Description
Sweet Easter crack candy delivers a delightful sugar rush perfect for spring celebrations. Chocolate, graham crackers, and festive sprinkles create an irresistible treat you’ll want to share with friends and family.
Ingredients
Scale
Main Ingredients:
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 cup butter (226 grams)
- 12 ounces (340 grams) white candy melts
Base Ingredient:
- Saltine crackers
Garnish/Topping Ingredients:
(none specified in original recipe)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a 9×13-inch baking pan with aluminum foil, ensuring complete coverage. Arrange a single layer of saltine crackers across the entire pan bottom, creating a uniform base.
- In a large saucepan, combine butter and brown sugar. Heat the mixture, stirring constantly until it reaches a vigorous boil. Maintain the boil for exactly 3 minutes, watching carefully to prevent burning.
- Carefully pour the molten butter-sugar mixture over the cracker layer, ensuring complete and even coverage. Transfer the pan to the preheated oven and bake for 7 minutes until the toffee becomes bubbling and golden.
- Immediately remove the pan from the oven. Distribute white candy melts evenly across the hot toffee surface. Allow the residual heat to naturally melt the candy melts, then use a spatula to spread them smoothly like a delicate frosting.
- While the chocolate remains soft, generously scatter colorful Easter-themed sprinkles or pastel candies across the surface. Place the pan in the refrigerator to rapidly set and solidify the candy. Once completely cooled, break into irregular, rustic pieces for serving.
Notes
- Line the pan perfectly by ensuring foil edges cover sides completely to prevent sticking and easy removal.
- Use unsalted butter for better control of sweetness and prevent over-salting from crackers and added salt.
- Maintain consistent stirring during boiling to prevent sugar from burning and create smooth, even toffee texture.
- Test candy’s doneness by checking color transformation to deep amber and watching for slight thickening during boiling process.
- For gluten-free version, replace saltine crackers with gluten-free alternatives like rice crackers or gluten-free graham crackers.
- Keep refrigeration time consistent around 30-45 minutes to achieve ideal snap and crisp texture when breaking pieces.
- Experiment with different candy melt flavors like milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or seasonal colored melts for variety.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 218
- Sugar: 19 g
- Sodium: 188 mg
- Fat: 12 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 27 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg