My great grandmother just passed in August at the age of 90, and this is the first year for the holidays I'm not having her Ritz cracker pie crust. She never wrote down how she makes it and no recipes I've found for it can even begin to compare to hers. I make a pie at least once a week, so I've been trying to recreate the recipe for quite a few weeks now until I finally gave up. This video reminded me to keep trying, though. ♡
I think it's very similar to making a graham cracker crust, just substituting crushed ritz crackers for the graham. The rest is the same, melted butter & sugar.
Another easy candy with Ritz that we made for the holidays is take two Ritz and make a cracker sandwich with a thin layer of creamy Peanut Butter (standard American peanut butter, not the all natural, unsweetened kind, if that's all you have, add a little powdered sugar) and then just dip it in melted chocolate and put in the fridge to harden. They're so addictive and really fast, especially if you pipe the peanut butter on with a plastic bag with the corner cut off.
if you don't want to go through all that hard work just buy the already made peanut butter crackers and just cover them in chocolate they work just as good and just a few steps less
This is my new favorite Christmas candy. I love it dipped in White chocolate. So good. And add a half a pecan on top for decoration and an additional treat.
@@Kiddly3000 I don't care for the peanut butter that's in those, because it's a bit dryer so they hold up in shipping, but if that's what you prefer, they would be very fast.
When we made them with saltines when I was living at home with my mother, we called them "heartburn candy". They work really well with matzo for pesach, too!
Awww this just feels extra wholesome, even compared to normal Emmy content. I love recipes that take something simple and make something special and sentimental out of it.
haha - I was looking to see if anyone else brought up the Ritz mock apple pie! I remember it well. I also remember my Grandfather moaning about it being more expensive to make than apple pie (they had their own apple trees, so free fruit). Great memories...and you really couldn't tell what the heck that pie was made out of if you didn't know and it really was amazing....because Nanna made it :D Merry Christmas
My mom makes almost the exact same thing (the Ritz cracker bark) every year for Passover, except she lines the baking sheet with matzoh instead of Ritz crackers 😊 We usually do some with toffee on top and some without. It's so easy to customize and SO GOOD.
@@QueenCityHistory saltines used this way were called Christmas crack when I was a kid. My friend's mom always made it. I will have to try it with matzo.
@@QueenCityHistory I'm sorry you can't find matzoh where you live. That's disappointing, but makes sense being in the bible belt 😔 I'm sure it's just as good with saltines though! I've seen recipes that call for using those!
I occasionally do Ritz Cracker Pizza Snacks. A plate of Ritz, a bit of pizza sauce, a slice of pepperoni, some oregano and a final dash of grated parmesan cheese. Yummy!
My grandma did this recipe with saltines, but she also did other candied things like chocolate-dipped Ritz-PB sandwiches. She'd always put a little bit of red or green sanding sugar for the holidays too.
I love this! I make these amazing treats called PMS cookies with ritz for my daughter and I. Its 2 ritz sandwiching peanut butter and a little marshmallow fluff. Then you dip the cookie into melted chocolate and sprinkle a small amt of sea salt on top. They're so good!
I made both of these but I had a wave of inspiration for the bark since I didn't have a very big tin to do it in. I blitzed the Ritz similar to the other recipe and mixed it with butter and pushed it into the tin like a cheesecake base. It has created a cross between a millionaire shortbread/daim bar and it's fabulous 🙂 thanks for the ideas, I would never have thought of ritz crackers being used in a dessert like this!
I've enjoyed making the toffee bars in the past with Graham crackers even adding a drizzle of melted white chocolate chips. My Sister suggested this year to buy Christmas sprinkles and crushed peppermint to decorate them! Very cute. The plain bars sound interesting to try, almost like rice crispy treats. I just made a batch for my Grandson's 20th birthday ...I sprinkled them with crushed toffee bits! Love your enthusiasm Dear!
I loved hearing you reminisce about holiday traditions and the different foods that welcomed family and friends. Keeping these traditions and memories alive is at the very root of “family."
I’ve made the second candy using saltine crackers instead of Ritz. It tastes a lot like Almond Rocca even without the addition of almonds. It’s always a hit!
The first basically swapped Ritz Crackers for the Puffed Rice in Rice Crispy Treats. The basic recipe is marshmallows, butter, and a filler. Emmy has already done a video on Ritz Mock Apple Pie. Another favorite from my youth.
I love those Ritz candies. Every time I take them somewhere everyone wants the recipe. So simple and so good. I love to make Benedictine spread for any kind of crackers.
