RITZ Crackers - 13.7 Oz Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers Baked Snack Flavor Blasted Xtra Cheddar Carton Bulk - 30 Oz Keebler Club Crackers Original Snack Stacks Grab N Go - 12.5 Oz. A lunchbox favorite and staple in every grandmother's kitchen, crackers and cheese are one of life's true snacking pleasures. There's nothing wrong with the classic combination, but feel free to. These Candy Stuffed Ritz Sandwiches are the perfect quick treat! Perfect for gifting or a quick little snack! I hate to do this to you. You know with it being so close to the holidays and all. But you need to make these. They will only take you a few minutes. Triple dog promise. Then you can totally get back to whatever holiday-ish stuff that needs tending. They are salty/sweet.
Easy Snacks with RITZ Crackers is a conversation written by me and sponsored by POPSUGAR and RITZ Crackers. Thank you in advance for supporting the brands we love!!!
I'm not typically overconfident in any area of life, but I will say, I make a mean snack, and I've become quite well-versed at hosting parties over the years. The combination of the two has resulted in me throwing some type of gathering on a weekly basis, typically a play date with my son and some of his baby 'friends' (if you can call them friends at 15 months old) or a casual happy hour with a few of my girlfriends.
When it comes to entertaining, I'm always up for a challenge, so when POPSUGAR and RITZ Crackers wanted me to show that I have 'the right stuff' to get creative with RITZ Crackers for some type of occasion, I couldn't say 'yes' fast enough!
We are big on snacks in our family, and like a lot of people our age, we practically grew up on RITZ Crackers. Not surprisingly, our son has become equally infatuated with the buttery flavored cracker, so it's definitely something we tend to keep on hand. While we love to eat them plain, for a get-together it's nice to elevate things a bit while keeping things simple at the same time – and the options are endless with these guys.
I happen to be hosting a happy hour at my house tonight, so I thought it would be fun to set up a little happy hour for Teddy before the girls showed up. For me (and for the girls later), I whipped up a supereasy take on bagel and lox by mixing some softened cream cheese with a ton of fresh herbs. I used chives from my backyard and dill from the store, which both go perfectly with smoked salmon, but you could use whatever herbs you've got on hand – even finely minced green onion would work nicely. From there, it couldn't be simpler: the cream cheese mixture is spread onto the crackers and each one is topped with a tiny piece of salmon and then sprinkled with a little bit of extra dill and chive – literally the easiest snack on the planet.
I'm pretty sure from start to finish the whole thing took me five, maybe six minutes to throw together, and they could not look more elegant!
For Teddy's snack, I went even simpler and topped each cracker with a bit of almond butter. Again, you can just use what you have on hand, but if you have it, sunflower butter would also be lovely, and obviously, you can't go wrong with classic peanut butter.
Nestled on top of each almond-butter-covered cracker are apples sliced superthin so they fit ever so perfectly onto each cracker. For a little sweetness, I drizzled a touch of honey over the top of each one and then let Teddy go to town, and as you can see, he definitely went to town.
I know you've got 'the right stuff' to get creative yourself, what would YOU make?? I want to hear ALL of your ideas so I can start implementing them at my next happy hour, which is next week…
Be sure to check out RITZ Crackers for more easy snack ideas!
- ⅓ cup almond butter
- 16 RITZ Crackers
- 1 Granny Smith apple
- 3 tablespoons honey
- Flaked salt (optional)
- Spread about a teaspoon of almond butter onto each RITZ Cracker.
- Peel apple. Cut off cheeks and thinly slice each cheek. Cut in half so each apple slice is about the length of the RITZ Cracker.
- Layer three or four pieces of apple on top of almond butter. Drizzle with honey. Sprinkle with salt, if using.
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser.
All opinions are mine alone. #PutItOnARitz #CollectiveBias
Enter for a chance to win one of forty $100 Walmart e-Gift Cards (10 per week) by uploading an Instagram photo of your RITZ®-topped creation with #putitonaritzcontest. Purchase of RITZ® is not required.
