Holiday cracker toffee is a simple and delicious recipe that has been around for as long as I can remember. It’s sweet, salty, crunchy with the perfect distribution of chocolate and toffee makes this one of my top tier desserts for the holidays. Not only is it a wonderful dessert but it can be packaged and given as a gift. The base ingredients are standard but the types of toppings are unlimited from: candies, crushed cookies,chopped nuts, pretzels etc… you can’t go wrong with this recipe!

Ingredients:

• 40-50 saltine crackers
• 1 cup salted butter
• 1 cup light or dark brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups chocolate chips

Optional Toppings

• 1 cup toasted pecans optional
• 1 teaspoon coarse sea or kosher salt optional
• 1 cup crushed pretzels optional
• 1 cup candies optional
• 1 cup toffee bits optional

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350º F.

• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper lightly sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
• Arrange crackers onto the sheet pan close together. Set aside.
• Add butter and sugar to a medium saucepan set over medium heat. Once it begins to bubble around the edges, allow to boil for 3 minutes.
• Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
• Pour over crackers and spread evenly.
• Bake for 5 minutes until bubbles. Remove from the oven.
• Sprinkle on chocolate chips and allow to sit for about 5 minutes to soften.
• Spread the softened chocolate evenly over the top of the crackers and caramel.
• Sprinkle with preferred toppings of nuts, pretzels, candies, or sea salt, if using.
• Freeze for 5 minutes to harden. To serve, break pieces of cracker toffee apart and place onto a plate. ENJOY