Easy Whole Wheat Cheese Straws.
Clearly, it was a cheesy kind of weekend in the How Sweet house.
Even down to the part where Mr. How Sweet cut the sleeves off three Dale Earnhardt t-shirts.
It really happened.
And then he ate all my cheese straws. He was batting 1000.
This recipe was a first for me. I had never made cheese straws before, but boy am I glad I did. And honestly – you can’t even tell that these use whole wheat flour. They taste like Cheez-It’s in stick form!
Not only are they super delicious, but they are simple too. I ended up using a wire rack for mine, which resulted in a fancy pants cheese straw.
It happened by accident.
But it totally worked! Just remember to spray your rack with non-stick spray. If not, you will have a giant mess on your hands.
Which isn’t so bad, especially since said giant mess will most likely end up in your belly.
As a warning, there will be lots of breakage and crumbling pieces. But that’s the fun part about it. Lots of crumbs and rejects to eat. And since they are all little pieces they don’t really count or add up. They are calorieless.
Who knew cheese straws could be so easy? Go make some for lunch.
Easy Whole Wheat Cheese Straws
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 1/4 cups grated sharp cheddar cheese
- 3/4 stick cold butter, cut into chunks
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 1/2 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Combine flour, cheese, salt and paprika into the food processor and pulse until mixer. Add cold butter and pulse until butter is in course crumbs. Stream in milk with processor running so dough comes together to form a ball.
- Remove from food processor and lay on a floured surface. Flour a rolling pin and roll dough out until it is about 1/4-1/2 inch thick. It doesn’t have to be perfect and this depends on how thick you want the straws. Using a pizza cutter, cut straight strips of dough. Spray a baking sheet or wire rack with non-stick spray and lay dough on top. The strips of dough may rip, but just pinch them back together (you can see this in a photo above).
- Bake for 12-15 minutes. Let cool completely before moving from the sheet/rack. Some pieces will stay intact and others will break – just add them all to a bowl.
Notes
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104 Comments on “Easy Whole Wheat Cheese Straws.”
Those are awesome – the Husband would love these. If you’re wondering why I always say “the husband” and not ME, it’s because I can’t eat them. Boooo – however, I can be inspired to make a gluten free/vegan version! Wahoo!
These look so cute! I love the crumb rejects! Rejects don’t count ;)
CHEESE! <3
I want to make those! Those look so good and with out all of the preservatives in cheese it’s, so clearly you can eat even more!
Excellent point. :)
I LOVE cheez its!
I laugh out loud every time Mr. How Sweet is mentioned. I love your stories of him. He is ridiculous, and endearing. And you are so tolerant, and easy-going! haha! He is lucky he found someone so wonderful, and talented (I need a cheese straw, at 6 a.m.) to put up with his antics!!
Hahaha… thanks! He puts up with a lot from me too. ;)
So cute!! We have family friends who give us homemade cheese straws EVERY Christmas, and they are so good!
Oh man. I gotta make these things. Can you use plain flour?
Yep, you can use all-purpose!
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Oh goodness we adore cheese straws. Seriously there are jars of them all over the house around the holidays…we must try these!
I might just have to give these another try! I made batch a while back and it was a fiasco! They were dry, too spicy, and I broke my cookie press trying to make wafers with the dough! Ugh! This looks much easier and tastier!
I love how they accidentally got a ribbon like. So cool! I hide whole wheat flour in everything – some people are just scared by the word whole wheat flour, but really so much of the time you can’t even tell the different.
My friend Chelsea recently posted a similiar recipe and I thought that ws impressive- I love your wiggly ones!
These look awesomeeeeee. Cheez-Its are one of my favorite snack foods. Love that these have WW flour!
Another day and another wonderful recipe! How fif you know I loved cheese so much! I love the effect from the wire racks. I think it gives the effect of crinkle cut french fries. So cute!
crumbs are definitely calorieless, and besides, these are whole wheat
these look too easy and too good to be true!