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I have this strange affection for RITZ® Crackers. Bear with me… After I graduated college I did the 'Tour of Europe' with a group of friends. From England to France to Italy we traveled by bus along with a group of strangers from all over the world. Since this was my first time in Europe, I was soaking it all in (meaning… I was eating my way through foreign country after foreign country). One evening after partaking in a 10 course fish meal in Burano, Italy I found myself up at 3am praying to the porcelain God. Dear God please let me die now! I literally thought I would keel over and die any moment and my friends were in a panic over what to do with me. We were in a chalet in the Italian Alps where no one spoke English and we were probably 60 miles from a hospital. After waking up the hotel manager, they checked the hotel register and noticed there was a doctor staying overnight. They rang his room and luckily he showed up at our door with a black bag and everything. Turned out he was a pediatrician from San Francisco (SCORE!), took one look at me (pretty sure I was green by then), and pronounced that I had food poisoning.
The problem was that we were due to board another bus in the morning and head to Austria. How was I supposed to sit on a bus for an entire day… a bus without a bathroom? My friends came to the rescue again by finding a box of RITZ® Crackers. Yep… RITZ® Crackers were found somewhere in the Italian Alps and those crackers got me through the entire next day. It was all I could physically keep down… and no cracker has EVER tasted so good.
That's probably why I am excited about the RITZ® Snackify Challenge. I've been checking out all the amazing entries they have gotten and when I thought about what I would make, I didn't have to think for long. I knew exactly what I would make and my first stop was at Walmart to pick up my most important ingredient.
You kind of can't miss the RITZ® when you walk down the cracker aisle. What did surprise me, however, was how many different flavors they now come in. I'm partial to the original flavor, but the kids had their own favorites.
Luckily, Walmart was holding a RITZ® demo and I got to have a little snack while I was shopping.
I didn't have to think too hard about what I would make because every time I hear the word 'cracker' I jump to my all-time favorite movie… SABRINA. Who doesn't love Audrey Hepburn? So… her character, Sabrina, is the chauffer's daughter on a huge Long Island estate that is the home to two brothers… David (played by William Holden), who Sabrina is madly in love with… and Linus (played by Humphrey Bogard), who is the older brother and pretty stodgy. The gist of the movie is that Sabrina starts out loving David, but by the end of the movie she falls in love with Linus. Meanwhile, Sabrina is sent off to Paris to learn how to be a cook. Now anyone who knows anything about French cuisine knows how difficult it is to make the perfect souffle. Although Sabrina fails miserably at it while in cooking school… she seems to have figured out the secret by the time she meets back up with Linus in his office.
In the tiny office kitchen, Sabrina whipped up a souffle with nothing but a few crackers and eggs. Every time I think of grabbing something from the pantry, it usually includes crackers and eggs.
For this recipe, I needed a few more ingredients, but chances are pretty good you'll already have everything you need in your fridge and pantry. This particular recipe was originally from Epicurious and I changed it up to make small, individual souffles with RITZ® Crackers.
Ingredients:
RITZ® Crackers (any variety you like, I used the original flavor) 1 cup whole milk or half & half 4 egg y0lks 5 egg whites 2 1/2 tbs butter 3 tbs flour 1/2 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp salt pinch of nutmeg 1 cup grated Gruyere cheese 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Directions:
When it comes to entertaining, I'm always up for a challenge, so when POPSUGAR and RITZ Crackers wanted me to show that I have 'the right stuff' to get creative with RITZ Crackers for some type of occasion, I couldn't say 'yes' fast enough!
We are big on snacks in our family, and like a lot of people our age, we practically grew up on RITZ Crackers. Not surprisingly, our son has become equally infatuated with the buttery flavored cracker, so it's definitely something we tend to keep on hand. While we love to eat them plain, for a get-together it's nice to elevate things a bit while keeping things simple at the same time – and the options are endless with these guys.
