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This Christmas crack recipe is a delicious homemade candy that’s impossible to resist! It’s salty, sweet, crunchy, and filled with chocolate and caramel.
Christmas crack is a great treat and filler for holiday cookie plates, along with Butter Mints, Turtle Candy, and Gingerbread Cookies!
Reasons Why We Love It!
If you’ve never tried saltine cracker toffee before, it’s a homemade toffee made with saltine crackers, caramel sauce, and chocolate.
This candy recipe is deliciously crunchy and hard to resist (just like our classic Toffee Recipe and Pretzel Toffee).
- Simple. With a quick prep time, these are a favorite!
- Flavor. The salt of the saltine crackers balances out the sweetness perfectly.
- Sharing. We love to break this saltine toffee up into pieces and add the treats to our cookie plates.
Just a Few Ingredients
- Saltine Crackers – (about 35-40 crackers) You can also use Ritz crackers or graham crackers.
- Unsalted Butter
- Brown sugar – We use light brown sugar but dark works too.
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips – Higher quality chocolate like Ghirardelli, will melt and set the best. Change the flavor and use white chocolate chips, dark chocolate, peanut butter chips, or milk chocolate chips
- Sprinkles – Add chopped nuts (pecans, walnuts, or pistachios), crushed peppermints, holiday M&M’s, toffee bits, flaky sea salt, or a drizzle of white chocolate.
How to Make Christmas Crack
- PREP. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Line a 10×15-inch pan with aluminum foil, or parchment paper, and lightly grease.
- CRAKERS. Place the saltine crackers on the baking sheet to cover the entire pan in 1 layer of crackers.
- TOFFEE. Melt together the butter and sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Once the butter is melted, bring it to a boil for 3 minutes while stirring constantly.
- BAKE. Carefully pour the mixture over the crackers. Spread it overtop so that all of the crackers are covered. Bake in the oven for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes.
- CHOCOLATE. Add the chocolate to a medium heatproof bowl. Microwave on medium power for 1-minute bursts, stirring between each. When the chocolate is almost melted, stir until smooth.
- Spoon the chocolate over the crackers, and spread it smooth to completely cover the pan. Decorate with sprinkles.
- CRACK. Let the toffee harden until the chocolate is set. Either at room temperature or in the fridge. Once completely hardened, remove from the pan and peel the aluminum foil off. Break/”crack” it into pieces.
Recipe Tips
- Gritty texture. The main culprit to grainy toffee happens while boiling the mixture. While stirring the mixture, consistently scrape the sides otherwise the sugar will crystallize on the sides of the pan.
- Boil for 3 minutes. It’s important that the brown sugar mixture boils for exactly 3 minutes. If it doesn’t boil long enough the mixture won’t set and will just make the crackers soggy.
- Giftable. Christmas cracker candy makes a great homemade gift. Wrap it in holiday cellophane bags or tins, and everyone will be excited to receive a batch.
Storing info
- Make ahead of time. Easily make Christmas crack candy in advance and have it on hand for cookie plates or neighbor gifts.
- STORE in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days, in the fridge for 10 days, or in the freezer for 4-6 weeks.
For More Homemade Candy:
Christmas Crack Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 sleeve saltine cracker about 35-40 crackers
- 1 cup unsalted butter 2 sticks
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Line a 10×15 inch pan with aluminum foil and lightly grease.
- Place the saltine crackers on the cookie sheet to cover the entire pan in 1 layer of crackers.
- Melt together the butter and sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
- Once the butter is melted, bring it to a boil for 3 minutes while stirring constantly.
- Carefully pour the mixture over the crackers. Spread it overtop so that all of the crackers are covered.
- Bake in the oven for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes.
- Add the chocolate to a medium heatproof bowl. Microwave on medium power for 1-minute bursts, stirring between each. When the chocolate is almost melted, stir until smooth.
- Spoon the chocolate over the crackers, and spread it smooth to completely cover the pan. Decorate with sprinkles.
- Let the toffee harden until the chocolate is set. Either at room temperature or in the fridge.
- Once completely hardened, remove from the pan and peel the aluminum foil off. Break/"crack" it into pieces.
- Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days, or in the fridge for 10 days.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
My family loved this! So easy to make. I used non-stick foil without greasing it. The foil peeled off perfectly. Will defiantly make again.
Oops, definitely will make again!
We love Christmas Crack, I have been making this every year to give to my neighbors. I make an extra batch just for the family to enjoy!! Great sweet treat!!
This is such s simple recipe and it is so good. This is one of my favorite to.handout.
So good and so easy. Every year I ask my sister what she wants for her birthday and Christmas and she always picks this candy. It never lasts long in my house.
It was super easy to make and everyone loved it. Thank you!
Wouldn’t recommend using foil. It tears easily once the toffee sets up and you try to start breaking it apart. Maybe parchment paper instead?
Yep, parchment paper works great!
This Christmas crack is so delicious!! I love the sweet and salty flavors of it and it’s so easy to make too!
Everyone’s favorite! I like to wrap these up and give them out as small gifts for friends and my kids teachers!
This is so perfect for the holidays! Salty, sweet, crunchy, loaded with chocolate and caramel. So delicious!
Love this recipe! Family favorite. Any suggestions on how to get toffee to get under the crackers?
I’m so glad your family loves the recipe! Hmmm… I would say maybe don’t put the crackers so close to one another on the sheet pan. I don’t typically try to get the toffee under the crackers, so I’m not sure. But that’d be my best guess.