If you love crackers, then you'll likely want to enjoy them often. Luckily, there is a wide array of cracker recipes just waiting to be baked—crackers that range in flavor from sweet and crispy to savory and salty. While savory varieties are often enjoyed as a cracker appetizer, sweet crackers are enjoyed as a dessert. If you're looking to switch up your weekly snack routine, we're here to help. Continue reading as we share our favorite sweet cracker recipes.
Why Snack on Crackers?
With a recipe customized to your taste preferences, both sweet and savory crackers can serve as a way to curb your cravings and keep you from overdoing it during meals. Another reason we love snacking on crackers is that they're incredibly portable. Munch on them around the house, serve them up as an appetizer (or dessert) or pack them in your kid's lunch box. No matter how you serve this snack, it is sure to be delicious.
Sweet Cracker Recipes
If you're ready to begin baking a sweet cracker recipe, we're here to help. Below are a few of our favorite recipes, complete with instructions on how to bake them.
Graham Crackers
Anyone who has tried graham crackers before is bound to be a fan. A whole wheat sweet cookie used in baked goods and making S'mores, graham crackers are the ideal dessert. As the name suggests, graham crackers are made from graham flour, which is a flour comparable to whole wheat. Though both flours are made from whole grain, graham flour is slightly more coarse. Simple to make, graham crackers only require a few ingredients that many bakers already have on hand.
Homemade Graham Crackers
To make delicious graham crackers at home, try making this Homemade Graham Cracker recipe. Few things taste better than delicious, freshly baked graham crackers straight from the oven. Full of buttery goodness, these crackers are made using whole wheat flour that's loaded with nutrients. Because of this, it's a treat that you can feel good about snacking on. Or, if you're feeling extra creative, break these crackers up and turn them into a flavor-filled homemade graham cracker pie crust.
Gluten Free Graham Crackers
For a grain free alternative to the delicious graham cracker recipe above, make these Gluten Free Graham Crackers. We're confident that once you bake up a batch of these crackers, you'll never want to purchase the store-bought ones again. Ideal for S'mores, when dipped in chocolate or to snack on as is, they're a low allergen snack that's perfect to pack on your next camping trip. You can also serve them up as a sweet dessert at a backyard BBQ!
Tip: to create a vegan version of these crackers, swap out the honey for molasses. When doing so, be sure to leave the water out of the dough before adding molasses to it. This will help make sure your crackers have the right amount of moisture in them. Then, top them with cinnamon and sugar, and voila! You have a delicious vegan graham cracker.
Gingerbread S'mores Cookie Bars
When we said you could turn crackers into a delicious dessert, we meant it. By crushing crackers, you can turn them into a dessert ingredient that adds a unique flavor and texture to your favorite baked goods. So whether you're preparing for the holidays or want to bake up a sweet treat that friends and family will love, these Gingerbread S'mores Cookie Bars are sure to do the trick. Ideal when you don't have the time to shape, bake and decorate gingerbread men, these cracker-infused cookies are quick to make. Made with graham cracker crumbs, Unbleached White All-Purpose Flour, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, it's a dessert guaranteed to boost the spirit of any party.
Montana Huckleberry S'mores Oatmeal
Oatmeal is a powerful food. Great for your body and brain, there's no denying that it is one of the best health foods you can consume. That being said, many of us have never thought to pair oatmeal with crackers. But, if you're a fan of savory treats, then crushing savory crackers into your afternoon bowl of oats is a quick way to boost its texture.
However, if you crave something sweet upon waking up, sweet crackers and oatmeal pair perfectly. With the right recipe, sweet crackers can be enjoyed as a satisfying breakfast. This easy-to-make Montana Huckleberry S'mores Oatmeal recipe is the ideal way to curb your sugar cravings at the start of the day. Made with steel-cut oats, fresh huckleberries, crushed graham crackers, and marshmallow fluff, it's a recipe so good you'll want to serve seconds.
Gluten and Dairy Free Animal Crackers
With a crunch like crackers and the sweetness of a cookie, animal crackers have been brightening up the smiles of children and adults for years. A treat that's loved worldwide, finding animal crackers at grocery stores can be quite the challenge. Luckily this nostalgic and addictive treat can be made in your kitchen at home. By using just a few ingredients like Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour and baking powder, these low allergen Gluten and Dairy Free Animal Crackers are grain free, dairy free and ideal for those with food allergies. In addition, the fun variety of zoo animals and colorful addition of sprinkles make it a family favorite that your children will be asking for time and time again.
Flours to Use in Cracker Recipes
When baking these recipes, using the right flour for crackers is essential. Depending on the type of flour you use, your crackers will turn out crispy, soft, or crunchy. To help you choose the perfect flour for all of your cracker baking adventures, read on for our top recommendations.
Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour
Whether you're gluten free or cooking for someone who is, this gluten free flour is sure to help you on your baking journey. While this flour was initially designed for quick breads, it can create so much more. The ideal flour to create cookies, brownies, muffins and crackers, after using it just once, it's sure to become a pantry staple. Wondering what makes this gluten free flour so great? At Bob's Red Mill, our Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour is made from the highest quality ingredients like sweet rice flour, brown rice flour and whole-grain sorghum flour. When mixed at the perfect ratio, it makes this flour one everyone can enjoy, even those with celiac disease.
Organic Whole Wheat Flour
Now, if you don't have a gluten allergy, then wheat-based flours are perfectly fine to eat—and actually, they're pretty great for you. Our Organic Whole Wheat Flour is 100% stone ground from hard red spring wheat. This being so, it has all of the nutrients of the bran still intact. A high protein and certified organic flour, it's excellent when baking sweet or savory treats, especially crackers. The gluten in the wheat will help bind all of the ingredients together, and the result will be a crispy and flavorful cracker that you can't get enough of.
Organic Unbleached White All-Purpose Flour
Arguably the most common flour used to make crackers, our Organic Unbleached White All-Purpose Flour is sure to surprise you. Unlike other all purpose flours, ours is made from freshly milled, organic hard red wheat. Unbleached, unenriched and free of potassium bromate, it's sure to be the healthiest option on the shelf. Use it to make sweet cracker recipes like the ones listed above, or turn this flour into a more savory cracker treat. No matter how you end up using it, we're confident that the outcome will be delicious.
Coconut Flour
If you're searching for a tasty alternative to grain-based flours, then coconut flour will quickly become your new favorite. An easy way to add flavor to any recipe, our organic coconut flour is made from the highest quality coconuts. So whether you're making tropical-flavored crackers or sweet ones, you can feel great about snacking on them all day long. Just make sure that other ingredients are just as healthy!
Making sweet-flavored crackers at home is an excellent way to switch up snack time. An ideal dessert for both adults and children, the cracker recipes above will have everyone praising your baking skills. To make a cracker that suits your family's dietary needs, be sure to view the different flour options before deciding which recipe to make. From gluten free to vegan and soy free, the many different cracker variations you can create are endless!
Whether you plan on making cracker candy or covering a crispy cracker recipe in cinnamon sugar, there are endless ways to enjoy a buttery dough. Once you have your dough recipe down, feel free to get creative with toppings and mix-ins. Chopped pecans, melted chocolate, brown sugar and peanut butter chips are all fun additions to any sweet cracker treat.
Have a sweet cracker that your friends and family love? Tell us more about it in the comments below. We can't wait to hear from you. From everyone at Bob's Red Mill, we wish you a sweet and flavor-filled day!
