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cracker toffee with m&m's

Red White & Blue Saltine Cracker Toffee

Source: donuts2crumpets
English toffee made with butter, brown sugar and vanilla with a layer of saltine crackers baked in and decorated in red, white and blue M&M’s for the holiday!
Servings: 12
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
5 from 4 votes

Ingredients
  

  • 40-45 saltine crackers
  • 1 cup salted butter (2 sticks)
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups (12oz bag), of chocolate chips
  • nuts, sprinkles, or M&M’s (optional)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  • Line a rimmed cookie sheet or jelly roll pan with aluminum foil or parchment paper and spray generously with cooking spray.
  • Place your saltines on your cookie sheet in a single layer. (How many saltines you use will depend on the size of your pan. I usually use around 45 – it’s OK if there is a little space around the edges, just pull up the foil to the edges of the crackers to help keep that toffee on the top!)
  • In a saucepan, bring your butter and brown sugar to a low boil over medium high heat and then stir continuously for 4-5 minutes.
  • Remove from heat and immediately stir in your vanilla extract.
  • Pour the hot mixture over your crackers, spread evenly and bake for 5 minutes until it’s bubbling all over.
  • Remove from oven, sprinkle your chocolate chips immediately on top of the crackers, let them sit and soften for a few minutes, then spread chocolate evenly on top of crackers.
  • Sprinkle with nuts, sprinkles, M&M’s or any other toppings you like.
  • Let cool completely, then move to the refrigerator to cool. After a couple of hours, remove from the foil or parchment paper and break up into bite size pieces.

Notes

A couple of tips for this recipe:
  • Use real butter for this recipe – sometimes it’s ok to substitute margarine in recipes, but this is not one of those times.  You need real butter to get that delicious toffee perfection.
  • Feel free to switch up the chocolate chips.  I have done white chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips and my favorite, dark chocolate chips!  However, the white chocolate chips do take longer to melt on the toffee than the other two, so let them sit a couple of minutes longer before spreading.  (Sometimes like today I do half white, half dark!)
  • Make them festive – do chopped nuts, holiday M&M’s, (think Easter, July 4th, Halloween or Christmas colors depending on the season), or ANY kind of sprinkles.  With this basic recipe, you can personalize them in any way you like!