Cheese cracker

Not to be confused with Cheese and crackers.

The cheese cracker is a type of cracker prepared using cheese as a main ingredient.^[1][2] Additional common cracker ingredients are typically used, such as grain, flour, shortening, leavening, salt and various seasonings.^[3][4][5][6] The ingredients are formed into a dough, and the individual crackers are then prepared.^[3][7] Some cheese crackers are prepared using fermented dough.^[4] Cheese crackers are typically baked.^[1][6] Another method of preparing cheese crackers involves placing cheese atop warm crackers.^[8] Cheese crackers have been described as a "high-calorie snack", which is due to a higher fat content compared to other types of crackers.^[5]

Cheese cracker

Homemade cheese crackers spiced with rosemary and cinnamon
Type	Cracker
Course	Main Meal (in some countries, served as a special course)
Variations	Goldfish, Cheddars, Cheese Nips, Cheez-It
Media: Cheese cracker

Uses

In addition to being a snack food, cheese cracker crumbs are sometimes used in recipes as an ingredient, and crumbs or whole crackers are sometimes used as a garnish on various foods.^[9][10][11] Cheese crackers are also sometimes served as a side dish to accompany foods.^[7]

Commercial brands

Examples of mass-produced commercial cheese cracker brands include Better Cheddars, Cheddars, Cheese Nips, Cheez-It and Goldfish.^[1]

• Better Cheddars is a brand of baked Cheddar cheese snack cracker manufactured by Nabisco, a subsidiary of Mondelēz International.^[1][12][13]
• Cheddars are a brand of baked Cheddar cheese-flavoured British-style savoury biscuit, having a granular crumbly texture unlike crackers which are harder, more brittle and flaky in texture. They are manufactured by McVitie's.
• Cheese Nips are small cheese-flavored crackers^[14] manufactured by Mondelēz International under its brand, Nabisco.
• Cheez-It is a cheese cracker manufactured by the Kellogg Company through its Sunshine Biscuits division. Cheez-Its were introduced in 1921 by the Green and Green company of Dayton, Ohio, and through a series of corporate mergers, the brand was acquired by the Sunshine subdivision of Keebler Company in 1996. Keebler, in turn, was acquired by Kellogg in 2001.
• Goldfish are fish-shaped cheese crackers manufactured by Pepperidge Farm, a division of the Campbell Soup Company.^[15]

• Cheese cracker brands
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  Original-flavor Mini Cheddars at left and BBQ flavor (right)
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  Cheese Nips
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  Regular Cheez-It crackers
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  Goldfish

See also

• Food portal

• Cheese and crackers
• List of crackers