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Homemade Gourmet Crackers

By:Nagi
Published:1 Dec '17Updated:28 Sep '19
375 Comments
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These Homemade Gourmet Crackers are a revelation. A copycat of the gourmet fruit and nut crackers sold at the stores to serve with cheese that I love but are pricey! These are simple to make, keeps for weeks, cost 80% less than store bought and taste so much better, you’ll be amazed (I was!).

Spectacular with cheeses and spreads, and for gifting!

Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

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OK, enough about the Dozer button. Onto today’s recipe – Homemade Gourmet Crackers!! I am super excited about this one because I’ve had some great feedback from my official taste testing team (aka my mother’s golf friends who descend upon the beach shack for a post-golf lunch and provide very constructive feedback on my recipes).

These crackers are so great, I really wish I had a fantastic story to go with them. But actually, I don’t. Quite simply, gourmet crackers are all the rage nowadays but I just can’t bring myself to pay the rather obscene prices for them. Fellow Aussies may have noticed a certain brand of gourmet crackers prominently placed near the cheese and spreads section of supermarkets like Woolworths and Coles. Crackers that look just like these homemade ones – except they are round – and they cost $6 for 15 pieces. $6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

I have been known to drop a small fortune on designer shoes a handful of times in my life. However, I cannot bring myself to pay $6 for one packet of gourmet crackers, especially when 1 packet would never suffice for my gatherings, I’d have to get 3 or 4. Can you imagine paying $24 just for the crackers for a cheese board??

Oh wait, I just realised I totally lied. I did buy one packet – for taste testing purposes, to copy them. 😉 I’d been eyeing them off for months, wanting to do a huge cheese board with these gourmet crackers. Then finally the penny dropped – get a packet and copy them.

So that’s what I did.

Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

These are very simple to make. It’s just like mixing up a muffin batter, except it’s baked in a loaf tin. Freeze (to make it super easy to slice thinly), slice, then bake again. It’s like making biscotti (ooooh, haven’t done that yet!!). It’s highly customisable, and brilliant for making ahead because the baked crackers stay crisp for at least 1 month OR you can keep the loaf in the freezer for weeks and weeks, then bake when you want them.

How to make Homemade Gourmet Crackers recipetineats.com

My taste testers agreed 100% that there is no contest when comparing these Homemade Gourmet Crackers to the store bought ones. With homemade, you can actually truly taste the ingredients – the spices, the cranberries, the sunflower seeds. The store bought one has far less flavour. When you taste them one after the other, which we all did, the difference is so “in your face”, it’s quite extraordinary.

If you’re planning a cheeseboard these upcoming holidays, I truly hope you consider these. Your family and friends will be blown away. They really are so simple, customisable, and make ahead – my taste testers were eating crackers I’d made 4 weeks earlier!

Oh – and they cost about 20% of the gourmet crackers that I copied. 🙂 I have a little gathering with friends this weekend, and I’m wondering how many times I will point to the crackers on the cheese board and proudly say “I made those”. I’ll ask my friends to keep count! – Nagi x


More cookie / cracker copycats

Other recipes I’ve created in the past for the same reason as these Byron Bay cookie copycat recipe (ie because I love ’em but they’re expensive!)

  • Byron Bay Cookies Copycat White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies – big, thick, buttery cookies loaded with white chocolate and macadamia nuts. Crisp with a tender melt-in-your-mouth texture, just like Byron Bay Cookies!
  • Muesli Cookies (Breakfast Cookies / Granola Cookies) – copycat of the thick, chunky, chewy muesli cookies sold in cafes across Australia. A healthy breakfast option because it’s like a bowl of oatmeal in cookie form – refined sugar free, low fat, gluten free, keeps you full for ages but it tastes like a sweet cookie!

Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

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Homemade Gourmet Crackers with Cranberries - simple to make, tastes way better and costs less than 20% that buying these at gourmet stores! Fantastic crackers for creamy cheeses, especially blue cheese. recipetineats.com

Homemade Gourmet Crackers

Author: Nagi
Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 1 hr 15 mins
Total: 1 hr 30 mins
4.98 from 92 votes
Servings40 pieces
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These are a copycat of Gourmet Crackers sold at my local shops which are so expensive to buy! For 1/5th of the price to buy, these are simple to make and they taste much better (having done side by side taste testing!). They last for at least a month in an airtight container, or you can keep the loaf in the freezer then slice and bake when desired. They taste sweet / savoury and are perfect with cheese. Customisable! Recipe VIDEO below.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup / 250 ml milk (any fat % cow's milk)
  • ¼ cup / 50g brown sugar , packed
  • ¼ cup plain unsweetened yoghurt (I used Greek)
  • ½ cup / 75g plain flour (all purpose)
  • ½ cup / 75g whole wheat / wholemeal flour
  • ½ cup dried cranberries (or other dried fruit of choice)
  • 1 tsp baking soda / bi-carb (or 3 tsp baking powder)
  • ½ cup rolled oats   (or 1/3 cup more nuts of choice)
  • ¼ cup sunflower seeds (or other seeds or nuts of choice)

Spices:

  • ½ tsp ground turmeric (can omit)
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg (or All Spice or 1/8 tsp cloves)
  • ¼ tsp dried thyme
  • 1 tsp dried rosemary (or ½ tsp more thyme)
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1/8 tsp black pepper

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 180C/350F (all oven types). Grease and line a small loaf tin with baking paper (mine is 21 x 11 x 7 cm / 8.5 x 4.5 x 3”) (Note 1).
  • Whisk the milk, sugar and yoghurt in a bowl.
  • In a separate bowl, add plain flour, wholemeal flour and cranberries. Stir – use fingers to break up cranberries if required.
  • Add remaining ingredients, including Spices, plus the milk mixture. It should be a thick batter, like muffin batter (note: batter in video looks slightly thicker because it was standing for a couple of minutes, doesn't affect outcome). 
  • Scrape/pour into tin. Bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
  • Cool on rack, then wrap in cling wrap and freeze for at least 2 hours, up to 3 months. (Note 2)
  • Unwrap loaf and allow to thaw partially so the outside is not rock hard frozen (around 20 minutes).
  • Preheat oven to 120C/250F (all oven types). Place one shelf in the middle, and another shelf beneath it.
  • Use a serrated bread knife to slice thinly – around 2 mm / 1/12” thick (see video). Place biscuits on 2 large baking trays, you can squeeze them in as they won’t expand or stick.
  • Bake for 50 minutes or until they are a light brown, swapping trays halfway.
  • Leave biscuits on tray to cool – they will harden so they snap when you break them. (Note 3)
  • Store in an airtight container for 4 weeks (probably ok for longer, I’ve only done 4 weeks). Brilliant served with creamy cheeses like brie, camembert, but soft, creamy blue cheeses is the ultimate pairing!

Recipe Notes:

1. The size of the loaf tin determines the shape of the cracker. I like using a small one so you get more height to the loaf, so when it slices they are a nice rectangle shape.
The source recipe (see Note 3) suggests baking the batter in mason jars to make them round which looks terrific. My concern here was ensuring that the mason jar used is in fact oven proof, and because I don’t even know if mine are, I opted to stay away from this technique. You can actually get baking tubes the size of crackers! However, there are no hard and fast rules about what shape gourmet crackers should be and the rectangle shape of mine are good for snapping into 2 pieces so each piece becomes about the size of a round cracker, so I’m happy with these!
2. Freezing the loaf completely through to the middle makes it far easier to slice thinly.
I haven’t actually frozen mine for 3 months (I’ve done around 1 month) but I’ve researched into this based on the ingredients included and it seems that the nuts / fruit will / may start to lose flavour after around 3 months. If they aren’t fully crisp, pop them back in the oven and let them cool in the still hot, closed, turned off oven.
3. This recipe is adapted from this Copycat Trader Joes Pumpkin Cranberry Gourmet Crackers by The Café Sucrefarine, great blog run by a mature husband and wife team. That’s a nice way of saying they have many years of cooking experience, their recipes are reliable and they have great taste! The changes I made: I use milk instead of buttermilk because I honestly could not tell the difference, and I use yoghurt instead of 3 tbsp pumpkin puree because we don't get canned pumpkin here and even if we did, I would prefer to avoid opening a can to just use 3 tbsp. Plus yoghurt combined with milk = great buttermilk sub! I also bake mine longer at a lower temp because I find it crisps the biscuits better without colouring them too much and ensuring the cranberries don't burn.
4. Makes 40 crackers which are about 11 x 3cm / 4.5 x 2.3". Nutrition per cracker.

