Homemade Cheez-Its Recipe
This is the easiest homemade cheez-its recipe on the internet. No food processor or fancy equipment needed. Plus you can make it easily vegan! Just a win-win all around and a perfect nostalgic recipe :)
Ingredients
- 6 ounces shredded cheddar cheese
- 150 grams all purpose flour OR 1:1 gf flour blend about 1 cup
- 1/3 cup nutritional yeast
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp turmeric optional, for color
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 cup ice water
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350F.
- In a stand mixer, add your cheese, flour, nutritional yeast, salt, turmeric and olive oil. Mix on high for about 4-5 minutes, or until the cheese has turned into crumbles and the whole mixture looks like bright orange sand.
- Drizzle in the ice water and put the mixer on low. Let it combine into a shaggy dough, then stop the mixer and use your hands to press the rest of the dough together.
- Press the dough into a ball, cover and let it rest for 15-20 minutes.
- Place the dough on a large sheet of parchment paper and roll out until it is very thin. You want it no thicker than 1/2 cm thick.
- Cut the dough into 1' but 1' squares. You can do this by tracing long vertical strips down the dough, and then long horizontal strips.
- Use a chop stick or toothpick to indent a small circle into the center of each square.
- Separate the squares out and place them on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Bake at 350F for 20-25 minutes or until the edges of the crackers are slightly crispy. It is very important to let them cool all the way to allow the cheese to crisp up!
- After the crackers have cooled, they are ready to eat!