Peanut Butter Cracker Toffee Recipe

Peanut Butter Cracker Toffee is crackly, sweet and downright irresistible. Turn saltine crackers into delicious homemade candy with this easy, buttery toffee recipe!

With just a few pantry staples and a baking sheet, you can turn simple crackers into a salty-sweet, crunchy peanut butter dessert. After years of baking and testing recipes, homemade cracker toffee is the kind of recipe even a beginner can make.

A bowl filled with peanut butter cracker toffee bars, topped with a creamy frosting, sits on a wooden surface.

Aimee’s Recipe Notes

Taste & Texture: crispy, buttery toffee with deep caramel and peanut butter flavor.

Ease to Make: Perfect for beginners! Minimal ingredients with no candy thermometer required.

Top Tip: Use fresh crackers, not stale.

Prep Ahead: This cracker toffee can be made a week in advance. Once cooled and set, break into pieces and store in airtight container at room temperature.

Gift Idea: Slide pieces of candy into a plastic gift bag or tupperware container. Everyone loves homemade treats, especially candy!

Why This Toffee is Best

Today’s peanut butter toffee is based on my saltine toffee recipe—with a peanut butter twist.

Delicious crunchy toffee texture.
Sweet and salty peanut butter flavor.
Drizzled with peanut butter mixed with white chocolate.
A 5 ingredient recipe that’s ready in 20 minutes!

Using saltine crackers as the base for this toffee eliminates the need for candy thermometers or other special equipment. I love the saltiness of the crackers paired with the sweet candy coating, too!

Just 5 Ingredients

Saltine crackers, creamy peanut butter, butter, white chocolate chips, and sugar come together to create a delicious peanut butter cracker toffee arranged on a marble surface.

Scroll down to the recipe card for a complete list with measurements.

Saltine Crackers – Both saltines and club crackers work well for making toffee. For a less salty toffee, graham crackers make a good substitute. Ritz crackers are great for a more buttery treat.
Butter and sugar – These are boiled together to create the toffee candy coating. The sugar caramelizes and creates the deep caramel flavor.
Peanut butter – Creamy peanut butter is best for flavoring this toffee. Use a shelf stable peanut butter for best results.
White chocolate chips – This is melted and combined with peanut butter to make the toffee topping. White chocolate melting wafers or a bar of white chocolate could be used as a substitute.

How to Make Peanut Butter Cracker Toffee

Left: Wooden spoon stirs melted butter in a saucepan. Right: Frosted rectangular cake on a baking sheet, perfect alongside homemade peanut butter cracker toffee.

Line your baking sheet with parchment paper. This will not only make the crackers easier to remove from the pan, but it will make clean up so much easier!
Allow crackers to cool completely before breaking into pieces. You can either let them cool in the pan, or using the parchment paper, slide the entire pan of toffee onto a wire rack to cool.
Once cooled, use a sharp knife to cut these into pieces. Store in airtight container until ready to eat.

Rectangular pieces of peanut butter cracker toffee bark with a white chocolate topping, arranged on a white surface.

Recipe FAQs

Should I use salted or unsalted saltines for toffee?

That depends on how much saltiness you like in the toffee. Unsalted crackers will give the toffee less of a sweet-and-salty flavor. I like the taste of the salt paired with the sweetness of the toffee and white chocolate.

I don’t like white chocolate. What can I use instead?

Milk chocolate chips are another delicious option. It makes the toffee taste like a crispy peanut butter cup! Or use melted peanut butter chips instead for even more peanut butter flavor.

Does saltine toffee need to be refrigerated?

Saltine cracker toffee like this one does not need to be kept in the refrigerator. I store mine on the counter at room temperature in an airtight container. It stays fresh and crispy for over a week.

Can I freeze toffee with peanut butter?

To freeze this toffee, wrap it tightly in aluminum foil. Place in a freezer bag and store in the freezer for up to 1 month.

Flavor Variations

Graham Crackers. Nobody will guess that this sweet toffee starts with graham crackers. Graham Cracker Toffee bars are crunchy and topped with pecans and melted chocolate!
Chocolate Coconut. Crispy graham cracker base with buttery caramel, toasted coconut and pecans, and melted chocolate make this Caramel Coconut Cracker Toffee the best treat!
Candy Canes. This Peppermint Cracker Toffee is ridiculously easy and delicious. Crisp, buttery toffee topped with white chocolate and peppermint candy!
Oreo Cookies. Oreo Graham Cracker Toffee is a sweet and scrumptious snack! This recipe layers crunchy cracker toffee with white chocolate and Oreos for a treat everyone will devour.
Gooey S’mores Topping. S’mores Cracker Toffee is made by layering graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate. This treat has a crunchy toffee base with a gooey s’mores topping!

Looking for authentic toffee made from scratch? Try my homemade English toffee recipe next! Or give one of my other homemade candy recipes a try!

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