Today I will share with you an old family recipe. It is very easy to make. It is a good way to use up leftovers. It can be a breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, or dessert. It is delicious.
Have I peeked your interested?
It is frosting on oyster crackers!
What?
Oyster crackers. You know, the little round salty soup crackers. Nabisco Premium oyster crackers are my favorite brand. If you don’t have any oyster crackers, Saltines work too. Using Saltines just makes getting the ratio of frosting to cracker more tricky to get right.
What?
Oh, you meant that this concoction sounded gross? My husband thinks so too. But I try not to judge him too harshly for it. I will do the same for you.
Ta-Da!: I present to you Frosted Oyster Crackers
My mom used to eat this when I was little to use up leftover frosting. Because, of course, you cannot throw out extra frosting. It is sugar and fat in spreadable form. A precious commodity!
My mom often used chocolate frosting for this dish. I think I prefer vanilla. This is one of my most favorite desserts. Sometimes, if I haven’t had it in a while, I will just buy a can of frosting especially to make it.
I tell you, there is nothing quite like the combination of sweet and salty, unbleached enriched flour and hydrogenated oils (that is for you, LazyHippieMama!). That perfect little dollop of frosting smeared onto the cracker.
Hey, I wonder if I could turn them into a party snack. If I used a pastry bag (a.k.a. Ziploc bag with the corner cut off) I could make an attractive frosting peak on every cracker. Maybe I could run a toothpick into them. I wonder if my in-laws would eat them? That would mean I would have to stop double dipping though. But frosting might make the cracker soggy. Then it would not have the desirable crispiness that is required.
I am not one who usually shares recipes on my blog, and now you know why 😉 I currently have a whole can of red frosting leftover from my son’s caboose birthday cake. My waist line is already expanding. I should just throw it out. Will I?
Well, the jury is still out.
I did have to make up some crackers for the photo for this post.
And Betty Crocker frosting does last in the fridge for 30 days. (Damn it, I thought I bought Duncan Hines. I like DH better.) 6 more days to go…
I'm not stalking you. 
That is super cute. My kids would love that. I’m going to try to remember this. My husband was given some of the best cookies I’ve ever had. They were actually saltine crackers with chocolate on one side and caramel on the other. The chocolate and caramel were hardened somehow, and you couldn’t taste the cracker at all! Who knew?!
I made something like that once, but with chocolate graham crackers and marshmallows and M&Ms.
Okay, yours sounds way better.
I still love you. 😉
Sorry but I never cared for the salty/sweet thing. We always used up the frosting on Graham crackers.
Oh and btw you meant to pique my interest, not peek. See here:
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/peaked.html
Thanks for commenting! And I’m sorry, but I can’t afford one of those fancy editors to proofread all my posts!
Sorry, my OCD gets the best of me sometimes (lots of times actually).