I make a recipe with ritz every year. Take 2 ritz crackers and spread one cracker with peanut butter and the other with marshmallow fluff. Put together like a sandwich and dip in melted chocolate. Let them set up/dry and you won’t be able to stop eating them 😋
Funny you say that the chocolate - toffee - cracker dessert reminds you of the holidays. In our family we have something similar at Passover. It has matzoh on the bottom in place of the Ritz. Rabbi Gary was the maker of that treat. And then there's *latkes* for Chanukah! I like them with sour cream, but applesauce is also traditional. I have SO many recipes that use *Ritz* crackers. One of my favorites is Pineapple Cheddar Casserole. It great when it's cooler outside.
I love that! 😋 My mom made it once and I've been wanting to taste it again. This is the perfect time of year to make that. Thank you for reminding me of it.
i love ritz because it encourages you to share with whoever is nearby. it really is like the commercials lol. ritz are how i coax my old dog to come with me when hes stubborn and tired.
I buy so many packages of Ritz during the holidays that I feel like maybe I should own stock in the company. 😅 I use them in my escalloped corn, in three different candies, in two different jello salads/jello molds, in my cheese patties and we use them just as crackers for our olive and pickle trays, our cheeseboards and all of our dips. They truly are a delicious and versatile ingredient that also tastes great just out of the package. *The real bonus with Ritz is that they are lacto-ova vegetarian safe. They weren’t years ago and my family always had to use a substitute for the Ritz crackers. But since nothing beats that flaky, buttery little disc of loveliness… it’s nice that we can now use them for our many vegetarian dishes* ✌🏻💕😃
Make sure you watch your marshmallows while they're in the microwave! Not because they're likely to burn or anything, just because it's fun to watch 'em poof up hehe I live in Australia and most of the marshmallows you get here come in packages of white vanilla and pink strawberry flavoured marshmallows. Most people I know like the strawberry ones, but I don't and it annoys me a little that they only come in mixed bags, because the white ones end up tasting like strawberry too. Although I do rather like the strawberry ones when you drop one of each in a mug of hot chocolate.
I absolutely love Ritz. My favorite desert with the crackers is to take melted dark chocolate and pour it over them completely covering just one side, then let it harden in the fridge. They are simple and they are like crunchy, salty, and sweet! Please try it sometime! :D
Date Nut Cookies, aka Something On A Ritz: Chopped dates, chopped pecans and a can of sweetened condensed milk, cooked in a saucepan over medium low heat for 5 minutes or until thick and sticky. Spread on a Ritz cracker, chill overnight. Mix powdered sugar and cream cheese to create a frosting. Top cookies with frosting before serving.
Wow you reminded me of something I used to do when I was a kid. I used to make Ritz smores in the microwave. 2 crackers, 3 small marshmallows (or 1 med), and a piece of a Hershey bar. Everyone thought I was crazy till they tasted it!
I love mixing crushed Ritz crackers with a can of Sweetened Condensed Milk and a pack of Skor bits, spread on a cookie sheet and cooked for 10 minutes in the oven. Once cool, top with vanilla icing. Sooo good.
Hey Emmy. They both look yummy. I love Ritz Crackers with dip (esp. Spinach Artichoke), cheese, Hummus, Beef Summer Sausage and plain. The caramel and chocolate covered crackers are similar to what I grew up with, but it uses Saltine Crackers. We call it Georgia Crack, but some call it Xmas Crack. Very yummy and delicious. I'll have to try it with Ritz.
Such a wonderful host. Never been one for cooking shows but Emmy, you get me interested every time. I love the way you make it exciting to try. Easy to follow and understand. Such a joy to watch.... definitely going to surprise the kids this coming festive season with these delightful beauties. Good ol' Ritz crackers. Can always find a box of 'em about the pantry.... 👍🏼👍🏼😁😘
I'm with you Emmy. I love spinach dip. I also THOROUGHLY enjoy Lipton soup mix onion dip. Those dips make chips and pretzels so much better during the holidays. Definitely worth the bad breath aftermath😂😂!
My family makes the bark every year, but we always called it Christmas crack! Because you crack it! we usually use saltines, but one year my mom made it with pretzel twists and it was good as well!
Yum! I love the toffee chocolate Ritz; gotta make some of those! The marshmallow treats using crushed Ritz is definitely different! Never occurred to me to use anything other than a breakfast cereal...and I've used several!
We made the one with whole crackers using saltine crackers. We just sprinkled the sugar on top afterwards pouring the butter on. We did cook it in the oven the same as you until the sugar melted.
A really cute thanksgiving thing I made as a kid...vanilla wafers, chocolate covered cherries, and candy corn. you make them into turkeys. you can use chocolate or icing to glue it together.
I learned an easy snack from someone that uses Ritz and it tastes exactly like those little debbie's Nutty Buddy bars. You just take 2 or 3 Ritz, put peanut butter between each one and then cover the cracker sandwich with chocolate. It's so good!
