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How to Make Homemade Crackers in 5 Minutes
By Melissa Norris | Bread
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Homemade crackers in 5 minutes, and they can be made with regular all-purpose flour or swap in some whole wheat flour for homemade whole wheat crackers, for real. Either way, the dough whips up in 5 minutes. And let’s be honest, when you can make your own crackers with this little effort that have way more taste and with whole food real ingredients, you’ll never go back to buying them again!
Though I warn you, you’ll be making these bad boys often… you might just want to double up the recipe, because once your family knows you know how to make crackers and tastes them, they’ll be gobbling them up.
If you’re ready to:
Then this is your recipe, and I’m about to rock your world, because they only take 5 minutes to whip up and 10 minutes to bake, which means, hello crispy delicious wonderful get-in-my-mouth now crackers in 15 minutes total!
You’re welcome.
Oh yeah, and they only cost $.40 a batch with real food ingredients. I know, coolest thing since sliced bread.
If you’re trying to cut out fake processed food, slash your grocery budget, and keep up with your busy schedule, then my friend, have you ever walked into the right place.
I’m a busy mom, I run this website, a full producing homestead with livestock, and I work outside the home… but I”m not going to sacrifice the health of my family, and neither should you. And with this homemade crackers recipe you get the best of both worlds.
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Round Pizza Stone– this things works great for crackers and cookies, pizza too.
Pizza cutter– it makes cutting the crackers a breeze, especially if you happen to have the inability to cut straight lines….
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Measure your dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl, including your favorite spices for flavoring.
Cut in the butter.
Add your liquid, stir until just combined. Dump out your cracker dough onto your slightly floured baking sheet or baking stone.
Roll thin and cut crackers into desired shapes. You can also make the crackers into fancy with cookie cutters. Sprinkle with sea salt.
Some people like to roll the cracker dough between two sheets of parchment paper to get it super thin.
Bake for 1o minutes.
If you happen to have any left (which is unlikely) and need to store them, allow them to cool fully. Place inside an air tight container. A Mason jar with the canning lid and band tightened down tight works great and they’ll stay crispy for up to 5 days. (Probably longer but that’s the very longest they’ve lasted before we’ve eaten them all).
P.P.S. you shared this homemade cracker recipe with your friends, right? Whew, I knew you were an awesome friend.
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There you have it, how to make homemade crackers in just a few minutes! Which flavor variation are you trying first?
Melissa K. Norris inspires people's faith and pioneer roots with her books, podcast, and blog. Melissa lives with her husband and two children in their own little house in the big woods in the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains. When she's not wrangling chickens and cattle, you can find her stuffing Mason jars with homegrown food and playing with flour and sugar in the kitchen.
