How to Make Homemade Crackers in 5 Minutes

Name: How to Make Homemade Crackers in 5 Minutes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: varies
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups flour (whole wheat, fresh ground, or all-purpose); 1/4 teaspoon onion powder; 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder; 1/4 teaspoon chili powder; 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika (regular paprika works fine, too); 4 Tablespoons butter; 1/4 cup water; 1 Tablespoon honey; Sea salt to sprinkle on top

By Melissa Norris | Bread

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Feb 06

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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.

People want to serve their family homemade foods, free of chemicals and preservatives. I want to make sure you can do that! You landed here because you’re busy, but you don’t want to sacrifice your health and it’s my mission to help you.

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serve it up in less than 15 minutes of hands on time, ain’t no one got extra time

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!

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How to Make Homemade Crackers

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.

Homemade Cracker Recipe Notes:

If you don’t roll the cracker dough thin enough, they won’t be crunchy, but still delectable.
The edges will be thinner, remove them and bake remaining crackers for another 2 minutes.
Leave crackers on baking sheet to cool, they’ll crisp up as they cool
To make these a soaked traditional recipe, add 1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar to the recipe and let sit for 8 to 12 hours before rolling out.

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