Homemade Crackers
Easy to make with ingredients you already have. Fun for kids. Great with soup, jam or a stand-alone snack
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- rolling pin
- cookie cutter
- toothpick
- pastry brush
- lined cookie sheet
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2-3 tsp spices of your choosing
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cracked pepper
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 cup water
- course salt
- more oil for brushing
Instructions
- Mix together your flour, sugar, baking powder, salt/pepper, and spices of your choosing in your mixing bowl.
- Make a well in the center of your flour and add oil and water.
- Incorportate the oil and water into the flour mixture until it forms a ball of dough. If the dough is too wet, add small amounts of flour until you are able to make a dough ball. You want the dough to still be somewhat tacky.
- Onto a floured surface, roll out your dough evenly and very thin, no more than 1/4 inch thick.
- Use cookie cutter (or pizza cutter or knife) to cut out your crackers.
- Transfer crackers to a lined cookie sheet.
- Use a toothpick to "prick" each cracker 3-5 times each.
- Using pastry brush, brush oil onto each cracker.
- Sprinkle the crackers with course salt.
- Bake in oven at 400 degrees F for 12 minutes.
- Allow crackers to cool and store on counter in sealed container. These crackers do not have preservatives in them and the humidity in your home could affect how long they can be kept. Store in fridge if you need to store them for more than a few days.