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Christmas Crack – Saltine Cracker Toffee

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Christmas Crack is a buttery sweet and salty saltine cracker toffee. It is a favorite dessert at our home, and after you try, it will be yours too. This wonderful dessert is also referred to as Christmas crack, candy crack, and pine bark, to name a few. 

Christmas Crack

Christmas Crack

Christmas Crack Recipe

I stumbled upon this beautiful dessert at church. My friend made it, so I had to ask her for the recipe. Once you try this heavenly saltine toffee bark, you will understand why I had her recipe.

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What is Christmas Crack | Candy Crack?

What is Christmas crack? It is a saltine cracker covered in a buttery brown sugar sauce, then baked and topped off with dark chocolate.

The salty cracker crunch, caramelized butter, and brown sugar with dark chocolate are the perfect combination of textures and flavors for this unforgettable indulgence. Simple. Easy. Delicious.

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Ingredients

  • Chocolate – The perfect top layer for a toffee like treat. You can use milk or dark chocolate chips, wafers, or chopped up bar. 
  • Butter – Enhances flavor and texture to create and helps create a toffee base to pour over the crackers.
  • Saltine Crackers – The crunchy salty base to the Christmas Crack. Any saltine crackers should work. We tend to use Premium Original Saltine Crackers. You can use Ritz if you prefer.
  • Dark Brown Sugar – The base of the toffee mixture that soaks into and hardens on the saltine crackers creating a brittle experience.
Christmas Crack

Christmas Crack - Saltine Cracker Toffee

Buttery sweet and salty saltine cracker toffee is a favorite dessert at our home, and after you try them, it will be yours too.
4.65 from 53 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Christmas Crack, homemade candy, Pine bark, Saltine Cracker Toffee, Saltine toffee
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 16
Calories: 154kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Dark Brown Sugar
  • 1 cup Butter
  • 12 Oz. Chocolate Chips
  • Saltine Crackers

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a 9 by 13" pan with foil. Place one layer of saltines in the pan and set it aside. Combine butter and brown sugar in a saucepan. Bring mixture to a rolling boil for 3 minutes while stirring. Pour mixture over the crackers and bake in the oven for 7 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and sprinkle the candy melts over the candy. As they melt, spread them like icing, then add sprinkles and candies. Refrigerate to cool, then break off pieces and enjoy!
    Plate of Christmas Crack

Equipment

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Notes

Delicious salty-sweet chocolate toffee candy is so easy to make. Christmas crack is a holiday favorite so make a double batch.

Nutrition

Calories: 154kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 105mg | Potassium: 22mg | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 355IU | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 1mg
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How to Make Christmas Crack

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 12 oz. chocolate chips
  • Saltine Crackers (enough to cover a nine by 13 baking sheet)

The first step is to line the nine by 13″ pan with foil.

Then add saltine crackers in a single layer.

Saltine crackers in the pan

Saltine crackers in the pan

This recipe uses only four ingredients, thus making this the easiest candy recipe ever. I used a heavy saucepan to boil the butter and brown sugar mixture.

Everything you need to make Christmas Crack

Everything you need to make Christmas Crack

After boiling the mixture for 3 minutes, pour the hot mixture evenly over the crackers.

Pouring the brown sugar and butter mixture over crackers

Pouring the brown sugar and butter mixture over crackers

I used the back of a wooden spoon to spread hot butter and sugar the mixture over the crackers, but a spatula is even better for this job.

Spreading the hot sugar mixture with a wooden spoon

Spreading the hot sugar mixture with a wooden spoon

Bake for 10 minutes in 350 degree F oven.

Caramelized saltine crackers after baking

Caramelized saltine crackers after baking

Toppings

Remove the pan from the oven and place it on a wire cooling rack. Then immediately spread the chocolate chips evenly over the hot saltine toffee.  After the chocolate starts melting, use a spatula to spread it evenly over the entire surface. You can also melt the chocolate in a double boiler or in a microwave and pour it over the toffee.

Sprinkle the chocolate chips over hot saltine cracker candy

Sprinkle the chocolate chips over hot saltine cracker candy

 

Spreading the melting chocolate chips

Spreading the melting chocolate chips

Spreading out the chocolate

Spreading out the chocolate

I like to add toppings to the warm chocolate chips, such as a half cup of chopped pecans.

Chopped pecan topping

Chopped pecan topping

Saltine Toffee

Saltine Toffee

You can find my favorite Chrismas Cookie recipes in this earlier post. I am sure they will be your favorites too.

 

You may want to try these recipes too:

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake is delicious and easy to make using the Nestle Toll House recipe everyone loves for the basic recipe.

Chocolate Chip Cookie

Chocolate Chip Cookie

Sugar Cookie cake decorated with candy and icing. Perfect for birthdays, Christmas, Valentines, and every day.

Best Christmas Cookie Cake Ever

Best Christmas Cookie Cake Ever

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Bon appétit,

Kippi

 

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Geri

Saturday 23rd of December 2023

Very quick and easy! Turned out great. Will make again.

Esmé Slabbert

Friday 1st of December 2023

Always a treat, and although we have already made all our Christmas goodies, this may still be sneaked in although after the fact and late, but its so yum I visited you via A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING I linked up this week with = 45+46. Hope you will join us M-S SeniorSalonPitStop and W-S #WordlessWednesday. You will find it under BLOGGING.

Terry

Thursday 20th of April 2023

Great treat. Quick and easy to make. Suggest using parchment instead of foil. Slides right off!

Janet

Friday 23rd of December 2022

Everything went well till I tried to spread the chocolate chips over the toffee. They didn’t melt completely and when I tried to spread them, the crackers would com up with the chocolate. I even tried melting them under the broiler with the same results. Finally resorted to squashing them with a spoon and dousing them with sprinkles. They’re in the fridge now. I’ll see how they taste after they cool. This is why I don’t bake.

Kelley

Sunday 18th of December 2022

Please clarify. On this page it says preheat oven to 400 but in another spot it says preheat to 350. Also it states a 10 minute bake time in one spot and 7 minutes in another

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