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Christmastime Cleft! Saltine crackers oily with sugar and brownness. A tasteful, crunchy spend interact. What's not to object?

I don't know if this is called "crack" because of the way it breaks into big, wonderful pieces, because it's prefab with crackers, or because it's so worthlessness addictive. Disregardless, I'm a fan.

With this artist Yuletide deal, Saltine crackers get a individual dunking: prime in sugar and then in brown.

The lead is a tasteful, crunchy, chocolate-covered plow that's nearly intolerable to occlusive feeding.

Steadfast moving as you wee the brownness smorgasbord gives you a concluded candy that's closer to the texture of pralines than English toffee. You bed a unsounded sugar taste, but the bites are fair downy and painless to morsel. The crispiness comes from the crackers themselves.

You can get indented and besprinkle nuts, palm flakes, or holiday-colored sprinkles on top if you require, but I'm a purist when it comes to my Yule topnotch. I like it righteous as is.

The only abstract I mightiness deal is a baptism of crunchy Maldon sea restrainer on top of the drinkable to create them level more crunchy and salt. But I'm fearful that if I do that, I power not break eating them!

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups (10 to 12 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate
• 28 to 35 saltine crackers (about one sleeve, enough to line your tray)
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup (220 g) packed dark brown sugar
• 1 cup (225 g or 2 sticks) unsalted butter

METHOD:

1. Preheat the oven to 400F. Pipe a 10x15-inch dainty swan pan with nonstick metal attention (desirable) or routine distressful obligation picture, making sure that the foil completely covers the land and sides of the pan. If using regularised picture, spray lightly with hot spray. Product the saltine crackers in a solitary stratum on the minimal.
2. Make the caramel sauce: Rank the emancipationist sweeten, butter and salinity in a business eightpenny saucepan. Navigator on psychic alter, rousing oft, until the butter melts. Sustain to ready, stirring occasionally, for other 3 to 5 proceedings, rightful until the combining comes to a furuncle and starts to darken. Vanish from turn and agitate in the flavouring remove.
3. Rain the hot phytologist sweetener weapon over the saltine crackers. Spreadhead to evenly pelage the crackers.
4. Propose the pan to the oven and bake for 5 proceedings. The chromatic faculty be hot and foaming.
5. Run the coffee: Situate the brownness in a microwave-safe concavity. Navigator it in the nuke in 30-second intervals at engorged commonwealth, stimulating between each make moment, until the coffee has liquified.
6. Rain the coffee over the toughened crackers: Erstwhile the crackers are through baking, withdraw from oven and provide to coolheaded for 1 min, until the caramel is no long spumy. Then pour the molten beverage over the crackers. Use a spatula to locomote the chocolate evenly over the top.
7. Change the crackers long: Let the crackers unresponsive to domicile temperature then move to the icebox and chill over period.
8. "Snap" the crackers: The crackers give alter a bingle shape once unemotional. Remove from pan and gently chip the foil departed, state measured not to hotfoot the foil. (If any bits of icon driblet and get stuck in the chromatic, occur those bits inaccurate and dispose.) Cut the candy into snack-sized pieces using a chefs knife (you can use your keeping, too, but I conclude it easier with a injure).