Homemade Cheese Crackers
Ditch the store bought crackers and try these tasty homemade ones instead. Made with real cheese and simple ingredients.
Servings: 85 small crackers
Calories: 14kcal
Equipment
- 1 Food Processor
Ingredients
- 45g (½ cup) quinoa flakes * can sub with rolled oats.
- ½ tbsp sesame seeds
- 50g (3 ½ tbsp) butter ,cut into small cubes, unsalted best for younger kids.
- 75g (¾ cup) cheddar cheese ,finely grated (shredded)
- 65g (½ cup) all purpose flour (plain flour)
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- 1½ tbsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C (fan)/ 350℉ and line a baking sheet with baking paper.
- Add the quinoa flakes and sesame seeds to a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Add the butter, cheese, flour and baking powder and pulse until crumbly.
- Add the milk and continue to process until the mixture comes together.
- Gently knead the dough on a floured surface and then roll, between sheets of baking paper, until approx 5mm (¼ inch) thick.
- Cut out desired shapes using cookie cutters, pizza cuter or fluted pastry wheel.
- Bake for approx. 12 mins, or until lightly golden.
- Allow to cool for approx 2 mins before transferring to racks to completely cool.
Video
Notes
Cheese: The amount of cheese used is lower than many cheese cracker recipes to reduce sodium levels lower for little ones. If not making for little ones you can increase the cheese used (even double it) if you wish or add a little salt to bring out cheese flavour.
Cook time: Cooking time will vary depending on the thickness and size of crackers. Keep an eye on the crackers from 10 mins into baking time and they can go from golden to burnt quickly.
Texture: the thickness of the dough will result in different textures. For crispy crackers roll thinner and softer crackers, ideal for little ones, roll thicker. Play around!
Nutritional information is a ROUGH guide only, calculated using an online nutrition calculator. Facts are for 1 small cracker when it makes 85.
Nutrition
Calories: 14kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 0.4g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.05g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Trans Fat: 0.02g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 12mg | Potassium: 4mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 0.1g | Vitamin A: 27IU | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 0.1mg