I should make these and impress the fam!
one could even argue that the smaller pieces are NEGATIVE calories…just think about it… ;)
i love telling myself the little pieces dont count :)
these look fantastic! so cute too!
What a fun treat. I love how they crinkled. I want to make these! I feel more confident since my cracker experiment
I think making crackers gave me more courage to do these too.
Yum! The fact that they are whole wheat makes it ok to eat a whole batch, right? =D
Of course.
These look so good! Great recipe :)
Whoa! These look super fun and tasty! I guess you can find a recipe for anything, eh? haha
Def going on my to-make list!
What a clever way to crickle the straws! They look goooood!
DELICIOUS on top of a salad or by themselves!i love that crinkle effect! you would never know that it was an accident!
I have never heard of such things, but anything like a Cheez It is okay with me!
I had only heard of them recently too!
Those look great. I’ve had a craving for Cheez-Its lately.
I fully expect a sleeve update!
I think the broken bits would look great on a salad. I love how they look in the jar, the waviness of them make them look almost like fries.
Didn’t think of that! They do!
What a serendipitous discovery to create “crinkle”-cut cheese straws! They look fantastic.
Thanks!
These cheese straws look amazing – I love the shape you created too. Must give ’em a whirl! XO
Those are so cute, especially with the little crinkles in them!! And I totally agree on the bit about the rejects :) Have a great day Jess!
Our food processor is tiny (mini-Cuisinart). Any way to make these without a processor? I’d love to have a cheesy snack to cut the sweetness of all our holiday baking!
You could try a blender, or even just mixing the dough in a bowl and cutting in the butter with 2 knives.
How cute I love the little crinkles!
Oh these look incredible! They look profesional..those crinkles look like they’d be so difficult to do when looking at the finished product but they came from such an easy concept. How cool! I’ve never had these before, I’ll have to give them a try!
Yes – so simple and just an accident. You must try!
These look so yummy and cute! Great Idea :)
Trader Joe’s sells these Cheddar Cheesesticks, although I think phyllo dough is used as well, but heck these are simple enough to make if you have flour and shredded cheese in your pantry and seriously who doesnt?!
Speaking of phyllo dough.. I want to make a late night snack Christmas Eve involving phyllo dough and cheese and meat… like instead of an apple turnover a cheesy/meaty log. Thoughts? Recipes?
I LOVE the fancy-pants wiggles. :D
Yum! When you said straw I was expecting you’d be able to suck out of it..haha
calorie-less eh? hehe
I have to bookmark this — such a fun little snack! and considering i have a whole grain goldfish obsession — these are PERFECT! <3
xoXOxo
Perfect snack food. Yum!
And Jessica, there’s gotta be a story behind cutting off Dale Earnhardt t-shirt sleeves… ;)
That’s so cool! I love the squigglyness. Yes, squigglyness.
I love the squigglyness too. And the word squigglyness.
this is a great recipe! I would love these, yum!
Ok, holy yum!! Adding this to my Christmas Day meal list!!!
Using the wire rack was a VERY happy accident– they look so fun in all their waviness!
When you’ll end up to amaze me?!?!? For sure I will try these cheese straws!
You had me at Cheez Its on a stick..must make these now! Actually I am hosting Christmas Eve at my house this year and I was trying to think of things to have out to much on besides standards like nuts and preztels…this is perfect and very timely. Thanks girl!
Make these!
Kinda reminds me of making homemade noodles, only you bake them instead of boiling. Neato.
Suzanne
Hehe – yes!
You had me at Cheez-Its! I will be trying these soon.
Oh how fun! I love making stuff that makes me feel like a little kid! :) I’m glad you made them squiggly! :)
Yummy. I love the crinkly effect. I also admire that you tested and retested the snickerdoodle recipe. I think that’s always the challenge about putting recipes out. If they don’t work, readers will tell you right away.
I have one chocolate muffin recipe I’ve wanted to blog about forever but I know it is STILL not perfect, so I keep tinkering and tinkering. One of these days…