet, salty, and crunchiness of Take 5 candy bars, you'll love our homemade Take 5 bites. They are delicious!

You might also like our Twix bites, our York bites, or our Reese's bites!

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Take 5 Bites

If you're reading this post, chances are you are already a fan of Take 5 candy bars. I even made an English toffee version a few years ago! The 5 main components are pretzels, peanuts, peanut butter, caramel, and chocolate. The combination is the perfect blend of sweet and salty.

My homemade version includes the same ingredients. I use the same peanut butter filling that I use for my copycat Reese's Peanut Butter Ghosts. They are the perfect bite-sized treat and a wonderful addition to holiday treat platters.

Take 5 Bites Ingredients

This recipe makes 48 bites.

Pretzels: My favorite pretzels to use are snaps. They are square in shape and easy to stack with caramel and peanut butter filling.

The next 4 ingredients are mixed together to form a soft peanut butter filling.

Crunchy peanut butter: instead of using creamy peanut butter and peanuts I simplified things and used crunchy peanut butter.

Butter: I always use salted butter, but you can use unsalted butter if you'd like.

Powdered Sugar: powdered sugar helps bind the filling, making it easy to form into small portions.

Milk: To add a bit of moisture to the filling.

Caramel Candy: I use Brach's caramels (the square ones) and cut them into quarters.

Chocolate almond bark or milk chocolate chips: I find that almond bark is the easiest to melt down for dipping, but you can also use milk chocolate chips with a tablespoon of coconut oil to smooth it out. Take 5 candy bars are made with milk chocolate, but you can make these bites with any kind of chocolate you like. I always use more chocolate than needed. I hate when I get down to the last part and am scraping to cover the treats in chocolate. For this reason, I'll usually add a couple extra ounces.

How to Make Take 5 Candy Bar Bites

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees.

First ½ of Pretzels: Place 48 pretzels (half of the pretzels) onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.

Peanut butter dough: Combine softened butter, powdered sugar, and crunchy peanut butter in a mixing bowl. You can use a Danish dough whisk or electric mixer. Mix until a soft dough forms. If your dough feels a little dry you can add an additional teaspoon of milk. Cover with plastic, to prevent the filling from drying out and set aside.

Caramels: cut each caramel candy into 4 sections. Place one piece of caramel onto each pretzel. Bake for 5-6 minutes.

Second ½ of Pretzels: While the pretzels with caramel are in the oven, arrange the rest of the pretzels onto a cutting board or work surface. Roll the peanut butter filling into small balls and divide it amongst the pretzels, pressing down slightly.

Making Sandwiches: Remove the caramel pretzels from the oven and press each peanut butter pretzel onto a caramel pretzel. Press down to flatten it into a sandwich.

Cooling: Let the Take 5 bites stand until the caramel is at room temperature.

Melt chocolate: Melt the chocolate according to the package instructions or in a double boiler.

Note: if using chocolate chips, and you find that it hasn't melted down thin enough for dipping, you can add a couple of teaspoons of coconut oil or shortening then stir into the warm chocolate.

Dip: Dip each Take 5 bites into chocolate, using a fork. Cover both sizes then tap the fork against the side of the bowl to allow excess chocolate to drip off.

Cool: Place the bites onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and let stand until hardened.

If you enjoyed this recipe, don't miss my growing collection of Copycat Recipes! From famous restaurant dishes and luxury hotel cookies to bakery favorites and nostalgic grocery store treats, there's something for everyone.