Learn how to make Cheese Crackers at home with this easy recipe. Made from scratch with real cheddar, these homemade cheese crackers are a fantastic kid-friendly snack. No preservatives or sugar in these salty snacks!
You can’t eat just one of these snack crackers.
Good thing they’re perfect for popping in your mouth! Homemade cheese crackers are a perfect alternative to the highly processed store bought versions kids beg for. These crackers are made with cheddar cheese and a savory seasoning blend. So they taste even better than the packaged crackers too!
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I love how versatile crackers are. You can tuck them into a school lunch box or throw them in your purse for on-the-go snacking.
Like this Oyster Cracker Snack Recipe! With just a few simple ingredients, these little crackers will remind you of churros with their cinnamon sugar flavor and you’ll just want to keep popping them into your mouth.
And cheese crackers are so flavorful that you don’t need to add any dips or spreads to make them truly satisfying.
The tangy, savory cheddar flavor in these crunchy cracker squares makes them impossible to resist! Put a bowl of these homemade snack crackers out at your next party and watch how fast they disappear.
What do I need?
You might assume you need a bunch of hard to find ingredients to make homemade crackers from scratch. That couldn’t be farther from the truth! This recipe calls for a very simple list of ingredients:
- Cheese
- Butter
- Flour
- Salt
- Lawry’s seasoned salt
- Milk
That’s it! The Lawry’s seasoning adds a perfect zesty kick that enhances the cheesy flavor in these crackers. You’re seriously going to love them!
Best Cheese for Crackers
You can make cheese crackers with almost any hard cheese you like. That said, I find that cheddar cheese produces snack crackers with the best flavor and crunchiness. The sharper the better! I always use extra sharp cheddar in this cheese cracker recipe.
One more tip about the cheese. If you can, it’s well worth grating the cheese yourself. I buy my cheddar in blocks at the store, then shred it with a box grater. The flavor is better than packaged shredded cheese and the cheese incorporates more smoothly into the cracker dough.
How to Make Cheese Crackers
This recipe is super easy to make once you have all your ingredients ready to go.
- Combine the ingredients for the dough.
- Roll the cracker dough into a rectangle.
- Cut in to squares. Poke a hole in the centers.
- Bake.
- EAT!
Wondering how to store homemade crackers? I keep them in an airtight container on the counter top. Because they don’t have preservatives, they will not stay fresh as long as the store bought ones. That’s never a problem in my house because I can hardly resist grabbing a handful every time I walk by the kitchen.
Snack Recipes
Cheese crackers aren’t the only homemade alternative to processed snack foods. Once you’ve gotten your fill of cheese crackers (as if!), you’ll want to explore all the other delicious homemade snack recipes out there.
This Cookie Butter Snack Mix is an easy sweet snack that the kids will love. Or try this Cinnamon Sugar Popcorn for your next movie night!
If it’s savory snacks you’re craving, check out these Baked Spiced Almonds. Nutty, spicy and simple to make.
Cheese Recipes
Who doesn’t like cheese? I have no shortage of recipes with cheese here on the blog that you’re going to love!
- Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits
- Cheesy Mashed Potatoes
- Meat and Cheese Boards
- Ham and Cheese Party Sandwiches
- BBQ Pork Mac & Cheese
- Smashed Potatoes with Cheese.
Grab a block of cheese and get baking!
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Homemade Cheese Crackers
Equipment
- 1 grater
- 1 Large Mixing Bowl
- 1 pastry cutter or two knives
- 1 wooden spoon
- 1 piece of parchment
- 1 Baking Sheet
Ingredients
- 6 ounces extra-sharp cheddar cheese about 1 1/2 cups, grated
- 4 tablespoons butter room temperature
- ¾ cup flour plus more for dusting
- 1 teaspoon Lawry’s Seasoned Salt
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Prepare a cookie sheet by lining it with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, combine cheese, flour, Lawry’s Seasoned Salt, and salt. Cut butter into smaller pieces and add to flour mixture. Then with a pastry cutter, cut butter into mixture, and combine until it resembles coarse meal.
- Add milk and with a wooden spoon, stir until the dough comes together in a ball. This may take up to 10 minutes, and you may need to bring the final bit together with your hands, but trust me it will turn into a ball of dough.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll dough, using a lightly floured rolling pin into a rectangle that measures 8 X 10-inches and is about 1/8 of an inch thick.
