Cheez-It crackers - gluten free? Would it be hard?

[ChristinaM]

Fingers crossed for her.

[LaLa (Laura)]

Simple Mills and Made Good also have versions

[CCE (Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)]

@CCE

The big question, for those in the know - how hard would it be for the Kellogg folks (current purveyors of Cheez-It) to make a gluten free version of these?

Update. They say they’ll have one out sometime in 2026…

[CCE (Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)]

@Desert-Dan

You could use Gluten Free flour and cheese powder (which is gluten free) to make a hardtack cracker of your own.

I imagine you could control the salt, as well. Maybe add some spices that Daughter #3 likes?? Experiment with how thin or thick she might like it??

Would daughter #3 enjoy a project like that??

Oh, hey Dan, I can’t believe I forgot to come back to this thread. We’d gotten her the Loopy Whisk author (Kat Cermelj) book called “Elements of Baking” for Christmas around the same time (December 2023, IIRC) and later in the spring she found the recipe for GF mock-up Cheezits either in the book or on Kat’s website, similar to your suggestion except grated cheeses vs powdered, otherwise all with GF flour like you suggested.

I just now remembered because she’s got a batch of them in the freezer now from yesterday, ready to bake today. She’s made them at least 4 or 5 times and they’re really good, basically indistinguishable from the production version.

[CCE (Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)]

@CCE

She’s made them at least 4 or 5 times and they’re really good, basically indistinguishable from the production version.

Even using chopsticks to put the little divot hole in the middle of each cracker… LoL.

[Desert-Dan (Dan)]

That’s great!! I’m glad she was able to find a recipe that works for her.

Recently, I was watching some older youtube videos and a presenter named Brian Langerstrom made a GF pizza crust (for his wife), as she can’t have gluten. (He wanted to make her a home made pizza.)

There are some extra steps involved, but it was really neat that he made this for her. You could tell he had some failures along the way, but he kept trying and succeeded!!

[CCE (Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)]

Yeah Lauren is also GF. Lagerstrom is one of my “pretty trusted” pizza and bread gurus; I’ve learned tons of stuff from Brian.

Plus, if you haven’t seen it, his beef stew recipe is 100% kick butt. Except he doesn’t put button mushrooms in it, which I view as some sort of a crime, and I just don’t have the patience to peel all those small pearl onions, so I just dump in orbitally slice onions.

Link to that one is below. It is a seriously great beef (or lamb) stew.

COMFORTING 1 POT BEEF STEW (My Best Recipe of 2022)

[ChristinaM]

A stick of butter!? Wowza.

He does use mushrooms…So you are anti-mushroom, correct?

[CCE (Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)]

No, I had it wrong/misremembered. Not sure now why I thought he didn’t have mushrooms in it.

The stick of butter sounds like a lot, but actually isn’t so much in view of the ~ cup of flour. What i mean is, if you were making a roux, 8 Tbs butter and 15 Tbs flour would be butter-poor.