Nice video! I've made the toffee-type cracker candy with the chocolate topping but I used saltines. So good, because of the sweet and salty crunch it's really hard to stop eating them. I'd like to try the Ritz version.
I make copycat Thin Mints with Ritz! Melt candy bark and add a few drops of peppermint oil (food grade/for candy making) and dip the crackers! Easy as that :)
That cracker toffee recipe is so much better with soda crackers, they are a great texture with the toffee and the perfect shape for lining a pan. They are also much cheaper than Ritz making this a very inexpensive recipe, traditionally. I know it was sponsored but Ritz price themselves like a high end cracker here so this felt like a bit of a waste if the texture and buttery notes of the cracker aren't actually going to come through in the recipe. Along with the saltine toffee, my family always makes a square using coarsely crushed Ritz crackers along with skor bits (like chocolate chips but toffee flavored) and sweetened condensed milk, baked, and topped with buttercream. It's my favourite holiday square!
Emmy, great timing, My mom just picked up a package of fermented tea leaves! (: I’ve only ever had it as a salad topper so far. Need to get myself some ritz
My grandma used to make peanut butter sandwich crackers with these and then coat them in either regular or white chocolate at Christmas time. Such a wonderful memory.
I used to make a similar recipe to the second one. But instead of ritz crackers we do the same caramel and choc application but on top of matzoh for passover. It is one of the most popular passover desserts when I was growing up. I’ve neverr had it with ritz, but I bet it is good.
The 2nd recipe for cracker candy / bark is an old Appalachian Recipe that used Ritz instead of Saltine Crackers. It's a very old recipe that my great grandmother made in the early 1980's.
Mmmm! 😋 We used to call that Christmas Crack, but we made it with a different cracker (cough-Club-cough) that was rectangular shaped, so no gaps… not that it really matters, all recipes of that delightful candy disappear quickly! 😂. Never had the marshmallow one though! Looks similar to Rice Crispy treats, only more refined. 🤤
@@rvrotter1 - Yes! In fact, that may be what I was thinking of…but it’s been so long long, I forgot what cracker it was! I’ll have to rectify that by making some soon, lol! Saltines are square, so I was close… sort of. ☺️
We melt chocolate, add peppermint extract, dip ritz crackers, and make our own chocolate mint treats. We have a treat night and make loads of things too.
I have made the second kind of candy that you did using saltine crackers. I haven’t made them in a while, but I think the recipe called for melting the chocolate chips with the butter and brown sugar. I will have to check back and make sure. It may have been done exactly the same way you did yours. I really want to make the first kind that you did because it sounds like a lot of fun.
This inspired an emergency run to the store; love Ritz crackers and love the salty/sweet combination. I would have never thought of this recipe but I am super excited to make it! ❤
Emmy, Being very conscious of dental hygiene, and even though, I too love spinach dip, I never serve it at parties. My mom wanted it on the menu for my wedding reception and I said, "Heaven's no! The pictures and everyone smiling with spinach in their teeth! I offered to compromise by changing our little remembrance gifts to our guests to little dental kits (dental floss, travel toothbrush & small toothpaste) instead, but she didn't go along with that idea. So, in the end, there were clean teeth 😁 and wide smiles for pics and no need for 🪥ing because spinach was nixed. I, of course, never go anywhere without dental floss and always check my teeth after eating. My sister teases me mercilessly about my "dental floss habit," generally with something stuck between her teeth! Do you think I tell her about it? Thanks as always for your wonderful videos!
That marshmallow thing sounds good. And so cheap and easy to make, I think I'll actually try it! Wonder if adding a touch of peanut butter instead of vanilla would change the consistency way too much.
I used to go into these cooking frenzies and make more than 20 different dishes on holidays. One year I had lost weight so wasn’t eating too much and when certain things were basically left untouched I realized I was the one who’d been hitting about five or six things all by myself haha… I’ve kept my holiday menu very downsized and it’s just fine for us. But I think we might be seeing some Ritz Cracker candy for the first time this Christmas. 🤷🏻♀️
The second one is almost identical to a recipe my family always makes for Passover, except we use matzah (the chocolate and toffee is the only way to make that wretched flavorless cardboard be edible). My mom usually adds nuts, sugar pearls, and/or coarse salt, which I guess the Ritz crackers take care of to an extent here. We always call it Matzah Crack and everybody always spends all year looking forward to it. Plus it's a good way to use up leftover matzah, because there's no way in hell we're eating it otherwise 😊
OK this is kind of trippy, because I was just looking for different things to do with a box of Ritz crackers that I bought last week! I will try both of these! Thank you as always.
