These Throwback Rolo-Ritz Sandwiches Are the Easiest Salty-Sweet Treat

I can remember my great-aunt proudly serving us mock apple pie, a Depression-era pie that contained no apples. Sure, the pie had been around long before the 1970s, but I didn’t know that as a little kid. I was just in awe of an apple pie with no apples, and in the 1970s the recipe was still on the back of the box of its main ingredient, Ritz Crackers. (Bakers also used soda crackers or saltines for the filling, but the pie is now squarely associated with the famous buttery round crackers.)

In the '70s, Andy Griffith was one of Ritz’s celebrity spokespeople, and he was known for this line: “Everything tastes great when it sits on a Ritz.” 

Everything? Really? Even chocolate? The answer is definitely “Yes!” Ritz and chocolate create a salty-sweet combo that’s so satisfying. You can use Ritz to make no-bake Thin Mint knockoffs. You can sub them for graham crackers in s’mores. 

TikTok sensation B. Dylan Thomas, whose specialty is baking vintage recipes, recently found a Ritz recipe in a 1979 cooking magazine that’s so simple and adds caramel to the mix of crackers and chocolate. 

Calling it “peak snack invention” in a short 47-second video, Thomas shows us how to make the Rolo-Ritz, a 2-ingredient snack sandwich. He holds up a 1979 edition of "Home Cooking" magazine and introduces viewers to Rolo-Ritz sandwiches.