This Salty Churro Toffee Snack Mix is crazy addictive and insanely delicious! In less than 30 minutes, you’ll be snacking on sweet & salty cinnamon covered perfection!
Salty Churro Toffee Snack Mix
Run, don’t walk, to the kitchen right now and make this.
I feel like that’s all I have to say…
HA. Right. What would this blog be without a whole slew of unsolicited opeenionnnns?
Boring. That’s what it would be.
Anyhow, this snack mix is a riff on my Praline Crack recipe (which you NEED to make if you haven’t already). And between you and me, I should have called it Churro Crack, but the Crack police get on me when I use “crack” in a title. So I opted for the super wordy Salty Churro Toffee Snack Mix, as not to offend.
But between you and me, it’s Churro Crack.
How to Make the Best Snack Mix
It’s so super easy, and really impossible to mess up. Unless you burn it. So don’t do that.
You start with about 5 cups of Oyster Crackers. It’s basically an entire bag. Lay them out on a foil lined baking sheet…
Then boil together some butter and brown sugar and add a dash of cinnamon too. Coat your crackers with that mess…
Stir them to make sure all the crackers get coated evenly.
And bake it up! It will be bubbly and gorgeous.
While it’s in the oven make up a salty, cinnamon sugar…
And as soon as it comes out of the oven sprinkle it all over the top…
Let it cool and then break the crackers apart…
I’m telling you, this stuff is legit.
Make it now, thank me later.
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Salty Churro Toffee Snack Mix
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
- Category: Snack
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Salty Churro Toffee Snack Mix is crazy addictive and insanely delicious! In less than 30 minutes, you’ll be snacking on sweet & salty cinnamon covered perfection!
Ingredients
- 5 cups Oyster Crackers
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C. Line a baking sheet with foil. Set aside.
- Pour the oyster crackers in a large bowl and set aside.
- In a medium saucepan combine the butter and brown sugar. Stirring consistently bring the mixture to a boil and boil for 2 minutes. Remove the mixture from the heat and stir in 1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon and vanilla. Pour this immediately on top of the crackers. Use a rubber spatula, stir and coat the crackers evenly with the mixture. Spread the crackers evenly onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 – 15 minutes until bubbly all over.
- While the crackers are in the oven combine the granulated sugar, cinnamon and salt. Set this aside.
- When the crackers are done remove the pan from the oven and sprinkle immediately with the salty cinnamon sugar mixture evenly.
- Let the crackers cool and then break into pieces.
- Serve immediately or store airtight for up to a week.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 541
- Sugar: 28.2 g
- Sodium: 751.6 mg
- Fat: 33.9 g
- Carbohydrates: 56.6 g
- Protein: 3.9 g
- Cholesterol: 81.3 mg
Don’t get me wrong, this is a creative and fun recipe but for us it was sickeningly salty.
Between the butter & oyster crackers, there’s more than enough sodium. Next time we won’t add salt or perhaps we’ll find a substitute for crackers. We were thinkin animal crackers or chex!
Side note: I’m not really sure what you meant by “break the crackers” because in your final picture they look whole like ours. Thanks for sharing
Sometimes the crackers sticks together with the sugar mixture, so it means to break them into pieces. Sorry you thought it was too salty. “Salty” is in the title of the recipe 🙂
I live in Canada. No oyster crackers I could find not mini ritz so I used pretzel goldfish and omitted the salt. Mmmmmmm
Did the goldfish pretzel work? I also want to make this but no oyster crackers any other recommendations?
Happy Christmas!
Thank you for a great gift idea for busy nurses. I made this & packaged in small holiday print ziplocks. I browned the butter before combining with other ingredients, & added 1-1/2 c salted dry roasted peanuts. Yum
Do you think this could be made ahead and frozen or do you think it would get soggy?
You can absolutely make it ahead!
Does anyone know if I can use regular salt instead of Kosher? I don’t really want to buy that just for one recipe. I can’t wait to try this out, it sounds so good!
PS I think they would be wonderful on vanilla ice cream!!
I think you are correct!
OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, I just made this to take to work tomorrow, I hope I don’t eat it all before then. Oyster cracker crack! I did put the crackers in an 8 cup Pyrex measuring cup and mixed it up in that and I lined my pan with a non stick mat. Thanks for sharing, I think ????!
OMG……this is ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!!!! I made it this morning for a party I’m going to tomorrow……hope there’s some left…..I honestly can’t stop eating it!! Thanks soooooo much for sharing the recipe:-))))). I will DEFINITELY be making this again & again!!!
Do you think I could melt the butter and sugar in the microwave?? We are in a “transition” house right now until we move so I don’t have an oven and it’s killing me! Thanks!
Sure!
WOW these are unbelievably good. They turned out perfectly. The addition of the salt ,cut the sweetness. I also used Splenda brown sugar