Tremendous Simple Ranch Crackers – My Baking Habit

Buttery and flavored with ranch seasoning, these baked ranch crackers are a fast and straightforward party-favorite snack.

You recognize me – I like a great social gathering snack. I’ll spend a whole social gathering sneaking bites of spicy sausage dip, marinated cheese, and mango and black bean salsa. 

If you happen to see me go to the buffet desk a dozen instances, no you didn’t.

The one factor higher than a great social gathering snack is an EASY, good social gathering snack. And that’s completely what these ranch crackers are.

You solely want a couple of easy components and about half-hour to make these flavorful, enjoyable crackers, and they’re at all times an enormous hit!

They’d even make an excellent enjoyable host present for a game-day social gathering or tailgate. Pop them right into a cute jar and also you’ve obtained a scrumptious do-it-yourself present your mates will love you for.

What are ranch crackers?

Right here within the Midwest, we love ranch. From basic ranch dip to fiesta ranch dip, bacon ranch pasta salad, rooster bacon ranch pizza, and a lot extra – we are able to’t get sufficient.

So ranch on crackers? That’s an apparent sure.

Ranch crackers are mostly made with oyster crackers or saltines. They get tossed with butter or oil and ranch seasoning and baked till they’re juuuust excellent. They’re the best poppable snack to set out on the espresso desk in the course of the huge sport.

Regardless that oyster crackers and saltines are the most typical cracker possibility, they aren’t the solely possibility. When Stephie informed me that her mother-in-law makes these with Ritz Bitz cheese crackers, I knew I needed to strive them instantly. 

I’m obsessed. Buttery, cheese, herby, these little crackers have all of it. And so they solely take a couple of minutes to toss collectively! 

Cautious, you simply may eat the entire batch earlier than your friends even arrive.

How one can make these straightforward ranch crackers

Able to see how fast and straightforward it’s to throw collectively these baked ranch crackers?

Elements you’ll want

For this recipe, you will have:

• 1 (8.8-ounce) field Ritz Bitz cheese crackers
• 4 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
• 2 tablespoons ranch seasoning
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon dried dill

I like making this recipe with Ritz Bitz cheese crackers (or your most well-liked model of mini cheese sandwich crackers). 

If you happen to don’t need to use cheese sandwich crackers, you’ll want about 9 ounces of the cracker of your selection, resembling oyster crackers or mini saltines.

I like utilizing my do-it-yourself ranch seasoning combine as a result of I at all times have some available. If you wish to use store-bought, 2 tablespoons is the same as a 1-ounce packet of ranch seasoning.

Between the crackers and the ranch seasoning, I believe this recipe has loads of salt in it, so I like to make use of unsalted butter. However utilizing salted butter gained’t add an excessive amount of further salt, so don’t fear if that’s all you’ve got available.

Making these crackers

I guess you possibly can combine these ranch crackers collectively earlier than your oven has even completed preheating.

Add the crackers to a big bowl, then pour the melted butter over them. Give them a delicate stir to mix.

Sprinkle on the seasonings and gently stir once more to coat the crackers. A number of the crackers will find yourself with just a bit bit extra seasoning than others, however that’s okay! 

Unfold the crackers onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake at 250°F for 20 minutes, gently stirring them as soon as on the midway mark. 

Sure, 250°F is appropriate! Just like once you make do-it-yourself chex combine, you aren’t actually cooking the crackers a lot as you might be drying them out a bit. So a low oven is what you need to use right here.

Let the completed crackers cool earlier than storing in hermetic containers for as much as per week.

Recipe variations

This ranch cracker recipe is tremendous easy, however there a loads of methods to alter it up in order for you.

As an alternative of utilizing Ritz Bitz, use about 9 ounces of your most well-liked crackers. You don’t even have to stay with simply oyster crackers or mini saltines, though they’re a preferred selection.

Strive utilizing goldfish crackers or cheese crackers, resembling Cheez Its. You possibly can even use membership crackers, basic Ritz, or City Home crackers. There are such a lot of choices!

As for the seasoning, be at liberty to boost the ranch by including some crushed pink pepper flakes to your seasoning combine and/or including a number of dashes of your favourite scorching sauce to the melted butter.

If you happen to’re utilizing a packet of ranch seasoning, you possibly can use a flavored ranch. Hidden Valley makes a wide range of flavors, resembling spicy ranch, buffalo ranch, taco ranch, and extra. Strive a kind of variations for a enjoyable twist!

And at last – if you happen to don’t have butter available, be at liberty to swap in your most well-liked neutral-flavored oil, resembling canola or vegetable oil.

Regardless of the way you make them, these ranch crackers are positive to change into an enormous favourite!