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Easy Homemade Christmas Crack Toffee

Easy Homemade Christmas Crack Toffee is a must make holiday treat. Made with saltine crackers, it’s sweet and salty, quick to make, and only 5 ingredients.

5 ingredient Christmas Toffee Crack with text overlay

Last day of #ChristmasSweetsWeek for 2020 and I seriously have been pinning every single recipe being shared.  I hope you have been following along and doing the same this week. With recipes from over 20 bloggers, there so many delicious ones to try! The event is hosted by Terri from Love & Confections and Christie from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures, and as usual the event is spectacular.  If you have a moment, give them some love for hosting.

Today, I am sharing a recipe that I have been wanting to make for quite awhile now.  Homemade Christmas Crack Candy.   It’s easy, sweet, salty, and perfect to share this holiday season.  Package it up and give it as gifts to teachers, neighbors, co-workers, or anyone you know with a sweet tooth. Below the recipe, you will find all of todays delicious recipes from all the bloggers. 

What is Christmas Crack Candy?

When you heat butter and brown sugar together you get a rich, buttery, caramel candy that is poured over saltine crackers.  Then you give a coating of chocolate and sprinkles.  Once the candy is cooled and the chocolate is hardened, you have a delicious sweet and salty toffee treat.  It’s addicting stuff, ya’ll.

How to Make Easy Homemade Christmas Crack Toffee

When making any type of candy recipe, it’s important to have everything out you need as once the caramel mixture is ready, you need to act fast before it hardens.  

ingredients for Christmas crack candy

 

Line a baking sheet with foil and spray it well with nonstick spray.  Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.  In a single layer, place the crackers on the baking sheet. Place a trivet or hot pads under the baking sheet to protect your counter.  The caramel mixture will be extremely HOT when you pour it over the crackers. 

sheet pan with saltine crackers laid out for crack candy

 

In a medium saucepan, add the 2 sticks of butter and 1 cup of brown sugar.  Bring to a boil and stir, let it boil for 3 minutes. Stir often so it doesn’t burn.  

toffee mixture ready to pour over crackers

Pour the caramel mixture evenly over the crackers. Use an offset spatula to evenly coat the crackers with the mixture. Place baking sheet in oven and bake for 3 – 5 minutes, or until bubbling.  Remove pan from oven and immediately scatter 2 cups of chocolate chips over the top.  

layer of saltines, toffee, and chocolate chips for Christmas Crack candy

 

Place pan back in the over for another 2 – 3 minutes to melt the chocolate.  Remove from oven. Using an offset spatula, spread the chocolate evenly over the top of the toffee and crackers. Scatter the sprinkles over the chocolate and allow toffee to cool completely before cutting. 

Christmas crack candy cooling

 

You let it sit at room temperature or place in refrigerator for a few minutes to speed it up.  Cut into pieces and enjoy.

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Christmas Crack candy on sheet pan cooled and ready to cut

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Easy Homemade Christmas Crack Toffee

Easy Homemade Christmas Crack Toffee is a must make holiday treat. Made with saltine crackers, it's sweet and salty, quick to make, and only 5 ingredients.
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Ingredients

  • 40 saltine crackers
  • 2 sticks (1 cup) butter
  • 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
  • 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • holiday sprinkles

Instructions

  • When making any type of candy recipe, it's important to have everything out you need as once the caramel mixture is ready, you need to act fast before it hardens. 
  • Line a baking sheet with foil and spray it well with nonstick spray.  Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.  In a single layer, place the crackers on the baking sheet. Place a trivet or hot pads under the baking sheet to protect your counter.  The caramel mixture will be extremely HOT when you pour it over the crackers. 
  • In a medium saucepan, add the 2 sticks of butter and 1 cup of brown sugar.  Bring to a boil and stir, let it boil for 3 minutes. Stir often so it doesn't burn. 
  • Pour the caramel mixture evenly over the crackers. Use an offset spatula to evenly coat the crackers with the mixture.
  • Place baking sheet in oven and bake for 3 - 5 minutes, or until bubbling. 
  • Remove pan from oven and immediately scatter 2 cups of chocolate chips over the top. 
  • Place pan back in the over for another 2 - 3 minutes to melt the chocolate. 
  • Remove from oven. Using an offset spatula, spread the chocolate evenly over the top of the toffee and crackers.
  • Scatter the sprinkles over the chocolate and allow toffee to cool completely before cutting.
  • You let it sit at room temperature or place in refrigerator for a few minutes to speed it up.  Cut into pieces and enjoy.

Nutritional Disclaimer

“Blogghetti” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and other nutritional values can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.

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Christmas Crack candy close up

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2 Comments

  1. That’s lovely and delicious. I love this and just want to grab a couple of them from the picture.