crackers - cheese crackers

By tinathorn

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup all purpose gluten-free flour (bean flour blends and sorghum work best with this recipe, should work with most gf flour+starch blends)
• 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1/4 teaspoon salt (optional, if you like salty crackers)
• 1 1/2 cups cheddar (about 6-8 oz)**
• 4 tablespoons cold butter, cut into 1 inch pieces
• extra salt for sprinkling (optional)

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from glutenfreepalate.com

Preparation

Step 1

~ Makes about 2 cups

Preheat your oven to 350ºF. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.

In a food processor, pulse the gluten-free flour blend, xanthan gum and salt. Add the butter pieces and cheese. Pulse together until it forms a ball (about 2 minutes). If you don’t have a food processor, you can do it by hand. It may require a little extra work, kneading and/or get messy. But you can still blend the ingredients.

Place the ball between two pieces of wax paper, and roll it out to about 1/4″ to 1/8″ thick.

Using a pastry wheel or pizza cutter, cut into 1″ shapes/squares. Carefully peal them and place on a parchment lined baking sheet about 1/2″ apart. Poke each cracker with a fork to prevent over-puffing. Sprinkle with salt, if desired (I like the extra salt).

I believe that cooking and baking gluten-free should be fun and easy. Recipes shouldn't require extravagant ingredients or rigorous steps. They should be easy to make and take less than an hour to cook or bake. You will find a variety of gluten-free recipes on this site, including some recipes that are grain-free, dairy-free and vegan. I hope you enjoy each of them.