Cheese Crisps
These simple cheese crisps have lots of flavor and plenty of crunch, thanks to a secret ingredient, crispy rice cereal! The crisps can be made with cheddar, gruyere, parmesan, and many other types of cheese.
Everyone has had a cheese crisp before (or at least I should hope so), but these aren’t your ordinary cheese crisp. These have crispy rice cereal in them, so they have extra crackly crispiness and pop. You can really use whatever kind of cheese you want here, as long as it’s some sort of melty variety. I suggest gruyere or cheddar, but I’m sure something like a fontina would work great too.
Cheese Crisps
Ingredients
- 7 tbsp butter at room temperature
- 8 oz gruyere or cheddar cheese shredded
- 3.5 oz all purpose flour, by weight (about 2/3 cup, measured)
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup crispy rice cereal
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Beat together the butter and cheese until combined. Add the flour, cayenne, and salt and beat until you get a crumbly dough. Add the rice cereal and beat briefly just to combine (don’t overbeat or you might break up the rice crisps).
- Use a disher to portion out 1 tbsp amounts of dough, and place onto a sheet pan (it will look like a pile of rubble). Use a fork to hash and compact it down. Bake for about 15 minutes, until lightly browned. Let them cool, and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition is estimated using a food database and is only intended to be used as a guideline for informational purposes.
31 Comments on “Cheese Crisps”
what’s the calorie count and serving size?
Hi Kelly, I really like this website because you can copy and paste whole recipes into it and it will calculate nutritional info for you: http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php
Thank you! Do you know how many of them is 19 grams worth?
I think the easiest way to calorie count them is to just take the total number of calories calculated and divide by however many you make (because size can vary).
The crispy rice cereal is an innovative addition – fun!
They look so toasty and crispy-your picture really does make me crave these. I would have never thought of using rice cereal, but it does guarantee the crispiness! Delicious post-thanks for sharing.
Ooh, these look awesome! I would dash to the kitchen right now if I had rice krispy’s on hand!
Fantastic recipe!
🙂 Mandy
What’s not to like?? These look and sound seriously awesome. I’d eat them all.
This honestly looks so delicious!
You could sell these – you know that don’t you? I would certainly buy them! YUMMY!
What a fabulous and so unexpected twist to a cheese crisp! I love it!!
I like the addition of rice cereal to make these extra crispy! My kids love all things cheese and crackers so I will be trying this one!
Fantastic! I LOVE cheese crisps and yours are picture perfect!
rispy cheese is truly one of the most incredible tasting things I can think of.
I don’t think I have ever had cheese crisps before. I’m thinking it’s time to change that! These sound awesome!
I never imagine adding crips rice to a crisp cheese…you have very original ideas…!!!
Those look great and are probably the perfect texture too a little airy.
Joanne:
These look so good!
If I have the ingredients on hand I’m going to make these with supper tonight.
Love the idea of the rice krispies.
Thanks
These look great, Joanne. Perfect with the grapes — another beautiful photo. I’m going to try your plus rice recipe next time I make cheese straws.