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Broken pieces of gluten-free Christmas crack piled on parchment — toffee-topped crackers, some spread with chocolate, some with red and green sprinkles

Gluten-Free Christmas Crack

Gluten-Free Christmas Crack

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I'd genuinely never had Christmas Crack until it started showing up all over my TikTok feed, and once I saw it I had to try it myself. If you've never made it either — it's exactly what it sounds like. Toffee, chocolate, crackers, and you will not stop eating it.

Since I've been gluten-free for over ten years, saltines were never going to happen for me. So I built the whole thing on Schär gluten-free crackers instead, and it works just as well — same crunch, same toffee soaking into every hole, same problem where you eat way more than you meant to.

@cooklikeamother has a pretzel version of this floating around too, and if that sounds good to you, go check her out. I just don't do pretzels. Give me a cracker any day — and once you taste this, you'll understand exactly why it's called crack.

The Recipe

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Arrange the crackers on the sheet in a single layer, edge to edge, until the whole pan is covered.

  3. In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter and brown sugar together, stirring until completely combined.

  4. Let it bubble for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until it turns into a smooth toffee.

  5. Pour the hot toffee over the crackers and spread it out so every cracker gets coated.

  6. Bake for 5 minutes, and keep an eye on it — the toffee goes from golden to burnt fast.

  7. Pull the pan out while it's still hot.

  8. Sprinkle mini chocolate chips over part of the hot toffee — they'll melt from the residual heat — and spread with a spatula. I like to leave some crackers plain instead of covering the whole pan.

  9. While the chocolate is still soft, add Christmas sprinkles to a few pieces if you're feeling festive.

  10. Let everything cool completely, then break into pieces.

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