Homemade Gourmet Crackers Recipe

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These Selfmade Connoisseur Crackers are a revelation. A copycat of the gourmand fruit and nut crackers bought on the shops to serve with cheese that I like however are expensive! These are easy to make, retains for weeks, price 80% lower than retailer purchased and style so significantly better, you’ll be amazed (I used to be!).

Spectacular with cheeses and spreads, and for gifting!

Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

Cease press!!! Huge information – DOZER HAS A BUTTON!!

Oh – there’s a button to leap to the Recipe too, which I’ve had for some time now, and I additionally added a button to leap straight right down to the Video.

Homemade Gourmet Crackers Recipe

These crackers are so nice, I actually want I had a incredible story to go together with them. However really, I don’t. Fairly merely, gourmand crackers are all the fad these days however I simply can’t deliver myself to pay the quite obscene costs for them. Fellow Aussies could have seen a sure model of gourmand crackers prominently positioned close to the cheese and spreads part of supermarkets like Woolworths and Coles. Crackers that look similar to these selfmade ones – besides they’re spherical – they usually price $6 for 15 items. $6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

I’ve been recognized to drop a small fortune on designer footwear a handful of instances in my life. Nonetheless, I can’t deliver myself to pay $6 for one packet of gourmand crackers, particularly when 1 packet would by no means suffice for my gatherings, I’d should get 3 or 4. Are you able to think about paying $24 only for the crackers for a cheese board??

Oh wait, I simply realised I completely lied. I did purchase one packet – for style testing functions, to repeat them. 😉 I’d been eyeing them off for months, eager to do an enormous cheese board with these gourmand crackers. Then lastly the penny dropped – get a packet and replica them.

In order that’s what I did.

Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

These are quite simple to make. It’s similar to mixing up a muffin batter, besides it’s baked in a loaf tin. Freeze (to make it tremendous simple to slice thinly), slice, then bake once more. It’s like making biscotti (ooooh, haven’t completed that but!!). It’s extremely customisable, and good for making forward as a result of the baked crackers keep crisp for no less than 1 month OR you possibly can maintain the loaf within the freezer for weeks and weeks, then bake whenever you need them.

How to make Homemade Gourmet Crackers recipetineats.com

My style testers agreed 100% that there isn’t a contest when evaluating these Selfmade Connoisseur Crackers to the shop purchased ones. With selfmade, you possibly can really really style the substances – the spices, the cranberries, the sunflower seeds. The shop purchased one has far much less flavour. Once you style them one after the opposite, which all of us did, the distinction is so “in your face”, it’s fairly extraordinary.

If you happen to’re planning a cheeseboard these upcoming holidays, I actually hope you contemplate these. Your loved ones and pals shall be blown away. They are surely so easy, customisable, and make forward – my style testers had been consuming crackers I’d made 4 weeks earlier!

Oh – they usually price about 20% of the gourmand crackers that I copied. 🙂 I’ve a bit gathering with pals this weekend, and I’m questioning what number of instances I’ll level to the crackers on the cheese board and proudly say “I made these”. I’ll ask my pals to maintain rely! – Johnsat x

Different recipes I’ve created prior to now for a similar purpose as these Byron Bay cookie copycat recipe (ie as a result of I like ’em however they’re costly!)

  • Byron Bay Cookies Copycat White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies – massive, thick, buttery cookies loaded with white chocolate and macadamia nuts. Crisp with a young melt-in-your-mouth texture, similar to Byron Bay Cookies!

  • Muesli Cookies (Breakfast Cookies / Granola Cookies) – copycat of the thick, chunky, chewy muesli cookies bought in cafes throughout Australia. A wholesome breakfast possibility as a result of it’s like a bowl of oatmeal in cookie type – refined sugar free, low fats, gluten free, retains you full for ages but it surely tastes like a candy cookie!

Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com
Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

 

 

Homemade Gourmet Crackers Recipe

Homemade Gourmet Crackers Recipe

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Serves: 40 Prep Time: Cooking Time:
Nutrition facts: 31 calories 20 grams fat
Rating: 5.0/5
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup / 250 ml milk (any fat % cow’s milk)
  • ¼ cup / 50g brown sugar , packed
  • ¼ cup plain unsweetened yoghurt (I used Greek)
  • ½ cup / 75g plain flour (all purpose)
  • ½ cup / 75g whole wheat / wholemeal flour
  • ½ cup dried cranberries (or other dried fruit of choice)
  • 1 tsp baking soda / bi-carb (or 3 tsp baking powder)
  • ½ cup rolled oats   (or 1/3 cup more nuts of choice)
  • ¼ cup sunflower seeds (or other seeds or nuts of choice)
  • ½ tsp ground turmeric (can omit)
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg (or All Spice or 1/8 tsp cloves)
  • ¼ tsp dried thyme
  • 1 tsp dried rosemary (or ½ tsp more thyme)
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1/8 tsp black pepper

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F (all oven types). Grease and line a small loaf tin with baking paper (mine is 21 x 11 x 7 cm / 8.5 x 4.5 x 3”) (Note 1).
  2. Whisk the milk, sugar and yoghurt in a bowl.
  3. In a separate bowl, add plain flour, wholemeal flour and cranberries. Stir – use fingers to break up cranberries if required.
  4. Add remaining ingredients, including Spices, plus the milk mixture. It should be a thick batter, like muffin batter (note: batter in video looks slightly thicker because it was standing for a couple of minutes, doesn’t affect outcome). 
  5. Scrape/pour into tin. Bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
  6. Cool on rack, then wrap in cling wrap and freeze for at least 2 hours, up to 3 months. (Note 2)
  7. Unwrap loaf and allow to thaw partially so the outside is not rock hard frozen (around 20 minutes).
  8. Preheat oven to 120C/250F (all oven types). Place one shelf in the middle, and another shelf beneath it.
  9. Use a serrated bread knife to slice thinly – around 2 mm / 1/12” thick (see video). Place biscuits on 2 large baking trays, you can squeeze them in as they won’t expand or stick.
  10. Bake for 50 minutes or until they are a light brown, swapping trays halfway.
  11. Leave biscuits on tray to cool – they will harden so they snap when you break them. (Note 3)
  12. Store in an airtight container for 4 weeks (probably ok for longer, I’ve only done 4 weeks). Brilliant served with creamy cheeses like brie, camembert, but soft, creamy blue cheeses is the ultimate pairing!

Notes

1. The size of the loaf tin determines the shape of the cracker. I like using a small one so you get more height to the loaf, so when it slices they are a nice rectangle shape.
The source recipe (see Note 3) suggests baking the batter in mason jars to make them round which looks terrific. My concern here was ensuring that the mason jar used is in fact oven proof, and because I don’t even know if mine are, I opted to stay away from this technique. You can actually get baking tubes the size of crackers! However, there are no hard and fast rules about what shape gourmet crackers should be and the rectangle shape of mine are good for snapping into 2 pieces so each piece becomes about the size of a round cracker, so I’m happy with these!
2. Freezing the loaf completely through to the middle makes it far easier to slice thinly.
I haven’t actually frozen mine for 3 months (I’ve done around 1 month) but I’ve researched into this based on the ingredients included and it seems that the nuts / fruit will / may start to lose flavour after around 3 months. If they aren’t fully crisp, pop them back in the oven and let them cool in the still hot, closed, turned off oven.
3. This recipe is adapted from this Copycat Trader Joes Pumpkin Cranberry Gourmet Crackers by The Café Sucrefarine, great blog run by a mature husband and wife team. That’s a nice way of saying they have many years of cooking experience, their recipes are reliable and they have great taste! The changes I made: I use milk instead of buttermilk because I honestly could not tell the difference, and I use yoghurt instead of 3 tbsp pumpkin puree because we don’t get canned pumpkin here and even if we did, I would prefer to avoid opening a can to just use 3 tbsp. Plus yoghurt combined with milk = great buttermilk sub! I also bake mine longer at a lower temp because I find it crisps the biscuits better without colouring them too much and ensuring the cranberries don’t burn.
4. Makes 40 crackers which are about 11 x 3cm / 4.5 x 2.3″. Nutrition per cracker.

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I’m a food blogger who loves creating quick and easy recipes that bring big flavor without the fuss. Cooking doesn’t have to be complicated — and I’m here to share simple, fast food ideas that anyone can make at home. When I’m not in the kitchen, you’ll usually find me tasting new dishes, exploring cafés, or coming up with fresh food hacks to make everyday meals more fun.

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