Wanna Try a Magic Trick?

I have a magic trick to share with you!

Looks like a tray of saltines, huh?

I cannot turn water into wine...but I CAN turn crackers into candy!

And I will share my magic trick with you

First cover your Buttered, (or Pammed) cookie sheet, or sheet cake pan, with Saltines. Salt side up. Fill in any gaps with broken crackers.

Alternative; Use Cheese Its--really! These are fantatstic, get the big sized. Or you can use Club crackers too.

Once your pan is covered with a layer of crackers set it aside. Preheat your oven to 400. In a heavy bottomed sauce pan melt 2 sticks of butter, when melted add 1 packed cup of brown sugar. Blend together and bring to a bubbly boil. Cool for 3-4 minutes stirring now and then.

Pour hot mixture slowly over the sheet of crackers -----really, this will turn out!

Put in oven for 7 minutes. Make sure the liquid is all bubbly before you take it out. DO NOT touch the stuff----you will loose 9 layers of skin! (spoken from experience!)

Sprinkle one bag of chocolate chips over the top. You can use semi sweet, milk or my favorite is Hersheys Special Dark. Let set for 5- 10 minutes and then with a spatula spread the chips like you are frosting a cake. At this point you can top the candy with chopped nuts, crushed crackers, sprinkles....what ever you would like.

You can let this set out, but we generally put it in the freezer for 20 minutes. When it is cold you can pry up one corner and start breaking into chunks. Some people actually cut it, but that is far too sophisticated for me!

So your magic trick really will work..... You can turn crackers into candy

Christmas Cracker Candy

Saltines, (Club, or Big Cheese Its work Great too)

2 sticks of butter

1 cup of brown sugar packed

1 bag of chocolate chips

Nuts optional

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Line butter cookie sheet with crackers till covered completely. Melt butter in sauce pan, add brown sugar and stir till bubbly, cook 3 -5 minutes. Slowly pour over crackers, put in oven for about 7 minutes, making sure liquid is bubbly. Remove from oven and sprinkle chips ontop. Wait 5 minutes and smooth out the chocolate chips, like frosting a cake, you can add any nuts if you would like to at this time. Cool, and cut or crack into small pieces. Store in air tight container!!! My favorite version is Cheese its with Special Dark Chocolate Chips and chopped Cashews on top!