Homemade Cheez-It Crackers Recipe

With just a handful of ingredients, you can make this copycat Cheez-It Crackers at home! Kid-approved and made with all real ingredients. Switch up the cheese and add some seasoning to make these homemade cheese crackers your own!

Course copycat recipe, crackers, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword Cheese crackers, Homemade Cheez-It Crackers Recipe, how to make Homemade Cheez-It Crackers

Prep Time 1 15

Cook Time 12

Servings

Calories 225kcal

Author Lauren

Ingredients

1 tsp Kosher or Sea Salt
1 cup Flour will work with white or whole wheat flour
2 tbsp Ice Cold Water
8 ounces Shredded Cheddar Cheese
2 tbsp cold Butter cut into small pieces
2 tbsp Shortening if you do not have shortening you can use 2 tbsp of butter instead of the shortening

Instructions

In a food processor, blender, mixer, or a bowl with a hand mixer, mix the cheese, butter, shortening and salt together until blended. Then slowly add the flour. If you are using a mixer make sure it is on low speed or you will have flour flying everywhere.
Your dough will be dry after adding in the flour, so add in the water gradually just until your dough comes together in a ball.
Round out the ball of dough and wrap it in saran wrap. Refrigerate for one hour.
Get out your baking sheets and then after an hour remove the dough from the fridge and preheat your oven to 375.
Line your baking sheets with parchment paper and sprinkle flour on whatever area you are going to be working on.
Place your dough on your floured area and with your rolling pin roll your dough to be less than 1/8 inch thick.
Using a pastry cutter cut them into 1" squares (the easiest way is to just make lines if you do not have a pastry cutter a pizza cutter should work just fine).
Then use a skewer or toothpick to put a hole in the center of each cracker.
Place crackers onto your prepared baking sheet, this is a step the kiddos can do while you finish up cutting the crackers out. sprinkle with salt and then bake for 12-15 minutes or until light brown at the edges.
Transfer to a cooling rack to cool.

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