The Ingredients.
serves 8 to 10
1 stick of butter
(salted is fine; 1/2 cup)
1 (12-ounce) bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 tablespoons peanut butter (optional if you have allergies)
1/2 cup brown
sugar
1/2 cup chopped peanuts (optional--we used honey roasted because that's what we had)
2 cups Fritos
The Directions.
Put the Fritos and the pretzels in a large Ziploc and smash until
crumby.
Set aside.
Line a 9 x 13 or so cookie sheet with nonstick foil or parchment paper. Set that aside, too.
Put the butter, the brown sugar, peanut butter, and chocolate chips into
your crockpot and set on high for 1-2 hours or until everything is really melty and you can mix it well (approx 1.5 hours ).
Add in the dry ingredients (fritos & pretzels).
Using oven mitts (use them! The crock is hot!) dump the hot candy out onto your lined cookie
sheet and spread out with a wooden spoon.
Sprinkle the peanut pieces on top.
Put the pan in the refrigerator for about an hour, or until candy has set completely. Break into pieces.
The Verdict.
Woah, mama! Man, these are amazing and wonderful and so scary in that they are SO good you want to take them all into a corner of the garage and eat them all by yourself.
Amazing. You must
make them.
What I love about melting chocolate in the crockpot is that it melts super slowly -- you still have to sort of keep an eye on it, but you have SO MUCH MORE WIGGLE room before it scorches the way it does on the stove.
also, since the heat is so slow and even, there is no need to fuss around with a double-boiler or
anything crazy like that.
:-)
enjoy!! happy slow cooking!!
steph
have you read my "non-crockpot" books? People always are super surprised when they learn that I don't actually *enjoy* cooking --- it's just
something that I do to feed the people that need to be fed...;-)I like figuring out ways to get all the stuff done that I HAVE to so then I can do the stuff that I WANT to..
and cooking, for me, at least right now, is a HAVE to...
