Just in case you thought we were done sharing our Super Bowl food, here’s another recipe we cooked up this year!  Yes, we know the game already came and went last week, but we made a lot of great food and we’re eager to show off our recipes, including these crackers.  We liked the interesting way they came out and they were also fairly easy to make – plus they kept well for the week afterwards, so we had snacks for days.  These are based on a recipe from the New York Times, and we’ll walk you through how to make these from scratch for any occasion, game day or not.

You’ll need:

• 2 sticks (1 cup) of butter
• Sugar
• 2 eggs
• Flour
• Chives
• 4 ounces of cheddar cheese

First, the dough:  bring your butter to room temperature, then in a stand mixer with a paddle attachment combine the butter, 1/2 cup of sugar, and a large pinch of salt on low speed until you have an even mixture.  Add in 2 egg yolks and combine, then pour in 2 1/2 cups of flour and mix in, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed and making sure not to over-mix.  Place your dough – which should be crumbly – onto a work surface, then chop up about 1/3 cup of chives and sprinkle over your dough, along with plenty of pepper.

Use your hands to mix the chives and pepper into the dough, then lay the dough on top of a sheet of parchment paper.  Place more parchment paper on top and squish the dough into a rectangle that’s about 8 inches by 11 inches.  Grate your cheddar up finely, then scatter it on top of your dough.

Fold the dough in thirds, like this:

Wrap it up in the parchment paper and place in your fridge for at least an hour.  When the dough is ready to come out, cut it in half, then cut each half into crackers that are 1/4 inch wide.

Use your sheets of parchment paper to line two baking sheets and place your crackers on the sheets about 1/2 inch apart.

Bake at 350°F for 13 to 15 minutes, until the crackers are browned on the bottom but not burned.  Once they come out of the oven and cool, they’re ready to eat!

All in all, these are pretty easy:  your mixer does much of the work to make the dough, then you get to roll up your sleeves and have fun combining in the chives by hand before grating some cheese, folding up the dough, slicing it, and baking.  And out comes these crackers which are a little sweet and combine the classic flavors of cheddar and chives.  We really liked how they looked too – the chives are nicely speckled throughout the dough, and the cheese ends up looking like a colorful vein through the middle of each cracker.  We ended up eating these plain, but they can also be good to pair with some kind of dip.

Now make sure you check back at the end of this week for our last Super Bowl recipe of the year!