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Soda Cracker Toffee | Recipe

December 23, 2009 By Laura 11 Comments

This recipe is one that came to mind, in a memory from years ago.  I had no idea what it was called though, so I googled the ingredients to figure it out.
I guess it’s called  Soda Cracker Toffee.

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Which brings to mind a pressing question for me:  Does ANYONE actually say ‘soda crackers’ anymore?  I can’t imagine.  So if you don’t mind, while I share this recipe, I’m just going to refer to this type of crackers as ‘saltines’.  After all, I’m just a kid.

But before I get to that, I wanted to share the memories that this treat brought to mind.  I remember the  first time I ever tried it.  I was working as a teller in a bank.  (Do I hear people snickering?  lol.  Yes, I realize, for anyone who knows me at all, it is comical that I ever worked in a bank.  But I did. For like 3 or 4 years!  You may wonder how I pulled that off.  Well, that’s easy.  I was a struggling artist at the time, living at home with my parents.  A very, very good friend of my family’s (still today), was the president of the district of that bank, or something like that.  He encouraged me to apply for a job at that bank.  As much as I questioned him that they would ever hire me, he assured me all would be fine.  ; )  I worked there for 2 years, and even was successfully transferred to the south shore when I got married.  Until I couldn’t take it anymore…being like, and dressing like, someone I was so NOT.  So then I quit, and became a married, struggling artist, in my first own home.

But in that last year, there was a girl that worked at my branch for a few months.  There are 3 things I remember about her:

1) She was very bubbly, and always smiling.

2) She once turned to me after I said something or other, (I swear, I forget what..) and said, “You know, you are soooooo…..ABRASIVE!”  Michael and I have laughed about that for YEARS since.  Well, except I always forget the word she used, and he reminds me. And THEN we laugh again.  But anyway, it’s not the truth. She was very sensitive, and just didn’t get my humor.

3)   One day she brought in this recipe.
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Now…..if you have a sweet tooth, THIS recipe is for YOU.  It’s junk food, at it’s best.   So I hear.  I’m not really into stuff this sweet, but I know others who are LOVING it.  ; )

It is SOOOO Easy to make. And only 4 ingredients.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe Participating Ingredients:  a sleeve of SALTINES, 1 cup of light brown sugar, a 12 oz bag of chocolate chips, & 1 cup of butter. (2 sticks.  Holy…)

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-1 Spread a whole sleeve of the crackers as a single layer,  on a 10×15 jelly roll pan, or, if you don’t have one of those (like us), we used a 17 1/4 x 11 x 1 inch cookie sheet, which should be covered with tin foil first.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-2 I took this photo just for fun. (So take a break. ; )

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-3 In a saucepan, melt down the 2 sticks of butter and 1 cup of brown sugar.

This would be a good time to preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-4 Bring to a boil, and while stirring frequently, boil for 4-5 minutes.

When the time is up, I saw lots of  ‘pockets’ of butter or brown sugar, so I used the back of the spoon to press them out against the side of the pan, and mix some more, until it looked truly combined.  Took a minute is all.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-5 So then you have warm toffee, and it should look more like this.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-6 Pour as evenly as you can over all of the crackers.  You need to work some quickly because the toffee will start setting if it cools too much. Once it is all poured, quickly spread it out more evenly over the crackers.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-7 Once it is spread out, put it in your pre-heated oven and bake for 5 minutes.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-8 Remove pan from oven, and then turn off the oven.

Quickly spread the entire bag of chocolate chips all over the toffee-covered Saltines.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-9 Then put the pan back in the oven for 4-5 minutes, which should still be pretty hot.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-10 (In my attempt to see if the chips were indeed melt-y enough, I grabbed the spatula off the counter, which got caught on a pair of kitchen scissors, sending them flying INTO the oven, and falling to the bottom.
Metal tongs were necessary to remove the scissors, which were now on fire.  But you can skip that whole step! : )

When the chips look melt-y enough, remove the pan from the oven again, and spread the chocolate more evenly over the cracker base.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-11 Now place the pan in your refrigerator, to speed up the process of chilling and setting the chocolate.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-12 When it is set, remove from fridge.

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-13 And cut into 1 inch squares with a pizza cutter.  (You can actually do this yourself!!  Michael just did it for me, because I’m weak, and have a life-long broken finger.) (I know what you are thinking by now….Yes, I am accident-prone.)

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-16 You can store it all in an air-tight container.

This treat is really a nice little gift, or a sweet addition to your own Christmas or New years festive celebration!

soda-cracker-toffee-recipe-14 Enjoy!!

(And don’t forget to brush your teeth after!  Seriously.)

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Political Cookies

November 22, 2009 By Laura 3 Comments

We have a de-LICIOUS roll recipe coming right up, submitted by a regular and loved blog reader, Paula.  But first, we just wanted to share with you some of our oldest daughter, {A}’s,  creative cookies she made last week.  (She is an ambitious baker these days, if you don’t know.)

