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Christmas Crack


Ingredients:
1 sleve club crackers
1 1/4 - cups butter, not margarine
1 1/4 - cup light brown sugar
1 - 12 oz package milk chocolate chips
1 - cup chopped pecans

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil.

Lay crackers out on sheet in one layer. In a medium sized saucepan melt the butter and the brown sugar.

Stir often and bring to a full rolling boil. After the mixture comes to a full rolling boil set your timer and boil the mixture for exactly 3 minutes.

Pour over the crackers and bake for 5 minutes.

Remove from oven and sprinkle with chocolate chips and wait until they are almost melted then spread the chocolate evenly all over all the saltines.

Sprinkle on the pecans all over the top as evenly as possible. Refrigerate for two hours and then break up into pieces and store in a air tight container.
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