A good few weeks ago it was Taste & Create time again and I very belatedly cooked and am even more belatedly posting my dish. Apologies to both Nicole and my partner Laurie as the deadline for this month’s challenge that I am skipping is in only a few days.
When I saw I was paired with Laurie who hosts the wonderful (and wonderfully named) Heaven is Chocolate, Cheese, and Carbs, I was looking forward to the challenge despite the fact that I am trying to cut down on diary and I knew that the recipes would set off cheese cravings. Happily Laurie is also a keen baker and there were plenty of diary free bread recipes to keep me happy.
In the end I chose to make cinnamon-sugar crackers, I had been reading about Snickerdoodles on the internet and was craving cinnamon so these were perfect. Easy to make from stuff in the store cupboard, delicious and possibly not too bad for me. Everyone at work hoovered them up the next day and they are definitely on my cook again list, along with some of Laurie’s other recipes. I used a ¼ of the recipe for a first try and have converted the whole amount it to weights to make it easy for those in Europe without cup measures, I think I probably added far more cinnamon to the dough than listed.
Cinnamon Crackers
10oz / 280g plain flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Generous pinch salt
4 Tbs olive oil
1/3 pint / 180ml cold water
For sprinkling on top
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 400F/GM6/200C. Mix the dry ingredients together well, add the oil and half the water and mix, slowly adding enough water to make a rough dough. Turn out and knead until it comes together. Divide the dough into 4. Mix the sprinkling ingredients together in a separate bowl.
Roll out each ball of dough on parchment paper (I used a silicon baking sheet) until it is as thin as you can get it, cut into diamonds and prick well with a fork. Sprinkle the cinnamon/sugar mix over and lightly press into the biscuits. Bake for about 15 mins or until golden brown (on a few of my crackers the sugar had melted and caramelized) when cool snap apart. Repeat with the rest of the dough.
These look fascinating – thanks for sharing