Add this Christmas Crack (aka Easy Saltine Toffee Candy) to your holiday baking list! Only 6 ingredients necessary to make the most addicting holiday treat yet! It’s the perfect combo of sweet/salty/crunchy!
Need more Christmas treats? Be sure to check out: easy peanut butter fudge, chocolate crinkle cookies, cut out sugar cookies, Grandma’s sugar cookies, easy chocolate fudge, and more!
I have a very important announcement to make.
This week . . .
Is CHRISTMAS COOKIE AND CANDY WEEK!
Get excited, because I have 4 new recipes comin’ at ya: two new candy recipes and two new cookie recipes.
Today, we’re kickin’ off Christmas Cookie and Candy week with the most perfect, easy, addicting holiday treat:
Christmas Crack!
Everyone loves it, it’s crazy easy to make, it’s sweet and salty, AND you only need six ingredients to make it!
Are you ready to get your holiday bake on?
I originally got the recipe for this treat from my neighbor Cristina (Hiiiii Cristina! 👋). She brought some over to us a few months ago and I was immediately hooked.
It honestly is the perfect combination of sweet, salty, caramel-y, chocolatey, crunchy amazingness.
I asked her if it was easy to make and she said it’s literally the easiest candy recipe ever.
And you guys, this is actually the easiest candy recipe.
Ever.
How do you make this easy Christmas crack candy recipe?
- Combine butter and brown sugar into a large saucepan
- Let boil for a couple minutes
- Pour over saltine crackers
- Bake crackers in the oven for 5 minutes
- Top with dark chocolate chips
- Spread melted chips with a spatula
- Top with toffee bits and a drizzle of white chocolate
- Let harden in the fridge or freezer
- Crack into pieces
- d.e.v.o.u.r.
Like, seriously, try to stop yourself at just one piece.
It’s nearly impossible.
I’m sure you guys have seen or even made Christmas Crack before, but THIS recipe is the best, because I use:
- one whole sleeve of saltines
- TWO whole sticks of butter
- one whole package of dark chocolate chips
Meaning, there’s hardly any measuring to do at all!
Can I make this Ritz cracker candy? Or make this crack candy recipe with graham crackers?
Probably! I haven’t personally tried this, but I think using ritz crackers or graham crackers would be absolutely delicious!
Can I make saltine cracker toffee without chocolate?
I mean. I wouldn’t. 😉 But in theory, yes, you could make this recipe without chocolate. It’ll still be delicious: helloooo brown sugar and butter. But I think the chocolate adds really nice flavor.
Easy. Addicting. Perfection.
Make this Christmas Crack for yourself, or make it to give out for holiday gifts.
And if you do… could you send a little more my way?
Please? 😉
Happy Holidays!
– Jennifer
What’s YOUR favorite holiday candy recipe? Be sure to stay tuned this week for THREE more recipes! Show Me the Yummy!
- 1 sleeve salted saltine crackers about 42 crackers
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 (12 oz) package dark chocolate chips
- heath toffee bits
- white chocolate melted
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line a rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper. Grease parchment paper with cooking spray.
- Place crackers side by side on lined pan. Set aside.
- In a large saucepan, combine butter and brown sugar.
- Bring to boil over medium/medium-high heat and boil for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Pour evenly over crackers.
- Bake in preheated oven for 5 minutes.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips on top.
- Let stand for 5 minutes, then use the back of a spoon to spread melted chocolate chips evenly over the crackers.
- Top with toffee bits and drizzle with white chocolate.
- Cool completely in fridge (about an hour or two) or in freezer (about 20 minutes), then break into pieces.
- Store in fridge in covered airtight container.
Nutritional information does not include Heath or white chocolate.
This stuff is insanely addicting. Any holiday party it’s at, I basically lose all self-control.
Hahaha me too! It’s dangerous having this around the house!
I can see why you named this Christmas Crack, it looks insanely addicting!
Ha! Thanks Matt!
This spells TROUBLE!! Love the video!!
Hahaha thanks Mary Ann!
THIS is my favorite Christmas candy! I’ve made this before with a different recipe but this is easier. I am totally making this.
Aww thank you, Eva! I can see why this is your favorite!!
So well named!! This is my favorite holiday treat. Be warned…you will become addicted!
Ha! Thanks Susie!!!! 🙂
Totally addicting and amazing!!! LOVE this and LOVE the video!!! Will definitely be making this soon!
Thanks Alice!
Oh my gosh, BEST WEEK EVER. I’m loving how simple this recipe is to put together too! 🙂 This is definitely my kind of crack! 😉 And I actually prefer dessert over freestanding chocolate any day, but if I had to pick, my favorite Christmas candy recipe is probably peppermint bark!
Peppermint bark is sooooo yummy! Thanks Marina!
It looks just heavenly..What about using Ritz Crackers?
Thank you so much Joan! I think that would be delicious 🙂
Love Christmas crack! This is the best!
