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Homemade Graham Crackers

Homemade Graham Crackers are quite easy to make with ingredients you probably already have in your pantry.

Homemade Graham Crackers from Curious Cuisiniere

One of my go-to after school snacks in grade school was graham crackers. In particular, graham crackers spread with peanut butter and topped with raisins.

It was the perfect sweet, salty, nutty and crunchy treat.

It kind of blew my mind when I first saw a recipe for homemade graham crackers. But then, there was a downfall.

What was graham flour? And, where the heck did you find it?

What is Graham Flour?

Turns out graham flour is a type of whole wheat flour where the three parts of the wheat berry (the germ, the bran and the endosperm), that would typically be ground together, are ground separately with the germ and bran ground fairly coarse and the endosperm ground very fine. The three parts are then mixed back together, resulting in a coarse textured, whole wheat flour.

So, basically graham flour is just a whole wheat flour.

What!?

All those years they made me think I needed something special, different, and expensive to make such a simple comfort food. And the answer has been on my shelf the whole time!

Making Homemade Graham Crackers

Flavor wise, by using whole wheat flour, particularly a coarser ground whole wheat flour, you will find that graham cracker taste.

The texture depends on personal preference. Whole wheat flour by nature is a bit coarser, so by using a mixture of whole wheat and white whole wheat, we were able to give these crackers the perfect flavor with a texture that was both smooth and slightly grainy like the store-bought crackers.

If you don’t have white whole wheat flour, you could substitute unbleached all purpose flour, however we would suggest using 1/2 c all purpose with 1 1/2 c whole wheat, just to keep the flavors and textures as close as possible.

Homemade Graham Crackers from Curious Cuisiniere

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Homemade Graham Crackers

Homemade Graham Crackers are quite easy to make with ingredients you probably already have in your pantry.
Yield: 32 (3 ½ x 4 ½ inch) cookies
Prep Time50 minutes
Cook Time18 minutes
Total Time1 hour 8 minutes
Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Servings: 16 people
Calories: 118kcal
Author: Sarah | Curious Cuisiniere

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Mix flours, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in the bowl of your food processor. Add butter and pulse until the mixture looks like wet sand.*
  • Add brown sugar, honey and milk. Pulse to mix, until the dough comes together.
  • Divide the dough into four even pieces. Place one section of dough onto a piece of parchment paper and shape it into a rectangle. Cover the dough with another piece of parchment paper and roll the dough out to a 7 ½ x 9 ½ inch rectangle. (It should be about 1/8 inch thick.) Place the rolled out (and still covered) dough into the freezer on a flat surface. Repeat with the remaining three sections of dough.
  • Chill the dough in the freezer for 20-30 min.
  • Preheat your oven to 350F.
  • Remove the dough from the freezer, one section at a time. Remove the top layer of parchment paper and cut each rectangle into 8 individual cookies (being careful not to cut through the parchment paper). Decorate each cookie as desired using a skewer or a fork.
  • Place the cut cookies, on their parchment paper, onto a baking sheet.
  • Repeat with the remaining three sections of dough.
  • Once all the cookies have been cut, place them into the oven and bake for 18-20 minutes, until the top begins to darken. (Check often towards the end of the cooking time. They darken quite quickly towards the end.)
  • Remove the cookies from the pan to cool on a wire rack. (These cookies will be quite crisp as they are cooling, but they will soften up a bit as they stand. So, don't worry if you think you have over baked them. They will soften.)

Notes

*If you don’t have a food processor, cut the butter into the flour mixture using two forks or a pastry blender. Add the remaining ingredients and mix knead by hand until the dough comes together.

Nutrition

Serving: 2cookies | Calories: 118kcal

 

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Cindy Kerschner

Tuesday 19th of August 2014

Your cracker look perfect! I'd love some with a cold glass of milk!

theninjabaker

Tuesday 19th of August 2014

Thank you, Sarah, for sharing this recipe...My inner child thanks you too =) Your recipe appears completely doable and I am hoping to replicate this childhood fave soon!

Sarah

Tuesday 19th of August 2014

Wonderful! We hope you enjoy it!

shaywiz

Monday 18th of August 2014

Now I want to go make s'mores...

Simply Gourmet

Sunday 17th of August 2014

Your graham crackers look perfect! So thin too. I know my daughter will want me to make these for her.

taranoland

Sunday 17th of August 2014

Great idea, never thought of making these. You can put in all healthy ingredients!! Thanks for the recipe!!

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