No-Sugar Animal Crackers

It never crossed my mind to I could make animal crackers until I ran across a recipe on Pinterest. The recipe comes from this cookbook, but I tweaked it to be sweetened with honey rather than sugar.

Animal Crackers

1 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup freeze dried corn
1/4 cup malted milk powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
2 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup honey

Put flour and corn in the blender and blend until the corn is powdered. Add the malted milk powder, soda, salt, and butter. Pulse until the butter is broken into tiny pieces and coated in flour.

Transfer the entire mix into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a cookie paddle. Add the honey, egg yolks, and vanilla. Mix at medium speed until you have a smooth dough.

Flour your counter well. Divide the dough in half and pat one section into a little round. Sprinkle it with flour on both sides and gently roll it out. You want it really thin, around 1/8 inch. Run a spatula under the dough before you cut out the crackers.

Dust the top of your cracker dough with flour and spread it around with your hands and dip your cookie cutter in the flour before you begin cutting. I use these cookie cutters. Cut out your desired shapes and place them on a cookie sheet. You can place them quite close to each other. Bake at 350 f for 8-10 minutes. When the edges start browning, they're ready!

Cool completely before storing. They can be stored in a sealed container for up to one month.