Easy Homemade Peanut Butter Crackers
These peanut butter crackers are so simple to make – just dump all of the ingredients into a food processor! We like to eat them with cheese slices, but they are also really great with Nutella or honey.
I based these crackers off of my super popular homemade Ritz cracker recipe. It’s a simple dough made by food processing flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, butter, and creamy peanut butter.
Follow these tips for the best results:
- Make sure your butter is cold. The cold butter will make the crackers a little flaky.
- Use creamy peanut butter, not crunchy.
- Roll out the dough nice and thin. The thinner you roll the dough, the crispier the crackers will be.
- Don’t skip the part of the recipe where you poke holes in the dough using a fork. This step isn’t just for decoration. It helps the crackers bake more evenly.
I cut my crackers into rectangles using a pizza cutter.
However, you can make them any shape that you like. If you are baking with kids, experiment with cutting crackers out using different cookie cutters to make it a fun project.
The crackers last for about a week.
To keep them crispy:
- Keep the lid slightly open on the container that you store them in, or
- store them with a piece of stale bread (the bread will absorb some of the moisture from the crackers).
Other Crackers to Try
Homemade graham crackers are a must-try!
And, someday I’m going to give Served From Scatch’s saltine crackers a go.
Peanut Butter Crackers
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter cold
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2/3 cup water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 F.
- Put the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt into a food processor.
- Pulse to combine.
- Add cold butter a few small pats at a time, and pulse to combine after each addition.
- Add peanut butter. Pulse to combine.
- Add water a little bit at a time. Pulse to combine after each addition. Stop adding water when the dough comes together in a ball. You may not need the whole 2/3 cup.
- Roll dough out as thinly as you can. The thinner the dough, the crispier the crackers will be.
- Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into rectangles, or cut it out using any cookie cutters that you like.
- Poke holes in the dough using a fork. Keep in mind that the holes are not just decorative; they help the crackers bake evenly.
- Bake the crackers on a baking sheet for ten minutes or until the crackers just begin to brown.
- Cool and eat!
Notes
- Keep the lid slightly open on the container that you store them in, or
- store them with a piece of stale bread (the bread will absorb some of the moisture from the crackers).
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