Valentines S'mores Cracker Candy
Valentine S'mores Cracker Candy is made with graham crackers, butter, sugar, vanilla and chocolate then topped with your favorite toppings for a sweet treat!
Ingredients
- 14 sheets of honey graham crackers (4 to a sheet)
- 1 cup salted butter (2 sticks)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups chocolate chips (12oz bag, I like semi-sweet)
- Kraft Mallow Bits
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Line a 15-17 inch rimmed cookie sheet or jelly roll pan with aluminum foil and spray generously with cooking spray.
- Place your graham crackers on your cookie sheet in a single layer. (How many you use will depend on the size of your pan. I usually use around 14 sheets and if there is a little space around the edges, I just pull up the foil to the edges of the crackers to help keep that toffee on the top!)
- In a large 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 with an offset spatula 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 the sprinkles and mallow bits (or substitute any toppings you like.)
- Let cool then move to the refrigerator to chill. After a couple of hours, remove from the foil and break up into bite size pieces.
- Store in an airtight container for up to one week! (It never lasts that long in my house!)
Notes
A couple of tips for this recipe:
- Make sure you use real butter, not margarine for this recipe - any time you are making caramel or toffee you must use real butter!
- You can absolutely switch out the graham crackers for saltines, Ritz, butter crackers or even pretzel pieces! It just won't be "S'mores" cracker candy.
- I like semi-sweet chocolate chips for this since you already have a lot of sweetness in the graham crackers. bit you do you! I have done dark chocolate on mine too - or milk or white work as well, they are just a lot sweeter.
- You can use any sprinkles or candy toppings you like - to make these Valentines and s'mores themed, I chose a combination of pink sprinkles mix with the mallow bits, but I have also used use chopped nuts, chopped M&M's, different colored sprinkles - just have fun with it!