Crunchy 5 Ingredient Cheese Crackers

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These crunchy 5 ingredient cheese crackers are made using yoghurt dough! If you don't already know and love this dough, then now is the time to get on the bandwagon! Super easy to make and easy to shape, you'll have a batch made in no time! Great for lunchboxes, snack time and your next cheese plate.

5 ingredient crackers on a cooling rack and in a lunchbox with tomatoes, cheese, cranberries and broccoli

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1 Why you're going to love these crackers

2 What goes into the recipe

3 How to make this recipe

4 Expert Tips and FAQs

5 More great savoury snacks

6 Crunchy 5 ingredient cheese crackers

Why you're going to love these crackers

Yoghurt dough-It's a super simple combination of yoghurt and self raising flour that works to make a dough. No need to leave to rise, no yeast, just yoghurt and self raising flour. It works because the flour already contains a rising agent and the yoghurt helps to activate it.
crackers are familiar
cheesy taste
perfect for dipping or eating with cheese
crunchy
My kids love recess lunchboxes, because they always have cheese and crackers. It is a favourite thing. We swap cheeses sometimes but mostly use Babybel cheeses as they love the flavour and the wax means they stay fresh and cold.

What goes into the recipe

don’t forget to scroll to the recipe card for quantities and the full method

ingredients for Crunchy 5 ingredient cheese crackers: greek yoghurt, wholemeal self raising and plain flour, parmesan cheese, flax seeds

yoghurt (good quality greek style works best)
self raising flour (I've used wholemeal)
flax seeds (perfect for adding extra fibre into your kids diet)
parmesan cheese (grate from a block as you can grate it much finer)
plain flour because we want a mix or it will rise too much

How to make this recipe

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celsius. Combine all the ingredients in a mixer, mix on low for 1 minute. (Image 1)
Crank the mixer to high and mix for 2 minutes (Image 2)

combining ingredients, mixing dough in the mixer, dough ball, ready to roll

When a dough ball is formed (Image 3) flour your surface lightly for rolling out. (Image 4)
Roll out the dough to .5cm thick and cut with cookie cutters of your choice. Or cut into rows with a knife and then cut into little squares.(Images 5 and 6)
Place on lined baking trays and bake for at 190 degrees 15-18 minutes or until crunchy. (Image 7)

cutting the dough into rows, cutting into squares and what they look like when baked

Expert Tips and FAQs

these need a fair bit of flour for rolling out, or do it between two sheets of baking paper
keep an eye on them in the oven from about the 15 minute mark, but you need them to brown to be crunchy
store in an airtight container for maximum freshness when they are completely cold.

How many crackers does one batch make?

This depends on the cutters you use, I go with small and cute for things like this because it means I get a load of crackers from my one cook up. I get a minimum of 70 crackers from the dough. I decided that I would cut these using a knife, into rows and then squares.

How do I store these crackers?

These crackers keep well in an airtight container in the fridge, or you can even freeze them!

What about swapping seeds?

Chia seeds, poppy seeds and also sesame seeds work well in these. A combination of the three is also great.

Do I need a stand mixer for this?

You could, if you didn't have a stand mixer possibly use hand beaters or even a food processor for these crackers, but it is a quite strong or heavy dough, so trying this by hand might be too hard!

hand holding a crunchy 5 ingredient cheese cracker above a tray of crackers

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