Fruit and Nut Crisps! The PERFECT cracker for cheese!

Nothing is more perfectly paired than cheese and crackers, but sometimes you want to feel fancy so you get those delicious fruit crisp crackers from the store, but they are super expensive in terms of crackers pricing, so if you’re me, you only buy them when you are feeling fancy and having guests over. Instead of buying them, we can make them! These crisp crackers aren’t too tricky to make, but they do take a few hours because you need to let things cool and do a second bake. Feel free to switch up the flavours, you can use any nuts, dried fruit and spices you have on hand. You can even switch up the flour if you have some fun flours like whole wheat or rye flour, feel free to substitute 50% of the flour with that. Lots of fun flavours you can make!

Snazzy Crackers!

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Fruit and Nut Crisps

Yield: about 50 crackers depending on how you slice them

Preheat oven to 350*F for the first bake, 250*F for the second bake

• 1 cup of Flour

• 1/4 cup Brown Sugar

• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda

• 1/2 cup Oats

• 1/2 teaspoon Salt

• 1/2 teaspoon Pepper

• 2-3 teaspoons herbs and spices, I did 1/2 teaspoon each: cinnamon, dried rosemary, dried thyme, and paprika but do whatever your heart desires!

• 1/2 cup seeds/nuts (I used 1/2 cup sliced almonds)

• 1/2 dried fruit (I used 1/2 cup dried cranberries)

• 1 cup Milk

• 1/4 cup Sour Cream (you can also use yogurt, buttermilk, or even unsweetened apple sauce or pumpkin puree)

1. In a large bowl stir together your dry ingredients, flour, brown sugar, baking soda, oats, salt, pepper, and herbs/spices. Toss to combine.

2. Stir in your dried fruit and nuts.

3. Pour in your milk and sour cream, stir to combine.

4. Pour into a greased and lined loaf pan, I used an 8”x4” pan.

5. Bake in a preheated 350*F oven for about 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick stabbed into it comes out clean.

6. Let cool at room temperature, then freeze for 1-2 hours.

7. Once lightly frozen, slice your loaf as thinly as possible using a serrated knife.

8. Lay each slice in a single layer on lined baking trays.

9. Bake in a preheated 250*F oven for 35-50 minutes or until thoroughly dried out. We are not baking at this point so much as we are drying out the crackers.

10. Let cool and eat! These babies can be stored in a sealed container at room temperature.