I happen to be hosting a happy hour at my house tonight, so I thought it would be fun to set up a little happy hour for Teddy before the girls showed up. For me (and for the girls later), I whipped up a supereasy take on bagel and lox by mixing some softened cream cheese with a ton of fresh herbs. I used chives from my backyard and dill from the store, which both go perfectly with smoked salmon, but you could use whatever herbs you've got on hand – even finely minced green onion would work nicely. From there, it couldn't be simpler: the cream cheese mixture is spread onto the crackers and each one is topped with a tiny piece of salmon and then sprinkled with a little bit of extra dill and chive – literally the easiest snack on the planet.
I'm pretty sure from start to finish the whole thing took me five, maybe six minutes to throw together, and they could not look more elegant!
For Teddy's snack, I went even simpler and topped each cracker with a bit of almond butter. Again, you can just use what you have on hand, but if you have it, sunflower butter would also be lovely, and obviously, you can't go wrong with classic peanut butter.
Nestled on top of each almond-butter-covered cracker are apples sliced superthin so they fit ever so perfectly onto each cracker. For a little sweetness, I drizzled a touch of honey over the top of each one and then let Teddy go to town, and as you can see, he definitely went to town.
I know you've got 'the right stuff' to get creative yourself, what would YOU make?? I want to hear ALL of your ideas so I can start implementing them at my next happy hour, which is next week…
Be sure to check out RITZ Crackers for more easy snack ideas!
- ⅓ cup almond butter
- 16 RITZ Crackers
- 1 Granny Smith apple
- 3 tablespoons honey
- Flaked salt (optional)
- Spread about a teaspoon of almond butter onto each RITZ Cracker.
- Peel apple. Cut off cheeks and thinly slice each cheek. Cut in half so each apple slice is about the length of the RITZ Cracker.
- Layer three or four pieces of apple on top of almond butter. Drizzle with honey. Sprinkle with salt, if using.
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser.
All opinions are mine alone. #PutItOnARitz #CollectiveBias
Enter for a chance to win one of forty $100 Walmart e-Gift Cards (10 per week) by uploading an Instagram photo of your RITZ®-topped creation with #putitonaritzcontest. Purchase of RITZ® is not required.
Ritz Snackify Challenge Instagram Contest
I have this strange affection for RITZ® Crackers. Bear with me… After I graduated college I did the 'Tour of Europe' with a group of friends. From England to France to Italy we traveled by bus along with a group of strangers from all over the world. Since this was my first time in Europe, I was soaking it all in (meaning… I was eating my way through foreign country after foreign country). One evening after partaking in a 10 course fish meal in Burano, Italy I found myself up at 3am praying to the porcelain God. Dear God please let me die now! I literally thought I would keel over and die any moment and my friends were in a panic over what to do with me. We were in a chalet in the Italian Alps where no one spoke English and we were probably 60 miles from a hospital. After waking up the hotel manager, they checked the hotel register and noticed there was a doctor staying overnight. They rang his room and luckily he showed up at our door with a black bag and everything. Turned out he was a pediatrician from San Francisco (SCORE!), took one look at me (pretty sure I was green by then), and pronounced that I had food poisoning.
The problem was that we were due to board another bus in the morning and head to Austria. How was I supposed to sit on a bus for an entire day… a bus without a bathroom? My friends came to the rescue again by finding a box of RITZ® Crackers. Yep… RITZ® Crackers were found somewhere in the Italian Alps and those crackers got me through the entire next day. It was all I could physically keep down… and no cracker has EVER tasted so good.
That's probably why I am excited about the RITZ® Snackify Challenge. I've been checking out all the amazing entries they have gotten and when I thought about what I would make, I didn't have to think for long. I knew exactly what I would make and my first stop was at Walmart to pick up my most important ingredient.
You kind of can't miss the RITZ® when you walk down the cracker aisle. What did surprise me, however, was how many different flavors they now come in. I'm partial to the original flavor, but the kids had their own favorites.
