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Cheap Feast: Yummy Holiday Cookie Starts With Cracker

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JANINE DORSEY

jdorsey@tbo.com

Published: December 12, 2008

TAMPA - About this time of year, my daughters usually get the urge to do some baking for family and friends.

I get the urge to NOT have another holiday-related task while facing an already strapped budget.

This cookie recipe is the one exception. In the spirit of our TBO.com holiday foods database, "Feast On The Cheap," it meets all the criteria for the three of us.

A) It is delicious

B) It is so simple they can make it with little supervision.

C) We have the ingredients on hand; no special trip to the store for almond extract or candied cherries.

D) Cleanup is easy because you don't have flour-covered countertops or a pile of dirty cookie cutters, and,

E) Boy, is it cheap.

I made a batch the night my daughter's posse came for a sleepover. It was gone in under 15 minutes, with fingertips rounding up stray crumbs from the platter.

The cost: $3.50 per batch. You can make two batches (two sleeves of crackers) and use up all the butter, chips and sugar, for $6.76.

Cracker Candy

Ingredients (I used a store brand):

Saltines $1.29 for 16 oz.

Choc chips $1.99 for 12 oz.

Light brown sugar 79 cents for 16 oz.

Butter $2.69 for 16 oz.

Recipe:

Saltine crackers, 1 sleeve

2 sticks butter

1 cup light brown sugar

6 oz. chocolate chips

Line a brownie pan with aluminum foil and spray with anti-stick cooking spray. Line the foil with saltine crackers, flat and side by side.

On the stove, cook butter and sugar til frothy.

Pour mixture over the saltines and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

Sprinkle chocolate chips on top and let sit for 1-2 minutes until melted.

Spread melted chips across crackers.

Add holiday-themed sprinkles to jazz it up, if you like.

Cool to room temperature and place in refrigerator.

Remove after one hour; just pull the foil out of pan.

Break into pieces.

Producer Janine Dorsey can be reached at (813) 259-8015

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