Impress your guests with these super easy and deliciously perfect homemade sea salt and olive oil crackers. And by easy I’m talking making these right before guests arrive and then serving them just as they have cooled. And since these crackers only have five ingredients, they’re perfect for my Five Ingredient Fridays series.
These homemade sea salt and olive oil crackers came about because we had some friends over and had just bought some cheese but forgot crackers.
Since I’ve always wanted to make crackers (and we needed some) I thought I’d try to throw something together quickly to see how it would work. And wow! They’re super easy to make, in fact, I made them and was serving them within an hour. They’re flaky and have rich flavors of olive oil that are complimented oh so perfectly by the sea salt that they’re topped with!
To make these crackers you make a super simple cracker dough: you combine flour and a little baking soda, make a well and add in the water and olive oil and add a little salt, mix it together, then roll it out on a floured surface, place it on a parchment lined baking sheet and sprinkle with some sea salt. Bake, let cool, and then cut into crackers and enjoy!
This was the state of the crackers at the end of the afternoon:
I’ve also made these sea salt and olive oil crackers with 1/2 whole wheat flour and 1/2 all purpose flour and they’ve come out great!
I also like serving these crackers on a board (this is our cool & board) and just putting whatever we have in the fridge and random things on it to make a ‘cheese and cracker board’ for lunch – our (almost) 3 year old toddler loves having this for lunch!
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 Cups Flour plus more for rolling the out the dough
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 Cup Water
- 2 1/2 Tbs Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 2 tsp Fleur de sel sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425, line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl stir together the flour and baking powder and one teaspoon of the sea salt. Make a little well in the middle of the flour and pour in the water and olive oil. Stir with a wooden spoon until all combined and can be formed into a ball.
- Flour a board or flat surface and place dough ball on the floured surface and roll it thin to about 1/4 inch thickness and place onto parchment lined baking sheet. I didn't have a board big enough so I split the dough into two pieces and rolled them out and then pressed them together when I placed them on the parchment paper. Sprinkle remaining sea salt on top of the dough.
- Bake for 20 minutes, then check to see the color, you want it a golden brown. If you need to bake the crackers a few more minutes for them to be done, do so.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
- Lift the parchment paper out of the baking sheet, and slide the big cracker onto a cutting board. Now cut into smaller cracker pieces and serve!
Nan Fogle says
Am trying these now. Rolled the first pan out to 1/4″ and they came out super thick and the consistency of a rock. Have new bstch un at maybe 1/8″ hoping for better result. Tasted tiny corner of original and flavor is nice. What is making them hard, not flaky?
Second batch out…thinner but stull hard ad a rock..Difficulty in even breaking!
Sweetphi says
I think what was making them hard, not flaky is that the dough was too try? Too much flour perhaps? The olive oil definitely makes these super flaky so it sounds like something went a little wrong, perhaps a little too much flour was added.
Kevin says
Good for you trying trying this.
However the quantity of water is to to to high!
Try 3 – 4 desert spoons instead. Add them one at a tine to the food processor until you can just make a dough when you ball it with your fingers.
You will find all of that curling and breaking up will sto and you will get a professional finish.
And for a water biscuit you definitely do not want them golden brown!
These are not differing opinions to your own. This is how to make the recipe really sing. (Check a few pro recipes if you doubt me).
An opinion though: I would halve the salt.
Try it and see. 🙂
Thanks for sharing though.
Sweetphi says
Hi Kevin, thank you for your comment, however, I have to respectfully really disagree with you. I’ve made this recipe several times. If you were to use only 2-3 dessert spoons of water to 2 plus cups of flour, you wouldn’t even get a paste…you’d get a few clumps and the dough would be suuuuuper hard. You want the dough to be soft and very pliable so you can stretch it. Every other recipe I’ve used besides this one also has a cup of water – see here for reference https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-crackers-at-home-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-186144
Thank you for your comment though.
Janet Stovall says
I’m baking these now. I used to be able to find a version at my Kroger, but it was always hit or miss. You know, the kind you find in the specialty cheese section because they aren’t a “brand”. I had to add a decent amount of additional flour, though, because the dough was too sticky. What did I do wrong?
Liz @ The Lemon Bowl says
A friend of ours brought homemade cheese crackers to Christmas Eve and I about died. These look so good girl!
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much Liz, and cheese crackers? Now I have to make a version of homemade crackers with cheese, that’s for sure! These sea salt and olive oil ones are just so flaky and tasty, far better than anything I’ve ever had store bought!
Amanda says
These crackers look so amazing! Definitely impressive for a party!
Sweetphi says
I actually just made some of these for a party yesterday and everyone was so impressed, homemade crackers are definitely going to be my ‘thing’ from now on lol!
wearenotmartha says
I loveee making crackers and these ones look beyond perfect!!
Sues
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much Sues! I now am obsessed with making homemade crackers! I made some again today for a party, they’re just so amazing!
gudie says
Can’t wait to try these, just pinned this so I will remember next time , and not need to buy crackers from the store. So much more special when you make them yourself.
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much for the pin! You will definitely love these homemade crackers, and it is so much more special when they’re homemade (they’re also so much fresher tasting, these ones have a wonderful flaky quality I have never tasted in store bought ones)! Thank you for commenting!
Lynn Lovejoy says
OMG Girl… you are so brave I would have never tried to make my own crackers! Until now that is…I’m pinning this for the next time I’m in need of crackers because you make it look so simple! I had an awesome Christmas and I hope you did too my sweet friend! You totally deserve all of those Facebook followers (and more!) Love you to pieces!
Sweetphi says
Love you to pieces too! And thank you SO much for the pin, you know that means the world to me (besides our amazing friendship of course lol)! These homemade crackers are seriously one of the coolest things I’ve made in my kitchen, they’re so easy (seriously) and then you can be like here are some homemade crackers…boom…super impressive 🙂