Homemade Cereal - Cinnamon or Chocolate

Well, I'm still here and I'm skipping back to the blog with a recipe today. We've been getting spring showers here - yesterday and today it was dumpin' rain, and now there's a river flowing through our property.

So, here's a quick recipe I'm putting up quick before I need to go! Have a good, sweet [and crunchy] day!

I do have pictures of the chocolate stuff to post later, but for the cinnamon - see the Wordless Wednesday post I did awhile ago here. Oh, and this recipe is just what I do, the flours, etc. are subject to change ;).

Homemade Cinnamon Cereal
Hanunyah Creation

1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt, optional
1 cup buckwheat flour
1 1/2 cups rice flour
1/4 cup oil
2 eggs
1/4 cup water
cinnamon sugar

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Lightly grease a few cookie sheets.

2. Combine the sugar, cinnamon, salt and flours. Add the oil and mix together with a fork until the mixture is moist and crumbly. Add the eggs and water to form a soft dough.

3. Take a portion of the dough and place on one of the prepared sheets. Roll out very thin, about 1/8 to 1/4 inch thickness. The thinner it is, the crunchier it should be. Sprinkle liberally with cinnamon sugar, and cut into squares with a dull knife.

4. Bake for about 8 to 12 minutes, until firm to the touch, crunchy and light brown. Remove from oven, remove the cereal from cookie sheets to cool (you may have to break some of the squares apart).

Homemade Chocolate Cereal
Hanunyah Creation

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt, optional

1 cup buckwheat flour

1 1/2 cups rice flour

1/4 cup oil

2 eggs

1/4 to 1/2 cup water

cocoa sugar (a little cocoa mixed with some sugar)

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Lightly grease a few cookie sheets.

2. Combine the sugar, salt and flours. Add the oil and mix together with a fork until the mixture is moist and crumbly. Add the eggs and enough water to form a soft dough.

3. There are several ways you can shape the cereal, but here are my preferred methods. With the chocolate cereal I ended up crumbling most of the dough to make like a "cocoa pebble" type cereal (method a.) which was much quicker and easier than all of this shape stuff I was doing (yes, I did a few hearts and circles ;) ). So, I prefer the crumble method - which doesn't necesarily look very great - but it is very quick. The square method is also pretty quick, but still a bit more involved because of the rolling.

a. Crumble method: Take a portion of the dough and crumble/break into small pieces all over the baking sheet. It doesn't need to be very spread out, but just make one layer - sort of like granola.

b. Square method: Take a portion of the dough and place on one of the prepared sheets. Roll out very thin, about 1/8 to 1/4 inch thickness. The thinner it is, the crunchier it should be. Sprinkle liberally with cocoa sugar, and cut into squares with a dull knife.

4. Bake for about 8 to 12 minutes, until firm to the touch and crunchy. Remove from the oven and remove the cereal from the cookie sheets to a container (WITH NO LID) to cool (you may have to break some of the squares apart).

~ Hanunyah


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