Red Velvet Graham Crackers

I know, you’re probably sick and tired of all the red velvet recipes.
I promise, I’m almost done with the red.

Graham crackers were one of the very first
store-bought-made-at-home
recipes I fell in love with.

A friend found this really old book
and thought I’d like it.

Not the catchiest of titles
Feed Me I’m Yours
it was a total made in the 60′s looking book,
but it was full of great toddler/baby food ideas
that you could make at home.

I had been making Stella’s baby food, but hadn’t really given much thought to what I was feeding Charlie
who was a toddler at the time.

There were cereal recipes, cookies, plenty of “finger food” ideas, even recipes for peanut butter play dough,
and an entire section on crackers.

Graham Crackers were the first  that I tried.
What toddler doesn’t love graham crackers?

It is still one of my favorite
go-to snack recipes for the kids.

and…
since this is Valentine’s week,
why not red velvet graham crackers.

I used my chocolate graham cracker recipe as a starting point
and simply used a bit less cocoa powder
added  vanilla, and of course
the red

Of course for Stella I had to make them hearts.

Enjoy!

Red Velvet Graham Crackers

1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of butter
4 tbsp milk
2 tbsp honey
2 tsp vanilla
1 – 2 tsp red food coloring



cream together the butter and sugar
add the milk, honey, and vanilla
stir in the flour, salt, baking powder, and cocoa powder
finally add in the food coloring – make sure to incorporate this thoroughly

roll out evenly, and cut into desired shapes
make sure to poke holes 

bake on a parchment lined sheet
@350 for about 6 minutes
{they burn very quickly}
cool