Crunchy, sweet, salty, and easy brown sugar buttery toffee with saltine crackers!
Saltine toffee is all over the internet, but there’s only a few of us who add peanut butter to the mix. Peanut butter + chocolate + toffee. Let’s be real. This toffee is miraculous.
Let’s walk through it real quick.
Grab a rimmed baking sheet. Rimmed so toffee doesn’t drip over the edges. I always use my half sheet pan. Then, line the pan with a silicone baking mat or spray with nonstick spray. Parchment paper works too. Line the sheet with a sleeve of saltines. About 35-40 crackers.
So then you’ll make the shortcut toffee syrup. Which is only two ingredients: butter and brown sugar. Boil them together. The butter will take on a lovely browned butter flavor and the brown sugar? Well its flavor is just fabulous. Don’t use brown sugar in traditional homemade toffee recipes. You know, the kind using a candy thermometer. Too much moisture. But brown sugar in this easy saltine toffee works.
Pour the toffee syrup over the crackers. Then, and this is the weird part (as if crackers and toffee wasn’t weird already?!?), bake the crackers + toffee syrup. Only bake for about 5 minutes. The toffee will boil, bubble, and spread all around the crackers. This quick bake in the oven helps to solidify the toffee later in the recipe.
Right after the oven step, spread melted peanut butter over the warm toffee. Then, sprinkle on some chocolate. The chocolate options are endless. You can use chocolate chips (semi-sweet, milk, white, or mini) or use can use pure chopped chocolate. Sprinkle it on top. Then, pop back into the oven for a minute or two to help melt the chocolate.
Spread the melting chocolate all over top. And if you’re feeling jazzy, sprinkle it all with M&Ms. Or even sprinkles, toasted nuts, mini chocolate chips, etc etc. Or how about Reese’s pieces, like I do for Reese’s peanut butter white chocolate bark? There are no rules when it comes to garnishing saltine toffee!
The final step is chilling the toffee. That’s where everything comes together. The toffee solidifies and becomes this incredible, magical, buttery, sticky, chewy, peanut buttery, chocolate-covered, crunchiness that is unlike anything I’ve ever eaten before. Rave reviews every time. And it all starts with… crackers.
THIS IS CRAZINESS.
Soooo if you haven’t tried it in the past 3 years, now’s the time. It’s a holiday must. And by holiday, I really mean everyday. Especially Friday.
Crunchy, sweet, salty, and easy brown sugar buttery toffee with saltine crackers!