Parchment paper to the rescue!🧼 I usually try to guess what the phrase is going to be before the end. I was so sure this one was going to be "Puttin' on the Ritz!"
Omg, SPINACH DIP 🤍 - that's definitely the most holiday memory dip for me as well. We make it every year, and serve it in a pumpernickel bread bowl, and usually use the chunks from hollowing it out as our vessel. But Ritz too, absolutely yes 🥰
Oh my! My grandmother and I used to make those bars with graham crackers. We would eat the pan together over the weekend. It was fantastic👌I'm going to need to make those soon.... tonight😂
Another favorite dip using those crackers is jalapeño jam and cream cheese! Just make the jam haw you usually make it but put tiny bits of jalapeños in it and whirl the jam in whipped cream cheese and dip with ritz crackers! Thanks for the video 👍🙏🏼
the pretzel one are wonderful for dipped chocolate made from easter chocolate(there's just something about E chocolate thats just different than Hershey's)
Wow, you seem to have brought back a lot of wonderful memories for so many. I never heard of this but it sounds like its pretty darn good ! Easy to! I think this one is a go !
I think both of these recipes would taste better with graham crackers, but that's just my opinion. I recognize and respect that you had to provide something highlighting the sponsorship's product. I make pecan pie bark/candy by making the last recipe with graham crackers and adding pecans, and the chocolate is optional. My family's holiday treat with ritz is peanut butter mixed with a bit of powdered sugar to thicken to the right consistency, sandwiched between two crackers, and dipped in white chocolate. If you sprinkle it with gold or silver colored sugar or nonpareils it makes it look extra festive, and classier, while still being extremely affordable.
My great grandmother just passed in August at the age of 90, and this is the first year for the holidays I'm not having her Ritz cracker pie crust. She never wrote down how she makes it and no recipes I've found for it can even begin to compare to hers. I make a pie at least once a week, so I've been trying to recreate the recipe for quite a few weeks now until I finally gave up. This video reminded me to keep trying, though. ♡
If anyone can replicate, its Emmy
I think it's very similar to making a graham cracker crust, just substituting crushed ritz crackers for the graham. The rest is the same, melted butter & sugar.
Have you tried lard or margarine instead of butter? Lard especially makes a big difference.
@@helpfulnatural Since Ritz are a bit more oily, you might need to adjust the ratios slightly.
Have you tried Crisco or lard in the recipe? My grandma used Crisco in all her pie recipes
Another easy candy with Ritz that we made for the holidays is take two Ritz and make a cracker sandwich with a thin layer of creamy Peanut Butter (standard American peanut butter, not the all natural, unsweetened kind, if that's all you have, add a little powdered sugar) and then just dip it in melted chocolate and put in the fridge to harden. They're so addictive and really fast, especially if you pipe the peanut butter on with a plastic bag with the corner cut off.
Sounds like a classic combination. 🥜🍫
if you don't want to go through all that hard work just buy the already made peanut butter crackers and just cover them in chocolate they work just as good and just a few steps less
This is my new favorite Christmas candy. I love it dipped in White chocolate. So good. And add a half a pecan on top for decoration and an additional treat.
@@Kiddly3000 I don't care for the peanut butter that's in those, because it's a bit dryer so they hold up in shipping, but if that's what you prefer, they would be very fast.
My Brother in Law made these, and used White Chocolate. Called them "Fat Pills" they were awesome!
I've done recipe #2 a few times, but with saltines and sprinkled the top with crushed toasted almonds and a few flakes of fleur du sel. Good stuff!
My family's calls for saltines and regular sugar. Definitely a favorite!!
Emmy made a video making the saltine version too
When we made them with saltines when I was living at home with my mother, we called them "heartburn candy". They work really well with matzo for pesach, too!
Awww this just feels extra wholesome, even compared to normal Emmy content. I love recipes that take something simple and make something special and sentimental out of it.
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Parchment paper to the rescue!😊
My 5 year old while watching this: "emmy is like...she is a star!" 🥰
We love you, Emmy!
🥰 Aww...thank you little one.🧡
Haha my 3 year old is also obsessed.
My Aunt Betty use to make a mock apple pie, with Ritz crackers. So yummy
I think she has done a similar recipe when she was doing Depression era recipes!
That recipe was on the back of the box all through the 70's!
@@pattyofurniture694 yes, Emmy did make a depression Era mock apple pie, using Ritz crackers!!
haha - I was looking to see if anyone else brought up the Ritz mock apple pie! I remember it well. I also remember my Grandfather moaning about it being more expensive to make than apple pie (they had their own apple trees, so free fruit). Great memories...and you really couldn't tell what the heck that pie was made out of if you didn't know and it really was amazing....because Nanna made it :D Merry Christmas
My mom makes almost the exact same thing (the Ritz cracker bark) every year for Passover, except she lines the baking sheet with matzoh instead of Ritz crackers 😊 We usually do some with toffee on top and some without. It's so easy to customize and SO GOOD.