- With a pizza cutter, cut strips in both directions of the rectangle 1-inch thick, so that each cracker is a 1-inch square.
- Place crackers about 1/4-inch apart on the prepared cookie sheet. With the end of a chopstick, poke a hole into the center of each cracker.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes, until edges are just or very slightly browned. Transfer parchment to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Nutritional information has been calculated for 10 crackers per person.
Nutrition
This post was originally published 1/21/12 and has been update in format and with pictures on 2/14/22.
Comments & Reviews
i’d love to snack on a handful of these crackers. I’m such a sucker for the homemade ones.
Roxana, betcha can’t just eat a handful – I know I couldn’t!!
I just made these for when my kids get home from school. I didn’t have any seasoning salt, so I added a bit of onion powder. THEY ARE SOOO YUMMY!!
Thank you.
My girls and I made these tonight. They are awesome! Thanks for the recipe.
Thank you so much, Shelly! I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
I love, love crackers. Last year I made them for the first time and now I make the all the time. Yours turned out perfect. Thanks for participating in the YBR 🙂
I made crackers once. I haven’t a clue as to why I haven’t made ’em again because they are so awesomely good when you make them yourself. I love that you used Tillamook cheese (I love that cheese, it’s some of the best)and I’ll have to get back in the kitchen to make some of these 😀
Trying this tonight after work and teaching a violin lesson — CAN’T WAIT! Thank you for posting the recipe and providing awesomely delicious looking pictures! : )
Thank you for posting this recipe. My daughters (all under the age of six) loved them. The older ones have requested that their father and myself not purchase anymore cheese crackers from the store. They want me to make these instead. So that is success for this mommie. Thanks again, and many blessings.
Aw, thank you!! I am so very glad your daughters enjoyed them so much and it can give you piece of mind knowing the ingredients that are in them. I don’t like when I can’t pronounce the ingredients that are on the box.
Thanks so much for your comment. I greatly appreciate it and that you are reading!
Lynne, thank you, thank you! I’ve been wondering about these crackers but didn’t want to be disappointed. Now I know they’re good! I’m going to have to find the post of what you made for your daughter’s birthday, we all love Harry in this house! And Butterbeer is awesome! You need to take your daughter to Universal in Orlando, She’d go nuts!
Oh, I pinned this!
Thank you, I am so glad you joined us! My oldest has been asking me to make cheese crackers and here you are! Perfect! Thank you so much for sharing on Thursday’s Treasures Week 33! I hope you will share each week. <3 and hugs sweetie!
Made these for my two year old son, he chose them over store brand every time I offered them. I even did half ap flour and half whole wheat flour. Thanks for this recipe… I am adding it to my base recipe treasure book right now… Oh the varieties this could make! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing these!
My daughter loves the store bought ones desguised as fish..I can’t wait to make her these
I just made this. I never realized how simple it is to make crackers….and they are just delicious, specially warm straight from the oven!!!!!!!!!!! Thank u for posting this!!!!!!!!
Angela,
thank you for your feedback!! I’m SO glad you enjoyed them and you’re welcome!! I was really surprised at how easy they were to make, too! Which reminds me that I definitely need to make them again very soon!
Oh my, just finished baking these, can’t keep myself away from them, they a delish. Thanks for the recipe posting
did you use self rising or all purpose flour or does it make any difference
Daphne, I always use all-purpose flour in a recipe unless I note otherwise.
Oh my these “were” awesome!!! Thought I should try it out before I made them for Super Bowl Sunday and what a hit they were, had some fresh salsa we topped them with…YUMMY!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us.
What can I use if I don’t have lawrys seasoning salt?
Great recipe. Thanks for adding a new, unconventional recipe to my cooking repertoire.
Thanks, Fabio! Enjoy!
Delicious!
Well worth making, but make a double batch!
Thank you, Joan. I’m so glad you enjoyed them and appreciate the feedback!
Loved these crackers! I added a scant teaspoon of cayenne as I like it spicy. They were yummy!
Have anyone tried making these with almond flour? Trying to stay low carb..
Can these be made w gluten free flour?
Grace, I don’t see why they couldn’t, but I have never made them with gluten free flour. If you make them with it, I’d love to hear how they turned out, so please let me know!