Christmas crack
Saltine crackers. Five ingredients. Christmas crack: saltine crackers under a butter and brown sugar toffee, baked 5 minutes, then topped with melted chocolate chips and pecans.
Why it works: The butter and brown sugar boil into toffee that bakes into the crackers; the hot toffee melts the chips on top.
Ingredients
- 35-40 saltine crackers
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup chopped pecans
Method
- Cover a 10x15-inch baking sheet in foil, spray the foil with cooking spray and heat the oven to 400°F.
- Cover the sheet with the 35-40 saltines, laid edge to edge in straight rows.
- Put the 1 cup butter and 1 cup brown sugar in a saucepan and set it on medium-high heat. When they have melted together, whisk and let it bubble for a few minutes.
- Pour the hot mixture over all the crackers and bake for 5 minutes.
- Straight out of the oven, scatter the 2 cups chocolate chips over the top. Give them a few minutes to soften.
- Spread the soft chocolate into one even layer and sprinkle the ½ cup chopped pecans over it.
- Leave it until it has set hard, then cut it into pieces.
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June's tip: Let it harden completely before you cut it, and spread the chocolate only once the chips have softened.
Good to know: Salted saltines are the point: the salt against the toffee and chocolate is why it works.
Adapted from Best Christmas Crack Recipe, The Recipe Critic. Amounts, temperatures and times follow the source; the steps are in our own words, and metric and °C conversions are ours. We check every amount against the source line by line. How we make our recipes.
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