Christmas Crack is an easy recipe to make for the holiday season and is a delicious treat to make part of a holiday cookie plate.
❤️ Why you'll love it
Easy recipe: this salty treat is made with just a handful of ingredients and can be made in under 10 minutes
Holiday favorite: everyone loves this christmas cracker candy recipe and can't get enough of it
Salty sweet flavors: this candy has the perfect combination of salty sweet flavors
🥘 Ingredients
Saltine crackers: I like to use the salted crackers but you can use unsalted if desired.
Salted butter: eliminates the need to add any salt to the toffee mixture.
Brown sugar: you can use either light or dark brown sugar. If using dark brown sugar, the toffee will have a deeper flavor.
Vanilla extract: added to enhance the flavor of the toffee
Semi-sweet chocolate chips: these are placed on top of the hot toffee and allowed to melt making it easy to spread.
Christmas holiday sprinkles: any variety or color sprinkles desired
🔪 Instructions
- Line a large jelly roll pan with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
- Fill the pan with crackers in a single layer, if you need to, break some crackers to fill in all the spaces. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add brown sugar and vanilla, stirring to combine. Cook mixture until it reaches 270° f on a candy thermometer.
- Once temp is reached, remove from heat and pour toffee mixture over crackers on the baking sheet. Using an offset spatula, spread toffee mixture over every cracker.
- While toffee is still hot, top with chocolate chips and let sit for a few minutes, until chips have begun to melt down.
- Using an angled spreader, spread the melted chocolate over the toffee, covering the toffee and crackers. Immediately top the chocolate layer with holiday sprinkles.
- Place in fridge for 1 hour to fully harden the chocolate and toffee.
- Remove and break the cracker into random pieces or use a knife to cut the pieces evenly.
🥄 Equipment
Medium saucepan: to make the toffee
Wooden spoon: to stir the toffee mixture
Jelly roll pan: you need a large pan, if you don't have one, you can use two smaller cookie sheets.
Parchment paper: to line the jelly roll pan
Candy thermometer: to monitor the temperature of the syrup.
Offset spatula: to spread the toffee and chocolate over the crakers.
Kitchen knife: used to help break the candy
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: Store in an airtight container or in the fridge up to 1 week.
Freeze: Store in an airtight freezer safe container up to 3 months.
📖 Variations
- Substitute ritz crackers, club crackers, or graham crackers for the saltines.
- Spread milk chocolate or white chocolate chips instead of dark chocolate chips.
- Make this any time of the year and decorate with toffee chips, mini M&M candies, crushed candy canes, or any of your favorite toppings.
💭 Tips
- This recipe may be called Christmas Crack, but that is only because of the holiday sprinkles! Feel free to make this recipe any time of year and top with whatever your heart desires from sprinkles to candy!
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🍽 Serve with...
Serve this Christmas cracker recipe as a part of your sweets table at your next holiday party.
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Christmas Crack
Equipment
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Ingredients
- ½ sleeve saltine crackers
- 1 cup salted butter
- 1¼ cups brown sugar , packed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¼ cup Holiday sprinkles
Instructions
- Line a large jelly roll pan with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
- Fill the pan with crackers in a single layer, if you need to, break some crackers to fill in all the spaces. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add brown sugar and vanilla, stirring to combine. Cook mixture until it reaches 270° f on a candy thermometer.
- Once temp is reached, remove from heat and pour toffee mixture over crackers on the baking sheet. Using an offset spatula, spread toffee mixture over every cracker.
- While toffee is still hot, top with chocolate chips and let sit for a few minutes, until chips have begun to melt down.
- Using an offset spatula, spread the melted chocolate over the toffee, covering the toffee and crackers. Immediately top the chocolate layer with holiday sprinkles.
- Place in fridge for 1 hour to fully harden the chocolate and toffee.
- Remove and break the cracker into random pieces or use a knife to cut the pieces evenly.
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