Do you enjoy Graham Crackers? Well, they aren't very nutritious; basically made out of overly processed flour, refined sugar, and unhealthy oils...
Ingredients: UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, GRAHAM FLOUR (WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT FLOUR), SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, HONEY, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN - AN EMULSIFIER, CORNSTARCH. CONTAINS: WHEAT, SOY.
*Note: Click on ingredients to discover where to find them.
Try these instead:
1/2 cup vanilla whey or egg white protein
3/4 cup almond flour
1/4 tsp Celtic sea salt
1/4 cup butter or coconut oil
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup erythritol
1 tsp stevia glycerite
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). In a medium bowl, stir together the whey, almond flour, sweetener, spices and salt. Cut in the butter using a pastry blender or your fingers until the butter lumps are smaller than peas form a stiff dough. On parchment paper (lightly sprayed with coconut oil spray: click HERE to find it), roll the dough out to 1/8 inch in thickness. Using a pizza cutter, cut into squares and "score" with a fork (to look like graham crackers). Place parchment onto cookie sheets. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes in the preheated oven (remove and score the cookies again...they will bake together otherwise), bake an additional 5 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks. Makes 24 crackers.
Enjoy with a glass of unsweetened vanilla almond milk.
NUTRITIONAL COMPARISON (per cup)
Skim Milk = 90 calories, 12g sugar
Unsweetened Almond Milk = 40 calories, 0 sugar
Nutritional Information (per 2 crackers) = 82 calories, 1.5 carbs, 0.75g fiber
Hi Maria, I haven't tried your recipes yet, but can't wait to. I see alot of them ask for Jay R vanilla powder will other whey vanilla or unflavored work it I use some vanilla flovor? If so do I use the same amount? Thanks
ReplyDeleteYep, that will work. Use the same amount of whey, but add more sweetener (to taste).
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ReplyDeleteI made these today they tasted great but the mixture was really crumbly. I substituted the erythritol for truvia. Could that be why? Also in the instructions it says to mix the whey,flour and salt but doesn't say when to add the sugars and spices. Do you mix it all together at once? Thanks!
I think you would like my updated version way better: http://mariahealth.blogspot.com/2011/07/protein-graham-crackers-ii.html
ReplyDeleteYes, you mix all the dry ingredients together...I will fix that! :)))
ReplyDeleteThanks you!! I LOVE your blog. My son is GF and I am glad to find recipes that are great and don't have all those bad GF flours.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Please let me know what you all think of the new recipe;)))
DeleteHow do you store these?
ReplyDeleteIf we don't plan to use them soon I'll make them with coconut oil which makes them last longer on the shelf. Otherwise you can always freeze them. :)
DeleteNo Smores? Hehe or maybe the Choco Perfection bars and something for marshallow?
ReplyDeleteI haven't found a substitution for marshmallows. :(
DeleteI added 1 egg white and 1/4 tsp of baking powder and now they are not crumbly. They are perfect and yummy. My grandson likes to walk around his house with a healthy graham cracker in his hand:)
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