Graham Crackers

Homemade graham crackers are the best especially for graham cracker crusts. You can cut these with cutters, just bake them in a sheet, or you can slice them into thin rectangles and poke them with a fork to look like the boxed kind. No need to separate them before baking. You can break them apart when they're cool.

And you can and should use these to make the best ever Graham cracker pie crust too!

Course Cookies and Bars

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 15

Chill Time 1

Total Time 1 30

Servings Cookies

Calories 83kcal

Author Jennifer Field

Equipment

Ingredients

1 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 ½ cups whole wheat (or Graham) flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt or to taste
8 oz butter 2 sticks
5 oz dark brown sugar (you can use light, if that's what you have)
2 Tablespoon honey

Instructions

Thoroughly whisk together dry ingredients.
Cream butter, brown sugar and honey until smooth. It doesn't need to be light and fluffy. Just smooth.
Add the dry ingredients and mix on low until the dough just comes together.
Remove from mixer and roll out between two sheets of parchment to about 1/8" thickness.
Chill this sheet of dough for an hour.
Optional: Sprinkle your crackers with cinnamon sugar before baking, if you want.
Bake on parchment-lined cookie sheet/s at 350 degrees, F, until golden and firm--the timing depends on if you've cut them apart or are baking them as one humongous cookie.
Allow to cool completely, then break the cookies apart or just crumble them or whir them in a food processor to make crumbs.

Notes

Storing

Your Grahams will last in a sealed container at room temperature for about a week. If they do start to soften, you can refresh them in a 350F for 2-3 minutes. Cookies will recrisp as they cool.

Freezing

If you'd like, you can freeze the sheeted dough and save to bake some other time. Well wrapped, it will be fine for a month or even two.

To Make a Graham Cracker Crust

To make your Graham crust, take some graham crumbs (usually 1 1/2-2 cups is sufficient for a 9" crust) and mix them with 2-3 Tablespoons of butter and the optional ground nuts until it just holds together. Then, press it into the pie pan and bake at 350 degrees, F, for about 8-10 minutes to set the crust.

Variations

Try experimenting with adding different spices. They're your cookies, and wouldn't ginger Grahams be delicious? Or pumpkin spice?

Tip

If you make a lot of crumb crusts, go ahead and blitz the whole batch up after baking then freeze the crumbs for the next time you need them. Measure out the amount you need and pulse with a little butter and a pinch of salt, then press into your pan.

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