Method of making coated pita chip

A method of making a hard-coated pita chip having a chip layer, a combination pita chip and hardened syrup layer, and a hardened syrup layer, the method comprising the steps of:

• preparing a liquefied sugar-based syrup comprising the steps of
• combining sugar, syrup and water;
• heating the combination sugar, syrup and water to between 280 and 300 degrees Fahrenheit until soluble materials are dissolved and evenly distributed into a liquefied mixture;
• lowering the temperature of the liquefied mixture and adding butter, baking soda, salt, and extract to the heated liquefied mixture, wherein the butter, baking soda, salt and extract are dissolved and evenly mixed into a liquefied mixture forming a liquefied sugar-based syrup;
• the butter, sugar, and syrup comprising between 80-90% of the liquefied sugar-based syrup, the salt comprising between 1%-3% of the liquefied sugar-based syrup, water comprising between 6-15% of the liquefied sugar-based syrup, extract comprising between 1%-3% of the liquefied sugar-based syrup, and baking soda comprising between 0.5%-1.5% of the liquefied sugar-based syrup,
• lowering the temperature of the liquefied sugar-based syrup to between 200 and 230 degrees Fahrenheit;
• and
• coating pita chips with the liquefied sugar-based syrup, forming a combination pita chip and liquified syrup layer,
• coating the coated pita chips with one or more inclusions;
• the liquified sugar-based syrup composition selected to allow binding of the syrup to pita chip as well as inclusions to and in the hardened syrup layer;
• wherein the coated pita chips are baked at a temperature of 250-300 degrees Fahrenheit to harden and bond the liquefied sugar-based syrup to the pita chips;
• hardening the liquefied sugar-based syrup such that the sugar-based syrup is bonded with the one or more inclusions to the pita chips and such that the sugar-based syrup is bonded with the pita chip, forming the combination pita chip and hardened syrup layer comprised of both pita chip and hardened sugar-based syrup, and such that the sugar-based syrup forms the hardened syrup layer on top of the combination pita chip and hardened syrup layer, and
• wherein the sugar-based syrup is hardened to a brittle and crisp coating at the hardened syrup layer.