Thin Wheat Crackers: Easy!!!

We rely heavily on snacks. Kids NEED snacks. But what to give them? If it was up to Rose, the girls would have chocolate cake and ice cream for every snack. But mostly they get gold-fish, crackers, cheese, and fruit. In an attempt to make more things at home, and the fact that it's spring break, we made our own crackers.

This recipe comes from King Arther's Flour Baker's Companion.

What you're going to need:

Ingredients:

1 cup un-bleached all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup a sugar
1/4 cup sesame seeds
4 tbsp butter
About 1/2 cup milk
Coarse salt

Tools:

one large bowl
spoon
rolling pin
cooking sheet

Let's get started! This is super easy. You should do this!

Mix all the dry ingredients except the coarse salt

This is a good opportunity to get the kiddos involved in making their own food.

Cut in the butter (4 tbsps of non salted stick butter)

Add milk a little at a time until the batter is workable

Separate the dough into 3 pieces
Roll out the dough to about 1/16" thickness

 Cut dough into 1-1 1/2" squares

Remember they don't have to be perfect!

Preheat the oven to 325F

Place the crackers on a lightly greased or parchment paper lined cookie sheet

Cook from 20-25 minutes

DO NOT USE THE LOWEST RACK! All of those crackers burned.

Take out and let cool on a wire rack.

Eat the crackers by themselves...

Or add sliced cherry tomatoes with mozzarella cheese for a special snack. Pop in the oven to warm at 300F.

Save the rest for snacks for the rest of the week.

Yum yum yum!