Matzo crack is one of the joys of Passover. I like mine with a sprinkling of sel gris on top.
Sadly I can’t find matzoh much where I live…in the Bible Belt 😒…so one of the ladies at temple uses saltines. So good
@@QueenCityHistory saltines used this way were called Christmas crack when I was a kid. My friend's mom always made it. I will have to try it with matzo.
@@QueenCityHistory I'm sorry you can't find matzoh where you live. That's disappointing, but makes sense being in the bible belt 😔 I'm sure it's just as good with saltines though! I've seen recipes that call for using those!
my grandma did that too
You have such a child like enthusiasm. Please don’t loose that. You’re such a joy to watch.
I occasionally do Ritz Cracker Pizza Snacks. A plate of Ritz, a bit of pizza sauce, a slice of pepperoni, some oregano and a final dash of grated parmesan cheese. Yummy!
My grandma did this recipe with saltines, but she also did other candied things like chocolate-dipped Ritz-PB sandwiches. She'd always put a little bit of red or green sanding sugar for the holidays too.
I love this! I make these amazing treats called PMS cookies with ritz for my daughter and I. Its 2 ritz sandwiching peanut butter and a little marshmallow fluff. Then you dip the cookie into melted chocolate and sprinkle a small amt of sea salt on top. They're so good!
I love spinach dip inside a large dark rye bread bowl ..yum. Fun recipes!
Ok, we're gonna need you to do a video on Burmese lahpet thoke ASAP!
If it's your favorite breakfast, I want it to be my favorite breakfast.
Burmese tea leaf salad is the BOMB. Have eaten it in a few restaurants in NYC and absolutely love the stuff!
I've made both, and I must decree that if you like sweet and salty flavors, you'll like them! Great for Christmas!
I made both of these but I had a wave of inspiration for the bark since I didn't have a very big tin to do it in. I blitzed the Ritz similar to the other recipe and mixed it with butter and pushed it into the tin like a cheesecake base. It has created a cross between a millionaire shortbread/daim bar and it's fabulous 🙂 thanks for the ideas, I would never have thought of ritz crackers being used in a dessert like this!
I've enjoyed making the toffee bars in the past with Graham crackers even adding a drizzle of melted white chocolate chips. My Sister suggested this year to buy Christmas sprinkles and crushed peppermint to decorate them! Very cute. The plain bars sound interesting to try, almost like rice crispy treats. I just made a batch for my Grandson's 20th birthday ...I sprinkled them with crushed toffee bits! Love your enthusiasm Dear!
Yes to white chocolate with the ritz toffee!!!
I loved hearing you reminisce about holiday traditions and the different foods that welcomed family and friends. Keeping these traditions and memories alive is at the very root of “family."
I’ve made the second candy using saltine crackers instead of Ritz. It tastes a lot like Almond Rocca even without the addition of almonds.
It’s always a hit!
Miss Em I think there are several of us who would enjoy you teaching some of your favorite Burmese dishes.
The first basically swapped Ritz Crackers for the Puffed Rice in Rice Crispy Treats.
The basic recipe is marshmallows, butter, and a filler.
Emmy has already done a video on Ritz Mock Apple Pie. Another favorite from my youth.
I love those Ritz candies. Every time I take them somewhere everyone wants the recipe. So simple and so good. I love to make Benedictine spread for any kind of crackers.
I make a recipe with ritz every year. Take 2 ritz crackers and spread one cracker with peanut butter and the other with marshmallow fluff. Put together like a sandwich and dip in melted chocolate. Let them set up/dry and you won’t be able to stop eating them 😋
Funny you say that the chocolate - toffee - cracker dessert reminds you of the holidays. In our family we have something similar at Passover. It has matzoh on the bottom in place of the Ritz. Rabbi Gary was the maker of that treat.
And then there's *latkes* for Chanukah! I like them with sour cream, but applesauce is also traditional.
I have SO many recipes that use *Ritz* crackers. One of my favorites is Pineapple Cheddar Casserole. It great when it's cooler outside.
I love that! 😋 My mom made it once and I've been wanting to taste it again. This is the perfect time of year to make that. Thank you for reminding me of it.
i love ritz because it encourages you to share with whoever is nearby. it really is like the commercials lol. ritz are how i coax my old dog to come with me when hes stubborn and tired.
I'm so proud of you Emmy! I just got recommended a short clip this video as a Ritz ad and I had to do a double take!
