This Club Cracker Caramel Bars Recipe with caramel and chocolate is one of the best combinations and when you add some salt, the recipe becomes irresistible!
These club cracker caramel bars are what I remember my aunt calling “Rickety Uncles” when I was young but I think I might have mixed them up with another recipe in my young mind. These bars are easy to make and delicious any time of the year.
Start by making two cups of graham cracker crumbs. This is about two sleeves of graham crackers. I used my Kitchen Aid Food Processor. If you don’t have a food processor, put the graham crackers in a gallon sized zip top bag and use a rolling pin to crush them.
Next, cover the bottom of a jelly roll pan with club crackers and set aside. Make the caramel sauce, pour it over the crackers and spread to coat.
Top the caramel with another layer of club crackers. Melt semi-sweet chocolate chips and butterscotch chips in the microwave and stir to combine. Pour over the crackers and spread it out.
Allow the bars to cool and set before cutting into pieces.
I was babysitting my sister’s kid’s while editing these photos and they wanted to watch what I was doing. When they saw the pictures of the bars, they made a joint decision that we should immediately make them again. Try bringing these Club Cracker Caramel Bars to your next get together and watch them fly off the plate! They are simply irresistible!
Club Cracker Caramel Bars
Ingredients
- 13.27 ounce box Club Crackers
- 2 cups crushed graham crackers about 2 sleeves
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar
- 1 cup butter
- ⅔ cup evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 11 ounces butterscotch chips
Instructions
- Line a jelly roll pan with club crackers.
- To make the caramel sauce, put the crushed graham crackers, brown sugar, butter, and evaporated milk in a pot and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring often. Turn the heat to low and boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Pour the caramel sauce over the club crackers in the pan and spread to cover.
- Top with another layer of club crackers.
- Melt semi-sweet chocolate chips and butterscotch chips in the microwave. Stir until smooth and spread over the club crackers in the pan.
- Allow the bars to cool and set before cutting into pieces.
Nutrition
Here are a few more bars recipes to try:
Sugar Cookie Bars | Banana Bars | No Bake Nutella Bars
Chocolate Truffle Bars | Monster Cookie Bars | Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Betty Cole Rader says
Hi, I wanted to comment on this recipe. I made them for the first time last week for a church function. I am always leery about taking a first time try for any function; however, they were a total hit, and I have to agree they do taste delicious! People are begging for the recipe! I was concerned about the appearance because of being unable to see the bottom layer of crackers they turned out very uneven and did not look so great!! Didn’t seem to bother anyone but me, though! I’m sure I can improve some next time around. Thanks for a wonderful recipe. Keep up the good work!
EG says
What size box of crackers. How many crackers? Thanks
Tonia says
I believe you need about 40 crackers for each layer so 80 crackers in total. There is enough in a 13.7 oz box.
Betty Cole Rader says
I ended up using the 13×18 cookie sheet and used the entire box of club crackers making about 50 bars!
Joanne Graff says
I made these using a similar recipe. The sauce ended up soaking the bottom layer of crackers; I don’t think that they were meant to do that. I noticed my recipe call for ‘milk’, not evaporated milk,. Would that have made the difference?
Tonia says
That definitely would make a difference in the recipe. Evaporated milk is concentrated milk with about 60% of the water removed from it.
Karen Krusen says
My caramel sauce was not pourable, I had to spoon and spread it on. I’m wondering if this is normal?
Tonia says
It is pretty thick. I use a spatula to get it out of the pan and spread on the crackers.
Kathleen Welsh says
There is no direction for use of the vanilla in the recipe, I assume it’s the caramel sauce preparation?
Tonia says
Yes, you stir it in after you remove the caramel sauce from the heat. Sorry about that!
Dena says
I am confused by the butterscotch chips do you mean the chocolate chip style ones or the hard candies? Loved your photos!
Tonia says
Yes, they are like chocolate chips. Best of luck! ~Tonia
Denise says
What size pan is a jelly roll pan?
Eva says
and this. A must try on the weekend! xx
Grace says
Ugh, Looks so delicious. Irresistible this one is!
Roxana says
These remind me of Twix Bars! They look so good!