Saltine bark
July 3rd, 2010
Camouflage
Congratulations to my dear sister Lucy, who graduated from college this May! I had this Saltine bark at her graduation party and decided I had to try making it myself. So she gave me the recipe and it’s delicious!
Ingredients list:
- About 1 (maybe a little more) sleeve of Saltine crackers
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 1 11 oz. package of semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 to 1 cup of walnuts (I substituted hazelnuts)
A Saltine platoon
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350
- Cover a cookie sheet with foil. Line up the saltine crackers on the sheet to completely cover it. It should take 1 sleeve of crackers or a little more.
- Mix the brown sugar and butter and boil/heat it for about 3 minutes (microwave or stovetop).
- Pour mix over saltines.
- Bake 7 minutes.
- Remove tray from oven and cover with chocolate chips. Wait for them to melt and then spread the chocolate evenly over the crackers. Sprinkle the nuts on top.
- Put in freezer to cool.
Yummy
Basically, this is a layer of saltines, a layer of caramelized sugar/butter, a layer of chocolate and a layer of nuts. Hard to go wrong with that! The only problem I had is my caramel layer is a bit too chewy. I’m not sure how I could have fixed that – maybe bake it less time? Anyways, I think it’s worth it. Picking caramel out of your teeth is a small price to pay for something this delicious.
OMG, I wish I didn’t know what was in them, no wonder I had to eat so many! My mouth is watering……Perhaps the caramel is too chewy because of the amount of time you cooked the butter and sugar. Maybe it’s like making candy, you need a candy thermometer to make sure it’s the right temp to be crunchy…?