Cheese Buds

Cheesy, salty, tender bites of melt in your mouth goodness. These crackers are
great to make for the holidays.

Servings: 3 dozen

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Prep Time
1 hour, 15 minutes

Cook Time
15 minutes

Total Time
1 hour, 30 minutes

Snacks accompaniments

Appetizer

Cocktails cheese appetizer cracker

🧂 Ingredients

4 ounces extra sharp white cheddar cheese, grated (approximately 1 cup)
1/2 cup unsalted butter, cold and cut into chunks
1 cup cake flour

all purpose flour can be used if you don't have cake flour on hand
1 tsp course sea salt
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
1 egg white

whisked till frothy, but no peaks
smoked paprika

for garnish
whole pecans

for garnish

1 Grate cheese
2 Add flour, cheese, butter chunks, salt, and cayenne pepper to a food processor.
Turn food processor on and allow to process until ingredients form into a ball.
This will take approximately 1 minute.
3 Remove dough from food processor, wrap with plastic wrap and press into a flat
round, place in refrigerator for 1 hour.
4 Dust counter top with flour and roll out dough until its 1/4 inch thick, using a
1 inch round cookie cutter (you want your cheese buds to be bite sized) cut out
rounds and place on parchment paper lined baking sheets.
5 Place a pecan on top of rounds, using a pastry brush lightly paint each cracker
with egg wash, and sprinkle with smoked paprika.
6 Bake in 350 degree oven for 15 minutes or until buds just start to brown around
bottom edge. Check after 12 minutes.
7 Remove from oven, and immediently remove to a cooling rack. Allow to cool and
store in an air tight container for put to 1 week, or freeze for 1 month.