Thanks Tieghan!
I make this with pretzels instead of the crackers and it’s so good! You are going to have to try that too! So pumped to meet you in February!
Oh YUM! Definitely trying this with pretzels 🙂 SO pumped to meet you as well!!!!
Can I use milk chocolate instead? Also what is the purpose of using unsalted butter instead of salted butter? I am a novice if you can’t tell 🙂
Hi Michelle! Yes! You can use milk chocolate 🙂 The reason I use unsalted butter is because then you can control the amount of salt that goes into the recipe. With the salty saltines, I didn’t think this recipe needed any more salt. I hope that helps! 🙂
I made the Christmas Crack recipe this evening and on the positive side, it looked delicious and pretty! However, when it came time to break it into pieces, the candy stuck to the parchment paper and the top chocolate layer separated from the cracker layer. What a disaster! So, now I have paper coated candy with mix and match pieces that don’t stay together! Should I skip the parchment paper step and just butter the pan well instead? ….and why did it separate?
Hi Laura! That is so bizarre! That’s never happened to me.
1. For sticking – did you lay the crackers down on the parchment paper first then pour the butter/brown sugar mixture on top of the crackers? The crackers should act as a barrier between the parchment paper. If you wanted to be safe, you could spray the parchment paper with cooking spray.
2. What kind of chocolate were you using? Did you stir the brown sugar/butter mixture while cooking? My only thought would be that the chocolate was really oily or that the butter separated from the sugar and that’s why the chocolate didn’t stick.
Let me know if that helps!! 🙂 We also have a video in the post if it helps to watch the recipe being made as well!
I love this recipe! I want to use graham or matzos crackers, would I still use the unsalted butter? Have full boxes of each that need to be used. Love your website. Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas.
Thank you so much Linda! I think I would use salted for either of those. 🙂 Enjoy and Merry Christmas!
I made this today and my butter/sugar mix wasn’t as thick as yours. It tasted delish, but was just too thin. Any suggestions on what I might have done wrong? Thanks in advance.
Hi Colleen! Did it still set up ok in the freezer? Just cook it a little longer next time or make sure it’s really boiling! 🙂
Do you have to store them in the refrigerator, I would like to put them in a tin to give out for Christmas how long can they sit out
Thank You!
I’d say they can sit at room temperature for a week 🙂
Can this be frozen? I’d like to make it early.
Absolutely!
This is going to my next cookie exchange! Delicious and so crispy. The sweet and salty is always a winner.
Thank you! 🙂
It doesn’t tell you how much Heath Toffee bits, not white chocolate to use. Do how much am I to use?
You can use as much or as little as you like! I didn’t measure. 🙂
These are so good! I haven’t had Christmas Crack in years – and it was always brought into the office by a co-worker. It was so good to find this recipe – it’s just like I remembered! And… have made it twice already because we gave most of it away! (and still have two more sleeves of crackers to go… LOL!).
Aww yay!! Thank you!!
How far ahead can I make this and does it freeze ?
Yes you can freeze it! If you’re freezing it, it can be made a month in advance probably!
Will the cracker go soggy if you freeze this recipe ? ?
Nope! 🙂
Can I make this ahead a few week and freeze it.
Absolutely! I’d let it thaw at room temperature or in the fridge when you’re wanting to serve it, so you don’t break a tooth on the frozen toffee, ha!!
Try this with chopped *fresh* rosemary and sea salt – it’s amazing.
Sounds so interesting!
For those that enjoy pecans or walnuts they also make a great topping over the chocolate on these treats in place of more.
Love it!
Does it matter if it is salted or unsalted butter?
Shouldn’t make too much of a difference!
BUt should be salt free and dose it mater how you put the crackers down salt up or down ?
Doesn’t matter, but I always put salt up 🙂
Why did my chocolate chips turn powdery?? I took crackers out of oven and I put in chips and placed into oven for 2 minutes and then out and then when I spreader the chips were like sand! My spatula was dry. Ty, D
Hi Denise! What brand did you use? I’ve never had chocolate chips turn to powder before!! It sounds like they were really old or a bad batch of chocolate chips.
Too long in the oven. That happened to me once with Hershey kisses
That’d have to be a really long time in the oven, ha! Not a couple minutes.
For crack candy what kind of butter is Best ?
I use unsalted butter, but salted would be fine. I just use the generic stick butter found at the grocery store 🙂
I used graham crackers instead of saltines and spread kosher salt on top of the crackers and again on the top of the chocolate to counter the sweetness of the graham. I sprinkled it by hand until it looked right. AHmazing! The balance of brown sugar and butter is the bomb!
Love it!!!! Thanks so much! 🙂
Hi,
Could I use chocolate bark instead of morsels?
Sure! 🙂
I love this. A friend made it for Christmas and it was delicious.
Thanks so much Teresa!! 🙂
Is it okay to eat this after Christmas? I just found the recipe today and I added pecans to one corner.
Yep! 🙂