In the Kitchen with Abby! Recipe: Abby’s Zesty Cheese Straws
Oven Temperature: 350°F
Preptime: 30 minutes
Cook time: 15 to 18 minutes
Serves: (2) dozen snackables
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups grated Cheese (sharp cheddar)
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 6 tbsp. Cold butter
- ½ tsp. Salt
- ⅛ tsp. Cayenne pepper
- 1 ½ tbsp. Milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Add flour, butter, salt, sugar and cayenne in a large bowl. Chop the butter into slices to make mixing easier. Pulse ingredients in a food processor until mixture resembles a coarse meal. If you do not own a food processor, use a pastry blender to cut and mix ingredients together.
- Sprinkle milk into the mixture and pulse (or knead) until dough forms together.
- Place dough onto a lightly-floured surface. With a lightly-floured rolling pin roll out dough into a 12-by-10 inch rectangle (⅛ inch thick).
- Cut dough into strips about ⅓ of an inch wide. Transfer to a parchment covered baking pan, ¼ inches apart.
- Bake until golden brown, 15 to 18 minutes
- Cool completely on baking sheet about 15 minutes
- Enjoy 🙂
About the Contributor
Abby Beegle, Columns Co Editor-in-Chief
Abigail Beegle is currently a sophomore at Mayfield senior school. She has been on the newspaper staff in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years. Abby is...