Ritz Cracker Cookies Recipe

I make these every Christmas and Halloween! I use a fairly big dollop of peanut butter right in the middle of the cracker and when I top it with the other cracker I smoosh them until the peanut butter is at the edges. I also use almond bark with a teaspoon of shortening, rather than chocolate chips. It microwaves great and the shortening makes it smooth and easy to dip. Another tip: Make sure that you get off every bit of excess chocolate or they will be sitting in a little puddle by the time they cool and won't be as attractive. One more thing: These are so easy to decorate! I always use holiday sprinkles, applied right after I dip them while the chocolate is still shiny. Alternatively, I put a little chocolate of a contrasting color (white chocolate if I dipped the cookies in milk chocolate, or vice versa) into a baggie and melt it in the microwave. Then I snip off just the barest corner and squeeze it back and forth over the cookies to make a nice pattern. OR I buy candy food coloring and turn the white almond bark whatever color I like! Hope these tips help someone!

I make these every Christmas but for the life of me, I couldn't remember their other name. This is really cost-effective to make (especially when you coupon and get crackers, baking chips and peanut butter for cheap!) and it's also kid friendly. The flavor of these is almost like a Butterfinger. These always are the hit of any cookie tray and I always get asked for the recipe (and really, I've had people shocked when they find out really what's in it) so make sure you bring paper copies of the recipe. This bends to whatever kind of peanut butter you have, wether it's chunky or smooth, and whatever baking chips you have on hand. You don't have to have a double boiler, you can melt the chips in a microwave safe bowl 40 seconds at a time, stirring well at the end of every 40 seconds until it's the right consistancy. I recommend you use a name brand peanut butter if you can, only because with some cheaper peanut butters, they can get liquid-y and sometimes seperate and it's not pretty. This is also good with peanut butter/marshmallow fluff or peanut butter/Nutella. It really is super bendable and really fun to play with. Even adding a teaspoon of extract, like peppermint, to the melted chocolate is a whole other way to make it different. NOTE: You should guesstimate that it's one bag of chips per sleeve of crackers. That's how it usually works out for me.

I made these today using chocolate almond bark instead of chocolate chips. THEY WERE AWESOME!!! The almond bark melted in about 2 min. in the microwave. I used a decorating tool to pipe on the peanut butter which was easier than spreading each cracker with a knife. I speared a cracker sanwich with a fork into the peanut butter middle and dipped it in the chocolate and made sure it was good and coated, then used another fork to gently push the treat off onto a rack to drain and set. The coating was the only tedious part but I found this recipe to be very easy and yummy! There are so many ways to change it up and make it different each time. Next time I will try white almond bark, or chocolate frosting on one cracker and peanut butter on the other and sandwich those together before coating, add sprinkles, anything really! I will make them again and again! Thanks for a great but simple and impressive treat!

These are loved by everyone who tries them! As previously suggested, I melted the chocolate in my fondue pot and to make the chocolate smoother/easier for dipping, I added some heavy whipped cream that I had on hand. I made these and the "Fudge by Dana" all in one day with the fondue pot, and loved that I didn't have to turn on my oven at all. :-)

Yes! Yes! Yes! A chocolate-and-peanutbutter-lover’s dream come true! Put extra pb in a few of them; they were my favorites. Didn’t have wax paper, so I used a non-stick baking sheet instead and popped cookies in the freezer for 20 minutes; that worked great. Also, I was lazy and used chocolate chips to save a step. I may be even lazier next time and nuke the chocolate instead of using a double boiler. Fun recipe.

A trick I have discovered....put a stack of crackers spread out on a kitchen towel, then fill a pastry/icing bag with the peanut butter and squeeze a dollop of peanut butter on each cracker (the towel keeps them from scooting all over the counter), top with second cracker and dip. I also melt the chocolate in my electric fondue pot. Use low setting and it works great.

I love love love these! I use chocolate almond bark and melt it in the microwave for ease. I have tried using the pre-made Ritz Bitz peanut butter sandwich crackers - was much easier, however the peanut butter just doesn't taste real. As another poster suggested, putting the peanut butter in a bag a squeezing it on really helps cut the messiness out as well!

The flavor of these was great! I topped with red and green sprinkles for Christmas. I would change the chocolate mixture a bit, however. I melted 12 oz. butterscotch chips, 12 oz. chocolate chips, and half a block of paraffin (wax for candy making) in a double boiler, mixing with a wire whisk until smooth. The mixture turns out very silky, and stays that way. It is a fantastic tasting and easy-to-work-with melt, and works great if you dip what's leftover onto macaroon cookies (see "Macaroons III" on this site). Thanks for the recipe!

OMG!! So simple I had my young daughters assemble as an activity to keep them busy. So good, they were hard to stop eating. I used 36 crackers or 18 cookies total and used a 12 oz bag of milk chocolate chips that I just melted in the microwave and dipped the sandwiches in while using 2 forks to hold onto. Just the perfect amount of chocolate. Sprinkled with decorative sprinkles. I have got to try these with rasberry jelly and/or marshmellow fluff. So additive.

What a delicious mess! Yum, I used semi-sweet morsels & microwaved at 50% power, perfect! Mine don't look pretty, but they taste awesome!

I made my own version - Instead of the PB and crackers, I used Oreo sandwich cookies. I coated half of them with melted white chocolate and drizzled some chocolate on it or some colored sprinkles or some rainbow sprinkles on top. I coated the other half with melted brown chocolate and drizzled it with white chocolate or colored sprinkles. I placed them on a parchment lined cookie sheet and into the refrigerator to set for about 20 minutes. It was quite a hit with the kids and super easy to make!! the kids were able to help out as well!

GREAT!💜

Didn’t think it would turn out this good!

I use milk chocolate and have been making these since I was a kid. Friends and family always look forward to these from me around the holidays!

These are so simple and so good. You have to work quickly so that the peanut butter doesn't melt in your pan, but you get the hang of it.

These are delicious ! I used 24 oz. of almond bark coating and it made about 40 of these tasty morsels. Ill be making these often.

Delicious

These were very rich but the kids loved them and the loved that they were pucks.

Yum

These hockey pucks are so easy and so delicious! I have made them for several occasions and everyone has loved them. I have even made them for a "hockey" bake sale and they were a hit!