TOFFEE BARS (A.K.A. REDNECK TOFFEE)
If your New Year’s resolution had anything to do with dieting or healthy eating, please be warned. This post is not going to help you keep that one. Just go on somewhere else and forget you ever came here. Seriously. Turn away now!Still here? Good…me, too.This is a recipe that I first saw at a fellow food blogger’s site, She Wears Many Hats. The author of that blog is Amy, a wonderful writer, photographer, cook and wearer of multiple hats. If you’ve never visited her blog, go straight on over there and look around. You’re gonna love it. Amy calls this recipe Redneck Toffee and that’s a pretty apt title. It’s not like any candy I’ve ever had, but let me tell you…this stuff is good! So good it’s kind of addicting. Amy calls it “sin on a cracker” and she’s got that right. I made a batch of it for Christmas and it was the hit of the season. Since I was so busy in December, I just didn’t have time to take photos so I made up a new batch yesterday specifically for posting on the blog. BeeBop and I ate one piece each and I sent every bit of the rest with him to work this morning. Reports are that it was a hit there, too.Here’s what you’re going to need to make your very own batch of sinful Redneck Toffee Bars.
Ingredients
- 35 saltine crackers
- ½ cup 1 stick butter
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- 8 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped toasted pecans
Instructions
TO TOAST PECANS:
- Place pecans in a small baking pan in a 350 degree oven. Cook for 5 minutes or until nuts are toasted.
FOR THE TOFFEE:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Place the crackers in a single layer in a small baking pan.
- Cook brown sugar and butter in a saucepan over medium-high heat until butter is completely melted and mixture comes to a rapid boil.
- Pour over crackers and spread out with a wooden spoon or brush making sure to cover all the way to the edges of the crackers.
- Bake 5 minutes or until topping is golden brown.
- Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with chocolate chips.
- Turn the oven off and place the pan back in the hot oven for 1 minute to soften the chocolate chips.
- Remove from oven and spread chocolate evenly over the crackers.
- Sprinkle with nuts.
- Allow the mixture to cool completely until the chocolate has re-solidified. Break into pieces.