I buy so many packages of Ritz during the holidays that I feel like maybe I should own stock in the company. 😅
I use them in my escalloped corn, in three different candies, in two different jello salads/jello molds, in my cheese patties and we use them just as crackers for our olive and pickle trays, our cheeseboards and all of our dips.
They truly are a delicious and versatile ingredient that also tastes great just out of the package.
*The real bonus with Ritz is that they are lacto-ova vegetarian safe. They weren’t years ago and my family always had to use a substitute for the Ritz crackers. But since nothing beats that flaky, buttery little disc of loveliness… it’s nice that we can now use them for our many vegetarian dishes* ✌🏻💕😃
Make sure you watch your marshmallows while they're in the microwave!
Not because they're likely to burn or anything, just because it's fun to watch 'em poof up hehe
I live in Australia and most of the marshmallows you get here come in packages of white vanilla and pink strawberry flavoured marshmallows. Most people I know like the strawberry ones, but I don't and it annoys me a little that they only come in mixed bags, because the white ones end up tasting like strawberry too. Although I do rather like the strawberry ones when you drop one of each in a mug of hot chocolate.
I absolutely love Ritz. My favorite desert with the crackers is to take melted dark chocolate and pour it over them completely covering just one side, then let it harden in the fridge. They are simple and they are like crunchy, salty, and sweet! Please try it sometime! :D
I am going to try this with the cheese Ritz.
you should add a little bit of peppermint extract and that reminds me a Thin Mint cookie
Date Nut Cookies, aka Something On A Ritz: Chopped dates, chopped pecans and a can of sweetened condensed milk, cooked in a saucepan over medium low heat for 5 minutes or until thick and sticky. Spread on a Ritz cracker, chill overnight. Mix powdered sugar and cream cheese to create a frosting. Top cookies with frosting before serving.
Wow you reminded me of something I used to do when I was a kid. I used to make Ritz smores in the microwave. 2 crackers, 3 small marshmallows (or 1 med), and a piece of a Hershey bar. Everyone thought I was crazy till they tasted it!
I love mixing crushed Ritz crackers with a can of Sweetened Condensed Milk and a pack of Skor bits, spread on a cookie sheet and cooked for 10 minutes in the oven. Once cool, top with vanilla icing. Sooo good.
Hey Emmy. They both look yummy. I love Ritz Crackers with dip (esp. Spinach Artichoke), cheese, Hummus, Beef Summer Sausage and plain. The caramel and chocolate covered crackers are similar to what I grew up with, but it uses Saltine Crackers. We call it Georgia Crack, but some call it Xmas Crack. Very yummy and delicious. I'll have to try it with Ritz.
Such a wonderful host. Never been one for cooking shows but Emmy, you get me interested every time. I love the way you make it exciting to try. Easy to follow and understand. Such a joy to watch.... definitely going to surprise the kids this coming festive season with these delightful beauties. Good ol' Ritz crackers. Can always find a box of 'em about the pantry.... 👍🏼👍🏼😁😘
I'm with you Emmy. I love spinach dip. I also THOROUGHLY enjoy Lipton soup mix onion dip. Those dips make chips and pretzels so much better during the holidays. Definitely worth the bad breath aftermath😂😂!
Okay now I need an episode on holiday dips, especially your spinach dip!
This all looks amazing. Now I hope to use these dishes for the upcoming Christmas season!
Yay!🎄🎄🎄
Every Christmas I make Saltine Bark! It's the same recipe just with saltines!
it’s so comforting to me that you still make content when i grew up on these videos 🥰
She neat and clean ,I love she explains step by step.
My family makes the bark every year, but we always called it Christmas crack! Because you crack it! we usually use saltines, but one year my mom made it with pretzel twists and it was good as well!
Yum! I love the toffee chocolate Ritz; gotta make some of those! The marshmallow treats using crushed Ritz is definitely different! Never occurred to me to use anything other than a breakfast cereal...and I've used several!
Let me know if you try it. :)
I use Ritz for all sorts of things, baked stuffed Shrimp and Ritz and cream cheese are my faves.
We made the one with whole crackers using saltine crackers. We just sprinkled the sugar on top afterwards pouring the butter on. We did cook it in the oven the same as you until the sugar melted.
A really cute thanksgiving thing I made as a kid...vanilla wafers, chocolate covered cherries, and candy corn. you make them into turkeys. you can use chocolate or icing to glue it together.
These look really yummy! Plus the clips of the nicely plated treats with the music that abruptly stops and cuts to you eating was making me laugh
cracker candy, i also grew up making it with saltines. thanks so much ritz are a fave in our house
Wow I remember when ritz cracker used to come
I’m sleeves in Canada now they’re all thrown into a bag. My favorite crackers
The marshmallow treat seems similar to nougat. I'll bet dried/candied fruits would be awesome in it.
