I want to make a disclaimer on this post: I don’t really eat that much junk food. Honestly. I know it seems like it, what with every other post being a chocolate cake or a marshmallow mousse or fruity alcoholic drink or yet another homemade candy bar. I eat a lot of fruit, veggies, whole grains and nonfat dairy. Honestly. It’s just that those things aren’t nearly as fun to write about.

But anyway. Let’s move on to the topic at hand. Which is a post on yet another homemade candy bar! But not just any candy bar: homemade Heath bars. Do you know what a Heath bar is? I didn’t. It’s toffee, wrapped in chocolate. Do you know what toffee is? Sugar and butter. Which is then smothered in chocolate. So that’s three essential food groups right there. Oh and there’s nuts, too, so that’s…you know…vitamin E. And protein…

My boss Lynne requested these. And I blame Jeff. He started this, requesting a batch of homemade Snickers bars, which turned out remarkably well. Then another coworker requested M&Ms, which I haven’t figured out yet, and then Lynne requested Heath bars for her birthday. Now that those are conquered, I’ll have to work on Take 5 bars, Butterfingers and Twixes. And then I’m going to fall into a deep sugar coma that will hopefully last all winter, so I can skip the whole “freezing my butt off” thing.

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