The most crucial ingredient when making homemade crackers is flour. Flour is the base of cracker dough, and without it, crackers cannot be created. When choosing which flour to use for crackers, it largely depends on your dietary restrictions. Enriched, grain free and gluten free flours can all be used to create delicious crackers. And with each flour, a new taste is created. That being said, certain flours are used more often than others. Here's a list of our favorite flours that make crackers with the perfect crispy texture.
When making any dough, there should be a healthy balance of wet and dry ingredients. One of the most important wet ingredients in a cracker recipe is oil. When mixed with water and flour, oil helps keep your baking recipes moist. It does this by capturing the released gases and slowing down gluten formation to create foods with a perfect texture. While there are several different baking oils on shelves, when making crackers, two of the most common are olive oil and coconut oil. Let's take a look at each.
To ensure that your homemade crackers taste delicious, you'll want to add a few seasonings to the recipe. Salt, black pepper and nutritional yeast are just a few of the many cracker seasonings commonly added to dough. Continue reading to learn more about these ingredients to better decide which to incorporate into your following recipe.
Aside from seasonings, add-ins are another excellent way to flavor a cracker recipe. Add ins can be incorporated into the recipe itself or used as a topping after the crackers have fully baked. Add-ins like sunflower seeds and flax seeds are an excellent way to add a bit of crunch to your crackers while also loading them up on important nutritional properties like healthy fats and protein.
A few of our favorite cracker add-ins include:
Now that you know more about the ingredients used to make homemade crackers, it's time for you to decide which to use in your next crispy cracker recipe. From choosing the flour to selecting add-ins, creating crackers from scratch provides you with an opportunity to customize them to your personal taste preferences. From sweet to salty, there are hundreds of cracker recipes out there just waiting for you to give them a shot. Don't believe us? Check out our favorite cracker recipes and bake the one that sounds best to you. We're confident that you'll be happy with the outcome. From everyone at Bob's Red Mill, have a healthy and happy day!
Have a secret ingredient you love adding to your homemade crackers? Wed love to hear more about it. Let us know how you flavor homemade crackers in the comments below.
