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Christmas Crack Recipe

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The name of this Christmas Crack recipe makes it sound sketchy but trust me, it is heavenly.

I love Christmas Crack for three reasons. 1) It’s Yummy. 2) It’s the easiest dessert that I’ve ever made. 3) You kinda feel gangsta.

So what is Christmas Crack (also known as Christmas Toffee)? It’s a super simple dessert that has a toffee layer on the bottom covered in chocolate with optional toppings. Why is it named Christmas Crack? I’m guessing it’s because it is super addictive but I didn’t name it so don’t blame me.

Christmas Crack Recipe and Step-By-Step Tutorial:

To make it you will need:

1 cup of butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 sleeve of Saltine Crackers
1 bag of chocolate chips
assorted toppings such as pretzels or m&m’s

First, preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

Next line a sheet cake pan or jelly roll pan with foil that has been well oiled. Trust me, you don’t want to skip the tin foil step. It will make the Christmas Crack / Christmas Toffee easy to remove from the pan and clean up will be a breeze. You will also need a pan with sides so a cookie sheet won’t work the best. A jelly roll pan or baking dish will work best.

Lay out the crackers in a single layer in the bottom of the pan.

Fill you pan with a single layer of crackers. A 9X13 pan works best but as long as you stick to about one sleeve of crackers, you can use a bigger pan. If you use a bigger pan don’t try to fill the entire pan. Use one sleeve of crackers, which is about 40 saltine crackers and it will work.

Ingredients for Christmas Crack / Christmas Toffee

Next, put the 1 cup of butter and 3/4 cup brown sugar into a pan and bring it to a boil. You need to stir it constantly until it is well blended and you can’t see the butter on the top anymore. Once it is blended let it boil for 5 minutes while stirring.

Make sure you have the crackers done before this step is done.

When it is ready the toffee will pull away from the edge of the pan easily.

Once it’s ready, immediately pour the toffee over the top of the crackers and spread it out.

Straighten up any wayward crackers with a fork. If your toffee doesn’t spread all the way to the edges or over all the crackers, don’t worry about it as it will spread out in the oven. Pop the pan of toffee covered crackers into the oven for 5-6 minutes.

During this time you might want to wash the pan you used to make the toffee because once it sets up, it is really hard to get out of the pan. After the 5-6 minutes pull out the crackers and let them cool for about 5 minutes.

Be careful – at this point the toffee is extremely hot but we’re going to use this to our favor.

Let the toffee cool for about 5 minutes and then sprinkle the top with chocolate chips. The heat will start melting the chocolate chips. You can be patient and wait or be like me and put it back in the oven for 60 seconds.

And now comes the best part (well.. not including eating it)…

There’s nothing like smoothing chocolate. Plus if no one’s looking, you can lick the spatula.

You don’t have to stop here. You can add a variety of toppings before the chocolate hardens. I’m a plain jane type person so I’m happy with traditional Christmas Crack but some people like to add crushed pretzels, M&M’s, or even crushed candy canes. I added crushed pretzels to a small section of this batch for a friend.

Here’s the sad part – Now you have to let the chocolate set up. Yes. It will take a lot of will power.

Put this to the side for 4-5 hours or if you’re in a rush, you can pop it in the freezer for 20 minutes. If you put it in the freezer it can make the toffee layer a little bit softer when you pull it out – BUT IT’S STILL YUMMY.

When the chocolate is hard set, pull it away from the tin foil and break it into pieces. Then I dare you not to try and put some in your mouth.

I first published this recipe in 2011 and every year since then, as soon as December 1st hits, I start getting text message requests for it. Everyone loves it. However I’ve never messed it up in all those years. It’s really that easy to make.

Yummy and easy. Does it get any better? Oh yea! You get to offer all your super conservative friends some crack.

Don’t forget to follow along for more Christmas Goodies!

Christmas Crack Recipe

2013-12-02 23:16:24

An easy Christmas Toffee Recipe

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Ingredients

1 cup of butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 sleeve of Saltine Crackers
1 bag of chocolate chips
assorted toppings such as pretzels or m&m's

Instructions

First preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
Line a sheet cake pan or jelly roll pan with foil that has been well oiled. You need a pan with sides.
Lay out the crackers in a single layer in the bottom of the pan. Lay the crackers in the bottom of the pan in a single layer with little to no space between crackers. It will take about one sleeve of saltines.
Next put the 1 cup of butter and 3/4 cup brown sugar into a pan on the stove and bring it to a boil. You need to stir it constantly until it is well blended and you can’t see the butter on the top anymore. Once it is blended let it boil for 5 minutes while stirring. Make sure you have the crackers done before this step.
When it is ready the toffee will pull away from the edge of the pan easily.
Now you need to pour the toffee over the top of the crackers and spread it out.
Straighten up any wayward crackers with a fork. Then immediately place this in the oven for 5-6 minutes. After 5 minutes pull it out of the oven and spread the chocolate chips on top carefully, the mixture will be extremely hot.
As the chips melt smooth them with a spatula to make an even layer of chocolate.
Let this stand until cooled or you can pop it into the freezer to speed up the process.

By Clumsy Crafter

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