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 15gCalories: 31cal (2%)
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375 Comments

  1. Marie Bunce says

    January 15, 2021 at 11:54 am

    5 stars
    I love these crackers! Now I’m set to make them as a gift for friends. Any suggestions for how to make them gluten free?

    Reply
  2. Lynelle says

    January 13, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    5 stars
    Absolutely delicious. These are a staple every year in my homemade Christmas hampers. Everybody loves them. I always keep a secret stash of all the ends and misfit bits for myself! Thank you for yet another wonderful recipe!

    Reply
  3. Lyndall says

    January 6, 2021 at 5:45 pm

    These are really good, Nice website.
    Wondering if I could replace cranberries and sunflower seeds with olives and sun dried tomato.

    Reply
  4. Marjorie Rego says

    January 6, 2021 at 2:48 pm

    5 stars
    Hi Nagi. I love this recipe and have made it multiple times. Do you think chia seeds would work in this recipe? Just not sure if the chia seeds would affect the texture.

    Reply
  5. Sheila says

    January 3, 2021 at 8:45 am

    5 stars
    Thank you for this fantastic cracker recipe. I’ll never buy them again. Homemade is so much better and economical. You’re my favourite recipe blog!

    Reply
  6. Anne Preston says

    December 30, 2020 at 5:40 pm

    5 stars
    Keen to try fig and pistachio as a variation. Has anyone done this and did you change the spices too? I thought it might be good to change them for a slightly different flavour as I have the original recipe with cranberries and sunflower seeds and a second batch with apricots and sunflower seeds. Maybe just changing the fruit and nut combination might be enough. Happy to read others advice. TIA.

    Reply
  7. Anne Preston says

    December 30, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    5 stars
    This recipe is fabulous. I made at least 4 batches with cranberries and 4 batches with dried apricots then gave a mixture of them as Christmas gifts to work colleagues and friends. Everyone loved them and they were particular impressed that I’d made them myself. I won’t be buying fancy crackers again. I’ve been using a load tin but have purchased a long thin, square shaped tin, so I can mix it up even more. Thanks Nagi.

    Reply
    • Anne Preston says

      December 30, 2020 at 5:42 pm

      Load tin, should read loaf tin. 🙂

      Reply
  8. Emma 🐝 says

    December 30, 2020 at 3:32 pm

    GREAT RECIPE! So adaptable to GF and allergy requirements and whatever’s in the pantry. I had no whole meal flour so used more plain and had pepitas instead of sunflower seeds. Easy and DELICIOUS. Will be gifting the recipe link with my dad’s hand made charcuterie boards. 🐝

    Reply
  9. Thais says

    December 25, 2020 at 3:25 am

    Thank you very much for such a delicious recipe, these are my favorite crackers now 🙂

    Reply
  10. Del Davies says

    December 22, 2020 at 1:10 am

    Your gourmet crackers sound quite scrumptious and I plan to make them very soon. Thanku so much. Look frwrd to more of yr trcipes

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      December 22, 2020 at 10:28 am

      I hope you try them and love them Del! N x

      Reply
      • Kin Bemis says

        January 6, 2021 at 6:13 am

        Tried to make this low carb by using coconut and almond flour but so far they have been a disappointment. Should’ve followed my instincts and added an egg to batter. Just now tried to pick up load to put in gallon freezer bag and loaf broke into three pieces. Still going to try finishing recipe by freezing, slicing, and baking. Guess it’s just not the kind of recipe that can convert to low carb.

        Reply
  11. Cassie says

    December 21, 2020 at 7:05 pm

    Hi, just made these and they look fab but around the sunflower seeds they’ve gone Bright green. Any ideas why this might happen? Tia

    Reply
  12. Alana says

    December 21, 2020 at 10:55 am

    These look fantastic!! Do you think they could be made gluten free by subbing plain gf flour for the plain/whole meal flour? Or perhaps by using a mix of flour types (e.g: plain gf and buckwheat flours)?

