It’s been awhile since we shared a recipe from one of our favorite children’s cookbooks – Sesame Street Let’s Cook! When our little nugget gets inspired to craft something in the kitchen, we usually gravitate toward this cookbook – and flip through the pages until we find a recipe that she wants to make. And our most recent winner was Big Bird’s Homemade Seed Crackers!
I’ve never made homemade crackers before, and for some reason, I always assumed it would be such a daunting task, but these seed crackers are super easy to make! And delicious to boot! What can I say? Big Bird has good taste. π Our little nugget enjoyed every step of the cracker-making process – from chopping up all of the seeds in the food processor, to squishing the dough into the baking sheet and scoring the crackers before we placed them in the oven.
More fun was had once the crackers cooled. First, she counted how many square crackers she had made, and then she broke them all apart along the scored lines. Next, it was time for taste-testing…and our homemade seed crackers passed with flying colors!
*Note: The following recipe appears in the Sesame Street Let’s Cook! cookbook, and is by no means my own personal recipe.
Big Bird’s Homemade Seed Crackers
Ingredients:
- 1 Cup Shelled, Dry-Roasted Pumpkin Seeds (or Sunflower Seeds)
- 1 Cup All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp. Garlic Powder
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
- 1/3 Cup Water
- 1/4 Cup Olive Oil
- 1/4 Cup Sesame Seeds
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350Β° F.
- Place the pumpkin seeds (or sunflower seeds) into the bowl of a food processor, and mix until all of the seeds are finely chopped. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, garlic powder, and salt. Stir to incorporate all of the ingredients.
- Add the water, oil, chopped seeds, and sesame seeds. Mix until all of the ingredients are thoroughly combined and a dough ball has formed.
- Place the dough in the center of a baking sheet and gently spread it out, in an even layer, until it reaches every edge of the baking sheet. You can use a rolling pin. Unfortunately, our rolling pin was too wide for our baking sheet, so we just used our hands.
- Using a butter knife, score the dough into 1-1/2″ squares. We made 8 scores across and 6 scores down the length of the baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Turn the baking sheet one half turn, and continue baking for an additional 10 minutes.
- Turn the oven off, and leave the crackers inside with the door closed, for an additional hour…or until crisp.
- Remove the crackers from the oven. When they have cooled, break them along the scored lines and transfer them to an airtight container.
These Homemade Seed Crackers will stay fresh in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
The entire family enjoyed eating these homemade crackers! They taste great on their own, but also pair perfectly with meats and cheeses, or a little dip of hummus. We used pumpkin seeds for this particular batch of crackers, because we already had some on hand. But we’re looking forward to trying sunflower seeds in our next batch…to find out which seed crackers we like the best.
We have yet to be disappointed with a recipe from our Sesame Street Let’s Cook! cookbook. We’ve shared two other delicious recipes from the book, if you would like to check those out as well – Abby Cadabby’s Very Cherry Multigrain Muffins and Count Von Count’s Cranberry-Apple Quinoa.