{A} has a very strong interest in the Kennedy Family, and has as of late, been studying their family history in great depth.  That’s  not to say she is a fan of all of them. ; )  But, she does like who Robert F. Kennedy was.  So much so, that she made sugar cookies for his birthday on Friday, November 20th.   She thought it was a great excuse to practice her piping skills.

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There were many duplicates of these cookies above, so this is just a sample of each design.  She even had more detailed pre-sketches on paper, but realized they would be really hard to pipe.  I think they came out really cute though.  I also think it’s cute that she made these. lol

On a side note, I just wanted to mention that we’ll be doing a little renovation on the Home Page (just a little one).  So if you notice things are out of sorts at any point, that’s why. : )

And that, I believe, was my shortest post, ever.  I deserve a cookie, don’t you think?

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Filed Under: Baking, Fun Food, Recipes, Treats Tagged With: creative-cookies, political cookies, Robert-F-Kennedy-cookies

The Triplets’ Birthday Cake Choices

September 8, 2009 By Laura 3 Comments

After 7 years, it finally happened! The triplets wanted different kinds of birthday cake.

As I’ve mentioned before, we all choose what we want for our birthday cakes in our family.  Up until this year, we’ve really lucked out in that, {J, O & S} have always just agreed on the same kind of cake.  So this year was a ‘first’.  They had all spent their own bouts of time flipping through their big sister’s cook books, and it seems 2 of them had seen something they wanted, and they knew exactly on which page, in which book, it was.

So this post isn’t directional recipes, per say, but a few cute ideas you may like to use for your kids, or yourself, sometime!  Good news: Birthdays are not a requirement!  An ordinary Sunday, the kickoff of a school vacation, or house cleaning being all done, are all good enough reasons for a treat!  Feel free to come up with your own reasons.  It’s really not hard to do when you’re in the mood for a treat!

triplets' birthday cakes

Look how happy they are! This makes the extra hours in the kitchen, worth it.

tripets' birthday cake

{J} chose to have a ‘Mice Cream’.

In a graham cracker mini-pie crust, add a big scoop of your favorite ice cream.  (In other words, choose your mouse color. : )

Eyes & Nose =  Chocolate Chips

Whiskers = Large sprinkles

Ears = Keebler Grasshopper Cookies

Tail = We wanted red licorice string rope. But we could not find any. So, we picked up some of this Extreme Sweetly-Sour Belts, that we cut for a thin tail.  It was wicked gross, and we threw it out as soon as the tail served it’s purpose. : )

Cute, huh?

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triplets' birthday cake

{O} chose a Cupcake Cone

With some yellow cake batter from {S}’s, we filled the cone up more than 2/3 full, and baked in 350 degree oven for 25-28 minutes. Cool, frost, sprinkle, eat. : )  We made 7.

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{S} wanted a 7 Cake!

Oh yeah, he’s sharin’!

We just baked an ordinary marble cake in a square cake pan, and cool.  Remove from the pan, cut into a 7, frost and sprinkle.

We used to rarely have sweets around here.  But since {A} loves baking so much, and with so many birthdays, holidays and blessings, we’re finding more reasons to celebrate with a treat than we used to!  Thankfully, they are generously spaced with many healthy balanced diet meals around the table together.

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Filed Under: Baking, Celebrations, Desserts, Recipes, The Big Picture, Traditions, Treats Tagged With: birthday-number-cake, Catholic-family-blogs, kids-birthday-cake-ideas, mice cream, triplet-birthday-cakes, triplets

Just S’more Photos

July 18, 2009 By Laura 2 Comments

I won’t insult you with a s’mores recipe post!

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I won’t insult you with a recipe, or a ‘How to Make S’mores’ post.

I’ll just share s’more photos!

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Don’t let the summer pass you by, without building a campfire some perfect summer night, and indulging yourself in this campfire-side treat, of s’mores!

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A simple Summer Treat

July 12, 2009 By Laura 4 Comments

    We threw together this wonderful and simple summer treat on the afternoon of {A}’s birthday, and called it a  Birthday Parfait.

strawberries and blueberries

It couldn’t be any easier to make:

1) Rinse some strawberries and blueberries in the sink.

(Next year we’ll have enough strawberries of our own from our garden, to not have to use store-bought, but these were really good berries, anyway! Big, juicy, and sweet.)

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strawberries

2) De-stem and slice the strawberries.

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blueberries

3)  Go through the blueberries real quick , just to make sure there are no smooshy ones, : ) , and also take off any tiny stems still on.

4)  Get out your can of Redi-Whip.

5) In clear cups, layer strawberries, whip cream, blueberries, and more whip cream on the top.

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It was just the ‘light-little-something’ we needed that day, to hold us over until dinner.

It’s also perfect to serve on the 4th of July weekend, or Memorial Day weekend, being red, white and blue.

We and the kids loved it so much, we had it again a couple of days later.  But that time, we sprinkled some Grape Nuts cereal on top, and we loved it even more.

Simple. Pretty. Tasty.

And simply pretty tasty.

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