remember these graham crackers? well, about a month ago (near the happy toddler’s birthday) i decided to finally try the other recipe that i’d linked to in that first post. i’d recently found some cars cookie cutters (the kind that also stamp details into the cookie and don’t just give you the silhouette) at a local discount store, and i decided that these would be the perfect birthday treat to take to the happy toddler’s class (he doesn’t really go for cupcakes and i knew he’d be thrilled to see tow-mater). how did they turn out? delicious! they taste more like a graham cracker to me than the other recipe, and in the first day or two after baking, they had the right crunch (rather than the softer, cookie-like consistency of the first batch). but… i wouldn’t necessarily recommend them for use with a detailed cookie cutter like this one. the dough was much more fiddly than the first recipe. as soon as it wasn’t super cold, it got really hard to handle (sticking to the counter, sticking to the cookie cutter, easily smooshing out of shape) and the four cookies you see above were probably the most clearly identifiable out of the whole batch. many of the rest looked more like this:
i will say they had a surprisingly long shelf life (we just at the last of them today and they were still tasty– but they had definitely lost their crunch. not stale, just soft and chewy.) i think i’d try this recipe again, but with simpler shapes (rectangles, perhaps?) or i might try the other one again and see if i could roll the dough more thinly and get the same cracker-y snap.
