Chocolate covered graham crackers

As quite one, I visited my grandmother every December. She same outdated to bribe me to drink milk with the temptation of chocolate-covered graham crackers.

I’m no longer going to lie and expose you that making graham crackers at home is a brief and simple endeavor. You wish graham flour, which I could guess you do not be pleased mendacity around your kitchen. (I’ve purchased it online and within the “healthy” sections of same outdated grocery stores; Bob’s Red Mill worth is the best to search out.) And whereas making the dough is easy (2 minutes in a meals processor), from birth as a lot as attain, the recipe takes about 2 hours. Out of the ordinary of that point is spent awaiting the dough to relax, then bake, then frigid. That acknowledged, it is worth it. Whereas store-purchased grahams are crumbly and extra cracker-love, these are crispy and fall squarely on the cookie aspect of the fence.

There are about a guidelines to making these shine. First, after you roll out the dough and reduce it into squares or rectangles, don’t pull off the surplus. The aspects of the dough tend to darken extra hasty than the heart. Better to be pleased the jagged edges over-baked than the crackers themselves. Additionally, you will need to positively salvage the appropriate chocolate you would also (I utilize Callebaut; don’t utilize chocolate chips!) and seize the time to mood it. Utilize with out reference to methodology you want – I’ve described what has worked for me within the past. While you happen to mood the chocolate, you indubitably can store the crackers, chocolate and all, at room temperature with out a pronounce.

I tailored this recipe from Joanne Chang’s first cookbook, Flour, and from Alton Brown’s online recipe. —zahavah

Directions

1. In the reduce worth of the butter into 1/4-trek cubes and living within the freezer for roughly 10 minutes.
2. Allege within the bowl of a meals processor both flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Pulse plenty of conditions to combine. Then add the chilly butter and proceed to pulse unless the aggregate resembles rude cornmeal. Add molasses/honey, milk, and vanilla and route of for roughly a minute unless the dough kinds a ball.
3. Press the ball exact into a 1/2-trek thick disk, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
4. Preheat oven to 350° F.
5. Decide away the chilled dough and divide it in half. Return the assorted half to the fridge. Roll the dough out between two sheets of parchment unless it is 1/8-trek thick.
6. Decide away the tip sheet of parchment and stir the assorted sheet with the rolled-out dough onto a cookie sheet. You wish reduce the dough into squares or rectangles – a worn graham cracker is 2 x 2 — but I made mine about 1 x 1.5 or so. Utilize a pizza cutter and straightedge to manufacture vertical and horizontal cuts the whole means all by the dough. Don’t perfect the surplus. Utilize a fork to manufacture holes within the crackers in with out reference to pattern you’d love. Don’t separate the crackers but.
7. Bake the crackers all by the oven unless the outer edges upright birth as a lot as darken, about 25 to 30 minutes. The crackers themselves might perchance perchance not coloration valuable. Must you seize them out, the dough will mute in fact feel a minute bit relaxed – that’s what you need.
8. Decide away from oven, predicament the sheet pan with the crackers on a cooling rack and enable to chill totally. As the crackers frigid, they’ll harden.
9. As soon as the crackers are totally frigid (20 to 30 minutes), ruin them up.
10. Whereas the crackers are cooling, mood the chocolate. Utilize with out reference to methodology you want, or try what has worked well for me. Maintain a tiny pot with 1/2-trek of water and elevate to a simmer. Nick the chocolate into tiny chunks and living half of them in an amazing steel or glass bowl. Allege the bowl over the simmering water, making obvious that the water doesn’t contact the bowl. The utilize of a spatula or wood spoon, combine the chocolate unless it is nearly totally melted. Decide the bowl off the pot and wipe away any moisture from the bottom. Slowly add the final chocolate objects, persevering with to drag unless every addition melts, after which add another few chunks. The chocolate will birth as a lot as salvage glossy. The extra you drag, the glossier your chocolate will possible be. While you happen to also can merely be pleased a candy thermometer, defend stirring unless the chocolate reaches 90º F. No thermometer? No pronounce. Rob stirring and after about 10 minutes, dip a steel spoon within the chocolate, after which stick it within the fridge for 2 minutes for darkish, 5 for milk. If it comes out predicament and glossy and no longer tacky to the contact, it’s perfect. If it’s mute sticky, it’s no longer frigid sufficient, and no longer tempered, so defend mixing and add any final chocolate objects.
11. To drizzle, lay the cooled crackers on a rack placed over parchment paper. Utilize a fork to drizzle the chocolate in a criss-corrupt pattern over the crackers. Let the chocolate harden. To coat, dip every cracker midway (or the whole means!) into the chocolate. Lay the dipped crackers straight away on the parchment and look forward to the chocolate to harden.
12. Store in an airtight container for as a lot as 2 weeks. While you happen to’d seize to bake upfront, freeze the easy crackers after which add the chocolate sooner than you wish to support.