I learned an easy snack from someone that uses Ritz and it tastes exactly like those little debbie's Nutty Buddy bars. You just take 2 or 3 Ritz, put peanut butter between each one and then cover the cracker sandwich with chocolate. It's so good!
Oh no. Is that what those taste like? I LOVE those nutty buddy things. This just sounds dangerous now.
My favorite with spinach dip is a sourdough bread bowl. cut off the top and insides. Put the dip in the bowl and use the bread as the dipper. So good!
I wanted to make homemade candies again for friends and family and now I have two more treats to add! Thanks Emmy!
Just even love the intro and how fun you are, Emmy. Always a positive part of my life no matter how crazy life is. Thank you!
Nice video! I've made the toffee-type cracker candy with the chocolate topping but I used saltines. So good, because of the sweet and salty crunch it's really hard to stop eating them. I'd like to try the Ritz version.
I love the Nasturtium for garnish
I make copycat Thin Mints with Ritz! Melt candy bark and add a few drops of peppermint oil (food grade/for candy making) and dip the crackers! Easy as that :)
That cracker toffee recipe is so much better with soda crackers, they are a great texture with the toffee and the perfect shape for lining a pan. They are also much cheaper than Ritz making this a very inexpensive recipe, traditionally. I know it was sponsored but Ritz price themselves like a high end cracker here so this felt like a bit of a waste if the texture and buttery notes of the cracker aren't actually going to come through in the recipe. Along with the saltine toffee, my family always makes a square using coarsely crushed Ritz crackers along with skor bits (like chocolate chips but toffee flavored) and sweetened condensed milk, baked, and topped with buttercream. It's my favourite holiday square!
Emmy, great timing, My mom just picked up a package of fermented tea leaves! (: I’ve only ever had it as a salad topper so far. Need to get myself some ritz
My grandma used to make peanut butter sandwich crackers with these and then coat them in either regular or white chocolate at Christmas time. Such a wonderful memory.
I used to make a similar recipe to the second one. But instead of ritz crackers we do the same caramel and choc application but on top of matzoh for passover. It is one of the most popular passover desserts when I was growing up. I’ve neverr had it with ritz, but I bet it is good.
Love the nasturtium flower and leaves as decoration
Excellent video, two delicious looking recipes I'll have to try! Amazing job!
The 2nd recipe for cracker candy / bark is an old Appalachian Recipe that used Ritz instead of Saltine Crackers. It's a very old recipe that my great grandmother made in the early 1980's.
Mmmm! 😋 We used to call that Christmas Crack, but we made it with a different cracker (cough-Club-cough) that was rectangular shaped, so no gaps… not that it really matters, all recipes of that delightful candy disappear quickly! 😂. Never had the marshmallow one though! Looks similar to Rice Crispy treats, only more refined. 🤤
I’ve had it made with saltines too!
@@rvrotter1 - Yes! In fact, that may be what I was thinking of…but it’s been so long long, I forgot what cracker it was! I’ll have to rectify that by making some soon, lol! Saltines are square, so I was close… sort of. ☺️
We melt chocolate, add peppermint extract, dip ritz crackers, and make our own chocolate mint treats. We have a treat night and make loads of things too.
My favorite Ritz combo is a Ritz cracker covered with regular cream cheese topped with tomatoes chives paprika and a dash of seasoning salt.
I have made the second kind of candy that you did using saltine crackers. I haven’t made them in a while, but I think the recipe called for melting the chocolate chips with the butter and brown sugar. I will have to check back and make sure. It may have been done exactly the same way you did yours. I really want to make the first kind that you did because it sounds like a lot of fun.
The first candy seems like a crispy bar or popcorn ball as a fudge with crackers taking the puffed grain role.
This inspired an emergency run to the store; love Ritz crackers and love the salty/sweet combination. I would have never thought of this recipe but I am super excited to make it! ❤
Emmy,
Being very conscious of dental hygiene, and even though, I too love spinach dip, I never serve it at parties. My mom wanted it on the menu for my wedding reception and I said, "Heaven's no! The pictures and everyone smiling with spinach in their teeth! I offered to compromise by changing our little remembrance gifts to our guests to little dental kits (dental floss, travel toothbrush & small toothpaste) instead, but she didn't go along with that idea. So, in the end, there were clean teeth 😁 and wide smiles for pics and no need for 🪥ing because spinach was nixed. I, of course, never go anywhere without dental floss and always check my teeth after eating. My sister teases me mercilessly about my "dental floss habit," generally with something stuck between her teeth! Do you think I tell her about it?
