I come from a large Spanish family. There are over 500 of us Granadoses that descend from Ramón and Maria Concepción, who arrived in the US from Sevilla with three children in tow and another on the way in 1911.
My grandfather, Luis, was their eldest child, and his baby girl, Chi-Chi gave us this recipe. Club Crackers with bacon and brown sugar. Now it’s a staple for all of our family Christmas parties.
You CANNOT stop eating these things … but, hey. It’s Christmas. They are a kind of deliciousness unparalleled in the world of nibbles and hors d’oeuvres.
3 simple ingredients – brown sugar, bacon, and Club crackers. They’re positively addictive. Like crack.
My travel hag girlfriends nicknamed these bacon crackers, “Christmas Crack.” It doesn’t matter if you make 50 or 150, they will be devoured.
Thank you, Aunt Chi-Chi. You were my favorite aunt and my second mother. We all honor you at Christmas for your love, your humor, your beauty, and ….. your Christmas Crack.
CHRISTMAS CRACK RECIPE
Ingredients:
2 packages of Keebler Club Crackers
1 lb bacon
Loose brown sugar
Preheat oven to 250. Separate each club cracker and lay them individually on a cookie sheet (salt side up).
Cut raw bacon slices into pieces the size of a club cracker and lay one piece on top of each cracker.
Sprinkle each bacon cracker with brown sugar and place in a preheated 250-degree oven for one hour.
Remove immediately (they will stick and be ruined if you don’t).
Cool on wire racks. Serve them warm or store them to be served later.
They will turn out golden brown. So delicious.
TIPS:
If you make the bacon slices too big (bigger than the cracker) the grease seeps into the cracker and they don’t crisp up. This makes you think they’re not done. Turning up the oven will burn them, and you’ll end up ditching them all. Get the leanest bacon you can, and make the slices smaller than the cracker.
Be sure to preheat the oven. The crackers need to go into a hot oven.
You can also use the pourable Domino’s brown sugar. This is easier, but the taste isn’t near as rich (in our opinion).
Merry Christmas!
