Christmas Crack with Saltine Crackers

This Christmas crack with saltine crackers has only five ingredients and no thermometer making it easy to whip together recipes for the holidays. Also called Saltine Christmas bark, chocolatey, buttery, and crunchy and earns its fun name by being deliciously addictive.

What is Christmas Crack?

Christmas crack is a candy made using saltine crackers coated in toffee and topped with chocolate. It’s one of the easiest ways to make candy because it doesn’t need a thermometer just careful timing.

Christmas Crack Recipe

Christmas Crack Ingredients

Christmas Crack Instructions

Step 1 – Preparation

Preheat oven to 350F. Line a large baking sheet with heavy duty aluminum foil. Butter the aluminum foil. Butter a large spoon to use later. Set aside.

Step 2 – Prep the Saltine Cracker Layer

Spread a single layer of crackers all over the bottom of the pan. Fold over the edges of the tin foil to enclose the crackers. Set aside.

Step 3 – Make the Toffee Layer

In a medium saucepan over medium heat. melt the butter, add the brown sugar and vanilla stir well. Bring to a rolling boil.

Once the Christmas crack toffee has started to boil, lower the heat to medium-low. Continue to boil the toffee for 5 minutes, stirring frequently. This image shows what mine looked like after the five minutes. It’s thick and the bubbles are larger as they pop through the surface.

Quickly pour the toffee over the crackers and spread to cover completely using the back side of the buttered spoon.

Once the toffee is spread, place in the oven and let bake until the toffee is bubbly. This will take about 5 minutes.

Step 4 – Chocolate Topping

As soon as you remove the toffee from the oven immediately sprinkle the chocolate chips on top.

Let stand for 2-3 minutes until the chocolate starts to look shiny and soft enough to spread. Using a buttered spatula or knife spread the melted chips over the toffee.

Note: Our kitchen is cold this time of year which can make it harder for the chocolate chips to melt. If this happens, and the chips haven’t melted after a couple of minutes. Pop them back into the oven and watch them closely. As soon as they are melted remove from the oven and spread.

Sprinkle toppings of your choice over the chocolate.

Place in the fridge uncovered until solid. This will take about 1-2 hours. Remove from foil and break into pieces using a large knife.

Christmas Crack Recipe Video

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Storing Christmas Crack

Store the Christmas crack in an air tight container. The Christmas crack will keep on the counter for 5 days. You can free it up to 3 months. When freezing I like to package my Christmas crack in bundles of parchment paper and then place it in an airtight container.

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Christmas Crack with Saltine Crackers

This Christmas crack with saltine crackers has only five ingredients and no thermometer making it easy to whip together recipe for the holidays. Its chocolatey, buttery and crunchy and earns its fun name by being deliciously addictive.

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Prep Time:10 minutes mins

Chilling Time:1 hour hr

Ingredients

• 1 cup 227g unsalted or salted butter
• 1 cup 220g packed light or dark brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 35-40 salted saltine crackers about 1 sleeve
• 1 pkg 270g-300g 2 cups milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips
• Additional toppings like pecans almonds, flakey salt, crushed candy canes, or Christmas sprinkles (optional)

Instructions

Step 1 – Preparation

• Preheat oven to 350F. Line a large baking sheet with heavy duty aluminum foil. Butter the aluminum foil. Butter a large spoon to use later. Set aside.

Step 2 – Prep the Saltine Cracker Layer

• Spread a single layer of crackers all over the bottom of the pan. Fold over the edges of the tin foil to enclose the crackers. Set aside.
  

Step 3 – Make the Toffee Layer

• In a medium saucepan over medium heat. melt the butter, add the brown sugar and vanilla stir well. Bring to a rolling boil.
  
• Once the Christmas crack toffee has started to boil, lower the heat to medium-low. Continue to boil the toffee for 5 minutes, stirring frequently. This image shows what mine looked like after the five minutes. Its thick and the bubbles are larger as they pop through the surface.
  
• Quickly pour the toffee over the crackers and spread to cover completely using the back side of the buttered spoon.
  
• Once the toffee is spread, place in the oven and let bake until the toffee is bubbly. This will take about 5 minutes.

Step 4 – Chocolate Topping

• As soon as you remove the toffee from the oven immediately sprinkle the chocolate chips on top.
• Let stand for 2-3 minutes until the chocolate starts to look shiny and soft enough to spread. Using a buttered spatula or knife spread the melted chips over the toffee.
  
• Place in the fridge uncovered until solid. This will take about 1-2 hours. Remove from foil and break into pieces using a large knife.
• Sprinkle toppings of your choice over the chocolate.
  

Notes

Our kitchen is cold this time of year which can make it harder for the chocolate chips to melt. If this happens, and the chips haven’t melted after a couple of minutes. Pop them back into the oven and watch them closely. As soon as they are melted remove from the oven and spread.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American, Canadian

Keyword: Christmas Crack Recipe

Servings: 40 pieces

Author: Leanna Forsythe

Cost: $5

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