Ingredients:
1/4 Cup Of Hershey's Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
3/4 Cup Of All Purpose Unbleached Naturally White Flour
1/4 Teaspoon Of Morton Iodized Table Salt
1/4 Teaspoon Of Bob's Red Mill Baking Soda
1/2 Cup Of Bob's Red Mill Organic Scottish Oatmeal
6 Tablespoons Of Miller's Wild Honey
1/2 Teaspoon Of Morton & Bassett Pure Almond Extract
1/2 Teaspoon Of Pure Bourbon Madagascar Vanilla Extract
4 Tablespoons Of Organic Buttermilk
1/4 Cup Of Softened Real Salted Butter
Information:
Serving Size 24
77 Calories Per Serving
2 Grams Of Fat
Preparation Instructions:
I whipped up this chocolate animal crackers recipe especially for my daughter, and it turned out awesome. To begin you will first need to take out a food processsor and plug it in. Pour the Scottish oatmeal into the processor and pulse it until the oats are near a powder consistency. Next add the ground oats to a large mixing bowl along with the table salt, and then sift them together. Next add in the cocoa powder, white flour, baking soda, honey, almond extract, vanilla extract, organic buttermilk, and salted butter. Stir the contents together until a firm animal cracker dough takes shape. If you find that the dough is too dry, then simply add in more buttermilk. You are also more than welcome to either increase or decrease the cocoa powder proportion, it depends on your own taste preference. Moving forward, now that your dough is done, place it in a sealed container, and then slide it into the refrigerator to chill for one full hour. Once the dough has chilled, roll it out on a floured surface to an eighth inch thickness. Using flour dipped animal cracker cutters, create a variety of different cracker shapes. Place the cut out crackers on to a greased cookie sheet. You will want to bake the chocolate animal crackers at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, or 175 degrees Celsius, for roughly ten minutes. Once baked, be sure and let the animal crackers cool on wire wracks.
