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Homemade, Healthy Graham Crackers (With a secret ingredient!)

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H LOVES graham crackers.  She would eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if I let her.  She thinks they are cookies.  Fortunately, they really aren’t all that bad for you.  I let her have probably one a day.  They’re a great option when it comes to foods on the go.  The bad thing is, we’re on the go a lot, so she ends up eating a lot of the same thing.  It’s hard to hand her an apple or green beans to eat in the car and there aren’t that many healthy snack foods that don’t cost a fortune!  So I decided to try and make healthy graham crackers myself.

I found a recipe I liked at The Cupcake Project.  (Awesome blog by the way!  I’m now a follower!)  She got her recipe from Free Range Living who got it from The Fannie Farmer Baking Book.  (Yes, this recipe has been handed down several times now.)  Then, I just improvised.  They turned out pretty good!  Not so much like crackers…more like thin cookies, but unsweetened.  Oh, and you can’t taste the spinach.  That’s right.  Spinach.  🙂

Healthy Graham Crackers

This recipe makes 36 2 1/2 inch squares.

  • 4 T (1/2 stick) butter, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 5 T sugar
  • 1/2 t baking soda
  • 2 t water
  • 3/4 t salt
  • 2 1/2 C graham flour (I just used whole wheat flour in mine since I didn’t have graham flour on hand.  So I guess mine weren’t ACTUALLY graham crackers, but oh well!)
  • 3/4 C rye flour
  • 1 C frozen spinach thawed, but not drained
  • 1/2 C strawberries
  • 1/2 C blueberries
  • Cinnamon
1.  Preheat oven to 350 F.
2.  Combine the butter, egg and sugar in a bowl and beat until smooth and creamy.
4.  Dissolve the baking soda in the water and put in blender (or Magic Bullet!) with spinach, strawberries, and blueberries.  Blend until it’s a fine puree.
5.  Add to the butter mixture.
6.  Add the salt, graham flour (whole wheat flour), and rye flour to the mixture and blend thoroughly. The dough should hold together and be manageable. If it is too “tacky” add a little more graham flour.
7.  Line a cookie sheet with wax paper, dust it liberally with graham (or whole wheat) flour, take 1/3 or 1/4 of the dough and roll out to a thickness of 1/8 inch.  Sprinkle the top with cinnamon (or cinnamon sugar!) and lightly roll into the dough.
8.  With a knife, score the dough, without cutting through, into 2 1/2 inch squares. You can also use cookie cutters to make fun shapes in your dough!
9.  Prick each square a few times with the tines of a fork.
11.  Bake for 15 minutes.
12.  Remove from the oven and cool on racks.
H loves these!  They’re SO much healthier and I really feel good about letting her eat them whenever she wants.  Yay for healthy, yummy food!  I think they’d be delicious dipped in peanut butter.  🙂
Oh, and M was such a sleepyhead the whole time.  Here she is, enjoying the sound of the mixer.  Gotta love the finger on the nose!  🙂

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  1. Rebecca Glaser says

    I have mostly taken the sugar out of all my recipes and use natural, raw honey instead. It works just fine and is better for you. In liquids (smoothies, tea, hot chocolate, etc.) I use stevia, which is really good for you, and the kids are just fine with the flavor.

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  2. Jessica says

    Thanks Rebecca! I usually try to use honey in my recipes (or even better, applesauce) but was out of both. I don’t drink much tea and don’t sweeten my smoothies, but I know that my mom and sister also really like the stevia. I’ve never tried it in hot chocolate before. I’ll have to try that out!

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  3. Sariah says

    Totally trying this recipe!!! Cy loves snacks and eats ALL the time but I hate buying processed foods all the time… so we usually just don’t purchase crackers or anything in the middle section of the store… now I can give him crackers and feel good about it! Yay! Thanks for sharing!!!

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