8 vintage homemade candy bar recipes for an indulgent Halloween

Here's an easy recipe for no-bake chocolate-butterscotch candy bar cookies! They have a luscious layer of butterscotch flavor (mixed in with Cheerios cereal and marshmallows), which is then topped with a delicious layer of chocolate.

Chocolate bars melted with mini marshmallows folded in make this easy but tasty treat. Here’s a retro recipe for how to make this King Mallows chocolate candy!

The basic idea behind these Scotcheroos is to deliciously combine the sweet and luscious flavors of chocolate, butterscotch and peanut butter.

In this easy recipe, the peanut butter is mixed up with some crispy rice cereal (sort of making a batch of PB Rice Krispie squares), then the topping layer is made by melting chocolate chips and butterscotch chips together.

Let them cool, then cut ’em up into bars, and you have a treat everyone will want to try!

The late-1960s brings us a couple of tasty mid century dessert recipes perfect for repurposing any leftover Halloween candy bars you might have laying around!

Here's a way to use up some leftover Halloween candy! This Southern peanut bar cookie is a delicious bar cookie that’s almost like a peanut brittle blondie. It’s made with Snickers Munch peanut brittle bars.

This retro chocolate caramel nut candy recipe is the best of both of the candy bar classics! Think of it as something like Snickers without the nougat or — even better — a Chocolate Payday (yes, this is officially a thing now!).

Either way you slice it? Yummy! And very easy to make at home for either a special occasion or everyday sweet snack. Thank you, 1982.

These vintage homemade candy bars are a lot like a creamy, dreamy, chilly version Snickers bar.

Chilly, creamy and crunchy, but with a flavor profile that might put you in mind of a deconstructed Butterfinger candy bar, you can whip up these freezer butterscotch finger bars in a jiffy.