My Life in Evolution: Game Night Ravenous Hordes Baking #1

Everyone Monday evening our house is over run by ravenous gamers. As part of standard fair for Mondays we used to do just pizza but have branched out a bit. The nice thing about gamers is that they will devour almost anything placed in front of them. There are some up sides and some down sides to this. This means I can make something that I should eat the whole tray, but almost anything is my house seems to be fair game. I have used this to my advantage on many occasions, such as a pan or two of lemon bars that got devoured withing minutes.

Tonights delicious treat is one that I tried a few years ago at our New Year's Whistler trip, Michael made brickle. I had attempted it a couple of years ago and it didn't turn out well, which is a surprise since it seems rather simple to make.

I tried a different method of making it and this batch turned out really well.

Brickle

48-60 Saltines Crackers (such as premium plus)
1 cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 bag of Chocolate Chips (I like dark chocolate)

-Preheat oven to 350 degree

-Line cookie sheet with heavy aluminum foil.

-Lay the crackers out, try to get them to fit fairly snuggly. Break crackers to fit, so that they crackers go edge to edge.

-In a saucepan, melt butter and sugar. Stir often. Bring it to the a boil, remove from heat and add the vanilla extract.

Butter and sugar melting but yet to come to a boil.

It has come to the boil and the vanilla is added, the vanilla will cause it to bubble up a bit.

-Pour butter sugar mixture over the crackers and place in the oven for 7-8 minutes.

Butter mixture is poured over and spread out over all the crackers.

-Remove from the oven and scatter the chocolate chips all over the top and place back at the oven for another 2 minutes. Remove from the oven and using a rubber spatula spread the melted chocolate all over the top.