Christmas Treats

I have a quick and easy recipe to share this morning. Christmas time is generally when people make all kinds of candy. My personal favorites are my grandmother's fudge, turtles and peanut butter balls. But some of that candy is time consuming to make. This recipe is not. I got this recipe from a dear, sweet lady that is a volunteer and board member of the Museum. Mrs. Claire is her name and you have to pronounce her name with a very heavy southern accent. She has the most wonderful accent and I just love her to pieces. So I want to share her recipe for what she calls "bark" and I have to admit, I have never tasted a saltine cracker this good! These treats remind me of toffee candy, which is a  favorite of mine. So here is the recipe:

Ingredients

• Saltine crackers
• 2 sticks of margarine
• 1 cup of sugar
• 6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate morsels
• 6 oz. peanut butter morsels

Directions

1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

2) Line a cookie sheet with tin foil. Layer the cookie sheet with saltine crackers.



3) Melt the margarine and cup of sugar on the stove. Bring to a boil and boil for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.

4) Poor the butter/sugar mixture evenly over the crackers.

5) Bake crackers at 400 for 7 minutes.
6) Mix together the chocolate and peanut butter chips.

7) Remove crackers from oven and immediately sprinkle with the chocolate and peanut butter chips.

8) Spread the chips over the crackers with a knife or a spoon.

9) Put in the refrigerator to cool.
10) Once everything has cooled and hardened, break crackers into pieces.

11) That's it!

Told you it was a quick and simple recipe. So make a batch this holiday season. You won't regret it!