Cheese crackers: a step by step recipe for cooking. What can be made from cheese crackers?

Cracker is a type of cookie. It is based on flour, butter (vegetable or cream) and eggs. Classic crackers sprinkle or crumble in salt. There are also cookies with various additives: caraway, pepper, paprika, cheese, tomato, sugar, chocolate, poppy seeds, dried fruits, nuts and even a banana.

Initially, cookies were cheap, they served as a lean substitute for bread, in the composition had only flour and water. Later they began to put butter, sugar, salt and other additives in them.

Serve crackers with cottage cheese, cheese, jam, jam, honey and drink tea, compote, milk or kefir. In general, a flight of fancy!

Cheese Cookies

This article will focus on cheese crackers. They differ from ordinary ones by the presence of cheese or cottage cheese in their composition. They are salty, the color is slightly yellower than the classic ones, have a pronounced cheese flavor. If desired, finely chopped greens, caraway seeds, paprika, sesame seeds, dried basil or other seasonings to your taste can be added to them.

Step-by-step recipe for cheese crackers at home

Such crackers are delicious cookies that are quickly swept off the table. They are tender and crispy, a little oily, with a bright cheesy taste. Cheese crackers will appeal to children, especially if they are similar in shape to animals. They can be offered to men as snacks for beer, and to schoolchildren as snacks for a snack.

So, for cooking you will need the following ingredients:

• 1 1/5 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt;
• 1/4 teaspoon of paprika;
• 1/8 teaspoon of garlic powder;
• 4 tablespoons of cold unsalted butter;
• 160-170 grams of extra-sharp cheddar cheese (you can take any other cheese, but the taste will not be so bright);
• 2 tablespoons of cold water;
• fine salt, for boning (optional).

Attention! In this recipe for cheese crackers, all ingredients must be cold. It is necessary:

1. Place flour, salt, paprika, garlic powder and butter in a large bowl. Set aside.
2. Grate cheese in a food processor equipped with a chopping disc, or on a grater.
3. Combine cheese with flour mixture, mix.
4. Pound the mixture of flour, cheese and butter into coarse crumbs. The easiest way to do this is with a food processor.
5. Gradually adding water, knead the dough until an elastic ball is formed.
6. Place the dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll it into a rectangle 3-4 mm thick. Check that it fits on a standard baking sheet.
7. Fold the dough without releasing the parchment and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
8. Remove the top sheet of parchment paper. Use a ruler and a pizza cutter to cut out squares from dough of any size. Use the end of a wooden skewer to make small holes in the cookie. This will prevent bubbling after baking. (You can use molds in the form of animals, geometric shapes, etc.)
9. Transfer about half of the crackers to a parchment coated baking sheet, leaving a few millimeters between each cracker. (Chill the remaining dough). If desired, lightly sprinkle crackers with salt.
10. Bake cheese crackers until the bottom and sides of the cookies are podgolot and the top becomes dry (10 to 12 minutes). Transfer the crackers to a plate and refrigerate. Bake the remaining cookies in the same way.

How to keep cheese crackers crispy?

To keep crackers crunchy after baking, displacing excess moisture that can cause mold, do not turn off the oven immediately after baking the last batch of cookies. Put the crackers on a baking sheet, return them to the cooling oven, “dry” there overnight, at least for at least 8 hours.

Storage Features

To keep your crackers crispy and tasty, store them in an airtight container in a dry, dark place. There they will remain crispy for a week, and maybe longer. It is difficult to say, because, as a rule, such things do not settle for a long time, but are swept away in a few days.

You can see in the photo cheese crackers cooked according to this recipe.

Where to use crackers?

Using crackers, you can prepare many delicious and interesting dishes. Crackers are used as shortcakes for sweet and snack cakes, for example, with cheese crackers, you can prepare a snack cake with red fish, cottage cheese and soft cheese. As a basis, these small cookies can be used for canapes, served at a buffet with different spreads - it looks very impressive, it is simple to prepare, and it tastes delicious!

Also, crackers can be crushed in a blender and used to prepare the bases for cheesecakes without baking, chocolate sausages, "potato" cakes and other desserts. Also, cookie crumbs can be used to decorate cakes and rolls.

In general, you can use crackers in many dishes, there is where to unfold your imagination! Remember that, having prepared crackers yourself, you will be 100% sure of their quality, with a calm soul, offer a dish of them to children and the whole family.