Potato Chip Clusters are salty candy clusters with melted white chocolate, potato chips, and walnuts. The perfect savory-sweet party snack!
If you’ve made my Chocolate Covered Potato Chips or Mixed Nut Clusters, you know the absolutely delicious combination of sweet and salty flavors. I love easy Candy Recipes that only need a few ingredients, a microwave and a baking sheet.
Sabrina’s Potato Chip Clusters
Potato Chip Clusters are a great way to use up any extra bags of chips that didn’t quite make it to the snack table this past holiday season. Or grab a bag to make them for your Super Bowl Party. They are an easy recipe that everyone will love.
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Ingredients
- 12 ounces white chocolate
- 3/4 cup walnuts , chopped
- 4 cups ridged potato chips , crushed
Instructions
- Prepare a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Microwave chocolate in 30 second increments and stir between each time until fully melted.
- Add the walnuts and chips, folding them in gently until well combined.
- Use a 2 tablespoon scoop measure and scoop them onto a baking sheet.
- Let clusters completely harden before eating (you can place them in the refrigerator for 10 minutes or let them cool at room temperature for 1 hour).
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About This Recipe
These crunchy candies taste great with all kinds of candies or offbeat ingredients mixed in. From peanut butter to chopped nuts. I’ve included a few variations below to get you inspired, but feel free to add in your favorite candy or chocolate bars, toffee pieces, etc. These salty candy clusters are an easy-to-make, no-bake treat that you (or the kids) can whip up in minutes.
Chef’s Note
The best part is you can use any kind of potato chip you want, from Ruffles to Pringles. And if you only have a half a bag of Ruffles ridges left but you also have regular potato chips why not use both? This will give your chip clusters different levels of crisp that are still super tasty! While I haven’t personally been brave enough to try them with other flavors of potato chips (like BBQ or Ranch), something tells me the extra salty flavors with the melted chocolate would be a winning combination. If you try it out, let me know!
Can This be Made Ahead of Time?
Yup! Potato chips easily store in the freezer, which makes these salty candy clusters a perfect way to use up crushed chip pieces left in the bottom of the bag or the chip bowl throughout the year. Just store the crushed pieces in a freezer safe bag and then when you have enough, whip up a batch of these easy clusters!
How to Store
- Serve: These candy clusters will stay good at room temperature for a week if covered.
- Store: Keep your clusters fresh longer by storing in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
- Freeze: These can be frozen in a sealed container for up to 3 months.
Variations
- Nuts: Instead of walnuts, substitute for other favorites like pecans, crushed peanuts, pistachios, or slivered almonds.
- Dried Fruit: The salty flavor and sweet chocolate would pair great dried fruits like cranberries, apricots, or blueberries.
- Chocolate: Swap out the white chocolate for semisweet chocolate or dark chocolate. Try a decorative drizzle of dark chocolate over the white clusters to make pretty holiday snacks or gifts.
- Candy: Use up leftover candies and baking ingredients like toffee pieces, Marshmallows, Caramels, or peanut butter chips to add more sweet flavors to your salty candy clusters.
- Easter: Make these cute Easter treats by mixing in some pastel M&Ms. Use them as homemade Easter Basket candy or serve as a tea party treat.
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Did you use eating chocolate, baking chocolate or melting wafers?
Perhaps these tips from the blog will help! You can use any variation of chocolate, white, semi-sweet chips or melting chocolate wafers used for chocolate covered fruit.
Chocolate: Swap out the white chocolate for semisweet chocolate or dark chocolate. Try a decorative drizzle of dark chocolate over the white clusters to make pretty holiday snacks or gifts.
Candy: Use up leftover candies and baking ingredients like toffee pieces, Marshmallows, Caramels, or peanut butter chips to add more sweet flavors to your salty candy clusters.
These sound fantastic! For the chips, is it 3 cups of crushed pieces, or 3 cups whole chips crushed into pieces? I imagine the latter is a lot less chips than the former, and probably not enough?
I use the leftover crushed pieces in my chip bag to make these clusters! 3 cups of crushed pieces 🙂
These are like “melt in your mouth” delicious!
Thanks, Susie. I appreciate the 5 stars.
Such a unique dessert but that perfect balance of sweet and salty, which is my all time favorite flavor combo.
It always sounds weird but it just works.
How fun & tasty are these!? Love the sweet & salty combo. White chocolate is delicious with everything, even potato chips!
So glad you enjoyed them, Natalie.