Erik's Graham Crackers

We have four children, three girls and one boy.  The youngest, Erik, is almost a year old.  Hard to believe how fast this last year went by!  Something you need to know about Erik is, he likes to eat.  You would never know by looking at him, but he LOVES to eat.  The boy always has to have something to gnaw on!  His favorite snack lately is graham crackers. After watching him go through box upon box, I decided it was time to make these. 

Now I know exactly what's in them and I always have the supplies on hand in case we run out!  So here's what I did.

1 cup of pastry flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup of all purpose flour
2 cups of brown sugar
2 teaspoons of baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
2 cold sticks of unsalted butter
2/3 cup of clover honey
10 tbslsp milk
2 tsblsp vanilla extract
2 tsp of ground cinnamon


Combine all flours, brown sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.  Work by hand to blend all the flour mixture together, well.  Add in your two sticks of butter and blend well with a pastry blender (you could also use forks or pulse on your food processor for this).  Make sure you get all the butter incorporated into the flour mixture. 

In another bowl combine milk, honey, vanilla and cinnamon.  Wisk together well.  There should be no visible honey left hanging around anywhere! Add the wet ingredients to your flour mixture and mix with a hand mixer until the dough barely holds together.  The dough will be crumbly looking, yet wet and easy to stick together. 

Shape into a ball, move to a floured bowl and chill in the fridge for two hours.

I only have a certain amount of time to get these kinds of things done, so I put my dough in the freezer for a half hour.  Let it get firm and took a handful out at a time. 

While Steve and I were still trying to decide whether we were going to try for a number 4 baby, translation: a boy, I found these awesome cookie cutters and thought to myself "These would be awesome if we ever have a boy!" So I'm putting them to good use.  Dinosaur Graham Crackers!

You will need to flour your rolling surface quite heavily.  This dough is pretty sticky even after its been in the freezer.  Roll the dough out into a rectangle, 1/4 inch thick and cut with a cookie cutter.  Or with a pizza cutter, cut into desired length of cracker.

Arrange the crackers on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.  Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes.  The tops of the crackers should still be slightly soft and the edges a little crispy when you take them out of the oven. Let them cool on a cooling rack for a few minutes.  As they cool they become more cracker-like. 

Erik approved!