Homemade Cheez-Its
Homemade version of a favorite snack.
Ingredients
- 8 Ounces Sharp Cheddar Cheese
- 1 Cup All purpose flour
- 4 Tbs unsalted butter room temprature, cut into small pieces
- 1/2 tsp Dried ground mustard
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt, plus more for sprinkling
- 2 Tbs Cold water
Instructions
- Shred cheese. If possible shred cheese using the shred blade in your food processor. Remove shredding blade and cheese from food processor and replace the blade with the normal blade.
- Add cheese, flour, butter, ground mustard, and salt and pulse until the mixture crumbles.
- While pulsing, add one Tbs of water at a time until dough comes together.
- Remove from food processor, form ball, wrap in plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Roll dough thin, cut into one inch squares. Using a pastry wheel or a pizza cutter works as well. Us the tip of a skewer to poke a hole in the center of each square.
- Sprinkle with coarse kosher salt
- Bake for 15 minutes. But watch them carefully. The high fat content makes them to from crispy to over baked fast!
- Let them cool and enjoy!