In a food processor, pulse the whole wheat pastry flour, all-purpose flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and ginger until combined. The ginger is the "patch"—it removes the metallic aftertaste some whole wheat flours have.
There is a specific type of culinary nostalgia that lives exclusively in the pages of The Enchanted Broccoli Forest and The Moosewood Cookbook. Mollie Katzen doesn’t just write recipes; she writes permission slips. Permission to use your hands, to substitute freely, and to accept that a cracked cracker is still a delicious one.
For decades, bakers have searched for the holy grail of homemade snacks: the perfect graham cracker. Not the overly sweet, plastic-wrapped rectangles of our childhood, but the real thing—toasty, nutty from whole wheat, and perfumed with cinnamon and honey. In a food processor, pulse the whole wheat
Enter Mollie Katzen’s legendary graham cracker recipe. Purists love it. Tinkerers, however, often find it needs to be patched.
In the world of baking, a "patch" isn't a failure; it's an upgrade. Perhaps the dough is too sticky. Perhaps you need a vegan version. Perhaps you want a saltier, more adult cracker. This article provides the original Katzen-inspired formula, followed by three critical "patches" to solve the most common homemade graham cracker problems. Wet Ingredients: Peel off the top parchment
This recipe yields approximately 36 standard 2-inch square crackers.
Dry Ingredients:
Wet Ingredients:
Peel off the top parchment. Using a pizza cutter, trim the edges to make a clean rectangle. Then slice into 2-inch squares. Gently transfer the squares to your prepared baking sheet, leaving ½-inch between them. Using a fork, dock (prick) each cracker 3 to 4 times. This prevents giant air bubbles. In a food processor
Preheat your oven to 325°F (165°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment. Place the chilled disc between two large sheets of parchment paper. Roll until the dough is an even 1/8-inch thick. Thicker than this and you get cookies, not crackers. Thinner than this and they burn.