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      December 21, 2020 at 1:17 pm

      Hi Alana, I haven’t tried to be honest! I would love to know if it works! N x

      Reply
  13. Anne says

    December 20, 2020 at 11:53 am

    5 stars
    Thank you for this great recipe. I have made this a few times now and subbed in dried apricot and pecans instead of cranberries and sunflower seeds – absolutely delicious. Great comments from family and friends.

    Reply
  14. Sue says

    December 18, 2020 at 10:47 am

    5 stars
    Was wondering how I would go about doing Parmesan and Onion? Thinking spring onion rather than normal onion,sliced thinly, and shaved parmesan rather than shredded. Maybe cumin instead of cinnamon & nutmeg. Should I leave in the sunflower seeds or it wouldnt make a difference? The original recipe is delicious but really wanted to try something that is totally savoury

    Reply
    • Sue says

      December 18, 2020 at 10:50 am

      Or maybe onion flakes would be better, just not sure about the parmesan

      Reply
    • Nagi says

      December 18, 2020 at 11:45 am

      Hi Sue – this will add moisture which won’t be ideal for these cookies – it’s something I’d need to test sorry! N x

      Reply
  15. Karen says

    December 18, 2020 at 10:30 am

    Hi I have noticed that you can use almond milk but we dont get tin pumpkin so can I use puree pumpkin that I make from scratch

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      December 18, 2020 at 11:46 am

      Sure can Karen!! N x

      Reply
  16. Rhonda Barbeler says

    December 18, 2020 at 9:41 am

    5 stars
    Oh my Lord! These are so delicious and so easy to make.
    This recipe will be a go to from now on! Thank you Nagi

    Reply
  17. Kat says

    December 15, 2020 at 2:02 pm

    Sorry if this has been asked but would using almond milk with something to sour it and cashew cream work as a dairy sub? I thought coconut yoghurt might change the taste too much. We have dairy allergies in our house so I’m always trying to adapt recipes. If anyone has successfully subbed the dairy products, I’d love to know what worked.

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      December 15, 2020 at 2:13 pm

      Hi Kat, yes that should work fine!! N x

      Reply
  18. Jenny Waern says

    December 14, 2020 at 8:06 pm

    5 stars
    So easy, so good! Everyone loved them, will definitely make again.

    Reply
  19. Lisa Mahony says

    December 14, 2020 at 4:39 pm

    Nagi, you’re a genius. These are amazing.

    Reply
  20. Dennis Eyjolfsson says

    December 11, 2020 at 12:29 pm

    The flavours are amazing. Thanks for sharing this recipe. It’s up there on top of all the many recipes I’ve tried Tin Eats.

    BUT I can’t get them to crisp up. There still moisture content and not crispy.

    I have returned them to the oven and let them to cool behind a closed door.

    Still no luck. Any thoughts?

    Reply
    • Dennis Eyjolfsson says

      December 13, 2020 at 12:52 pm

      I’m very disappointed that I have. Not had a response to my question about the Gourmet Crackers.

      I don’t seem to be able to get them to be crispy and watch my email daily for a response.

      You shouldn’t encourage comments if you can’t offer a response.

      Reply
      • Nagi says

        December 14, 2020 at 9:49 am

        Hi Dennis, you’ll have to forgive me, I get hundreds and hundreds of comments, emails, messages and requests on social media. I try to respond to as many as physically possible but unfortunately some do fall through the cracks, I’m only human and I do as much commenting as I can.

        Sorry you had issues with the crackers, did you change the recipe at all? Try leaving them in the oven slightly longer once sliced, they should crisp up nicely. – Nagi

        Reply
    • Anne says

      December 30, 2020 at 5:46 pm

      I’ve found in the first cooking I need to leave them for 30 minutes rather than 25, and then the skewer still comes out with a tiny amount of moisture. After freezing, slicing and the final 50 minutes they come out perfect.

      Reply
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