Luckily, Walmart was holding a RITZ® demo and I got to have a little snack while I was shopping.
I didn't have to think too hard about what I would make because every time I hear the word 'cracker' I jump to my all-time favorite movie… SABRINA. Who doesn't love Audrey Hepburn? So… her character, Sabrina, is the chauffer's daughter on a huge Long Island estate that is the home to two brothers… David (played by William Holden), who Sabrina is madly in love with… and Linus (played by Humphrey Bogard), who is the older brother and pretty stodgy. The gist of the movie is that Sabrina starts out loving David, but by the end of the movie she falls in love with Linus. Meanwhile, Sabrina is sent off to Paris to learn how to be a cook. Now anyone who knows anything about French cuisine knows how difficult it is to make the perfect souffle. Although Sabrina fails miserably at it while in cooking school… she seems to have figured out the secret by the time she meets back up with Linus in his office.
In the tiny office kitchen, Sabrina whipped up a souffle with nothing but a few crackers and eggs. Every time I think of grabbing something from the pantry, it usually includes crackers and eggs.
For this recipe, I needed a few more ingredients, but chances are pretty good you'll already have everything you need in your fridge and pantry. This particular recipe was originally from Epicurious and I changed it up to make small, individual souffles with RITZ® Crackers.
Ingredients:
RITZ® Crackers (any variety you like, I used the original flavor) 1 cup whole milk or half & half 4 egg y0lks 5 egg whites 2 1/2 tbs butter 3 tbs flour 1/2 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp salt pinch of nutmeg 1 cup grated Gruyere cheese 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Directions:
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
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I used a muffin tin for my individual souffles. Grease them very well and coat the bottom with some parmesan cheese (adds immense flavor).
(1) In one saucepan you will heat the milk until hot but not boiling. (2) In another saucepan, melt the butter. (3) When the butter is melted, whisk in the flour and pour the heated milk into the flour mixture and whisk very well. Add in the salt, nutmeg and paprika. Add each egg yolk one at a time and whisk after each one. (4) Transfer to another bowl and let sit until it reaches room temperature.
Meanwhile, use an electric mixer to blend your egg whites. Fold mixture into the cooled flour mixture alternatively with the Gruyere cheese.
Pour mixture into muffin tins. Now this is where making a souffle becomes difficult. You do NOT want to mess around with the oven, but with mini souffles you need to be careful that you are cooking them exactly right. A large souffle will take longer, but mini ones should only take about 10 minutes to cook. Every oven is slightly different so you might have to experiment with yours. You want to cook the souffles until they are slightly browned.
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Let cool a bit (but not too much) and then carefully use a fork to take the souffle out of the muffin tin. Lay on top of a RITZ® cracker and you have yourself a gourmet meal or snack. These would be great for a party, but I served mine to my family for dinner along with a caesar salad and it made for a fabulous meal.
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What are you going to make for your Snackify Challenge entry?
- RITZ® Crackers (any variety you like, I used the original flavor)
- 1 cup whole milk or half & half
- 4 egg y0lks
- 5 egg whites
- 2 1/2 tbs butter
- 3 tbs flour
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp salt
- pinch of nutmeg
- 1 cup grated Gruyere cheese
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Heat milk in a saucepan until hot, not boiling.
- In a separate saucepan, melt the butter and then whisk in the flour.
- Add the hot milk to the flour mixture and then add in the spices.
- Add in the egg yolks and mix well.
- Let cool to room temperature.
- Meanwhile, use an electric mixture to beat the egg whites until firm.
- Fold the egg whites and the Gruyere cheese into the cooled mixture.
- Grease a muffin tin generously with butter.
- Add some parmesan cheese to the bottom of the tin cups.
- Spoon a large amount of cheese and egg mixture into each muffin cup. Don't fill completely to the top.
- Bake for approximately 10 minutes, until the top is golden brown.
- Let cool for a few moments and gently lift out with fork.
- Sit on top of Ritz Crackers and serve slightly warm.
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