Thanks as always for your wonderful videos!
Emmy with the Ritz sponsorship!!! They have good taste and taste good 👏👏
The first one is right up my alley!! Thank you for the suggestion!
That marshmallow thing sounds good. And so cheap and easy to make, I think I'll actually try it! Wonder if adding a touch of peanut butter instead of vanilla would change the consistency way too much.
My son and I really loved this video! We're definitely trying these recipes! 😋
EMMY..
you'll have to do a video on favorite dips for the holidays ? 👀🤗💕
My fav Christmas candy as a kid.
Everything about this video makes me happy.
I used to go into these cooking frenzies and make more than 20 different dishes on holidays. One year I had lost weight so wasn’t eating too much and when certain things were basically left untouched I realized I was the one who’d been hitting about five or six things all by myself haha… I’ve kept my holiday menu very downsized and it’s just fine for us. But I think we might be seeing some Ritz Cracker candy for the first time this Christmas. 🤷🏻♀️
Christmas Crack!! That's what we call the 2nd candy!!! Love it!
The second one is almost identical to a recipe my family always makes for Passover, except we use matzah (the chocolate and toffee is the only way to make that wretched flavorless cardboard be edible). My mom usually adds nuts, sugar pearls, and/or coarse salt, which I guess the Ritz crackers take care of to an extent here. We always call it Matzah Crack and everybody always spends all year looking forward to it. Plus it's a good way to use up leftover matzah, because there's no way in hell we're eating it otherwise 😊
I’m making both - I call the second one “Christmas Crack”! And it is delicious!!
I have subscribed and hit the like notification button. I look forward to making these for the holidays. Thanks
My mom loved Ritz with marshmallow cream and peanut butter on top!
I made the cracker candy bark with saltines last year and it was wonderful, I think I'll try the marshmallow candy this time.
OK this is kind of trippy, because I was just looking for different things to do with a box of Ritz crackers that I bought last week! I will try both of these! Thank you as always.
Don't you love it when that happens?✨⚡️
@@emmymade SO much!! :)
A long time ago, a friend made the second dessert using graham crackers. Didn't know the exact process, thanks!
Parchment paper to the rescue!🧼
I usually try to guess what the phrase is going to be before the end. I was so sure this one was going to be "Puttin' on the Ritz!"
My late wife use to have me make the (Bark) but with saltines. She called it "Christmas Crack" LOL really good stuff.
Omg, SPINACH DIP 🤍 - that's definitely the most holiday memory dip for me as well. We make it every year, and serve it in a pumpernickel bread bowl, and usually use the chunks from hollowing it out as our vessel. But Ritz too, absolutely yes 🥰
YES!!!! Served in a hollowed out bread bowl.🔥
@@emmymade - I have to ask, and I hope you'll see this... Do you like water chestnuts in yours? Because it's my favorite 🤍
Oh my! My grandmother and I used to make those bars with graham crackers. We would eat the pan together over the weekend. It was fantastic👌I'm going to need to make those soon.... tonight😂
Another favorite dip using those crackers is jalapeño jam and cream cheese! Just make the jam haw you usually make it but put tiny bits of jalapeños in it and whirl the jam in whipped cream cheese and dip with ritz crackers! Thanks for the video 👍🙏🏼
the pretzel one are wonderful for dipped chocolate made from easter chocolate(there's just something about E chocolate thats just different than Hershey's)
My mom makes the Ritz with chocolate on top and it's savory and sweet.
The second recipe brought back such a strong childhood memory for me.
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I have only had the bark made with saltines. It is so so good!
Always made Christmas Crack with saltines…I’m now excited to try it with Ritz!!!
Wow, you seem to have brought back a lot of wonderful memories for so many. I never heard of this but it sounds like its pretty darn good ! Easy to! I think this one is a go !
I'm definitely making this and sprinkle a bit of sea salt on-top of the chocolate as it cools 🤤
those alaska scarlet nasturtiums! so good!
Have you tried the Ritz cracker mock apple pie. Tip when you break up the Ritz crackers leave them slightly chunky so they're like apple slices.
I think both of these recipes would taste better with graham crackers, but that's just my opinion. I recognize and respect that you had to provide something highlighting the sponsorship's product. I make pecan pie bark/candy by making the last recipe with graham crackers and adding pecans, and the chocolate is optional.
My family's holiday treat with ritz is peanut butter mixed with a bit of powdered sugar to thicken to the right consistency, sandwiched between two crackers, and dipped in white chocolate. If you sprinkle it with gold or silver colored sugar or nonpareils it makes it look extra festive, and classier, while still being extremely affordable.
Can use any festive sprinkles that you have on hand though. Or could even drizzle with green and red melting chips.