Recipe: Saltine Toffee Bars

**meredith** · 02-04-2008, 04:10 PM

I just found out I have to bring a dessert to a meeting for work tomorrow

, but I found this great looking recipe:

SALTINE TOFFEE BAR COOKIES

(I got this from cookierecipe.com!)

Makes 1 cookie sheet, you can break it into small or large pieces.

1 sleeve (from a 1 lb. box) saltines
1 cup butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 12-oz. package chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli double chocolate)
chopped nuts, optional

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Line a cookie sheet (the kind with sides) with a single layer of saltine crackers.

In a saucepan, combine butter & sugar, over high heat, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil and boil for 3 minutes (keep stirring!). Immediately pour over saltines and spread quickly to cover crackers.

Bake for about 5 minutes. Remove from oven and cover evenly with chocolate chips. Let sit for 5 minutes and spread chocolate; sprinkle on nuts if using. Let cool completely (we put it in the fridge for an hour to cool it faster), then break into pieces. Keep covered tightly!

**MirandaK** · 02-04-2008, 04:37 PM

One of my college roommates used to make this all the time...we called it cracker snack. I love this stuff!!!

**mom2matty** · 02-04-2008, 05:44 PM

We've always called it "Poor Man's Toffee"........whatever you call it, it is very good!

**luv-my-lexi** · 02-06-2008, 03:41 PM

I have had this before and it was yummy. Thanks for the recipe.

**gardenlady** · 02-06-2008, 06:53 PM

Thanks for the recipe. I'm going to try it.

**wildflowerpa** · 02-06-2008, 07:44 PM

It is good but I do have one question.....How do yuou get it out of the pan? Me is like cement. Tasty cement at that

**mom21ofeach** · 02-06-2008, 09:28 PM

I just had this at a Super Bowl Party on Sunday! They are sooooo good!

**mom2matty** · 02-06-2008, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by wildflowerpa

It is good but I do have one question.....How do yuou get it out of the pan? Me is like cement. Tasty cement at that

I line my cookie sheet with aluminum foil and I spray the foil with a cooking spray like Pam or whatever I happen to have. I put my pan in our chest freezer to cool it quickly. Once it is cool I pull the foil out of the pan and peel it off the back of the toffee and then I break the toffee into pieces!!

**meredith** · 02-07-2008, 11:41 AM

This is how I get mine out!

I line my cookie sheet with aluminum foil and I spray the foil with a cooking spray like Pam or whatever I happen to have. I put my pan in our chest freezer to cool it quickly. Once it is cool I pull the foil out of the pan and peel it off the back of the toffee and then I break the toffee into pieces!!

**Persimmon Lace** · 02-07-2008, 12:06 PM

This stuff is probably sinful! I make it several times a year and people are always amazed at how good it is!

**momishem** · 02-12-2008, 06:29 PM

OMG! I saw this recipe on here last week and I made it on Sunday afternoon. My family absolutely loved it. I took a piece of it to work on Monday with my lunch and today I had to bring the recipe and copy it for all of our staff. Everybody was shocked that it had saltines in it!

Thanks!

**cissylu** · 02-25-2008, 07:37 PM

all the raves about how good this is I`ll have to try this. Thank`s

**Michelle** · 02-25-2008, 08:03 PM

We call it "better than money toffee". I made it on New Year's Eve for the first time, and we all loved it. I did double the part to spread over the crackers though. There didn't seem to be enough in the recipe as it was written.