Copycat Mary’s Gone Crackers!

Copycat Mary’s Gone Crackers is the recipe today.  When you decide to eat a diet of just wholesome foods, it’s hard to find a cracker that fits this criteria.

It was quite disappointing to read labels and find most crackers contained added sugar or highly processed grains.  I also keep wanted to find a healthy cracker that my picky toddlers would eat.

I finally found a good one in Mary’s Gone Crackers.  They are organic, vegan, gluten free and non GMO verified.  I love them and so do my kids, but at $4 a box, they can be quite pricey.

Since we go through them so fast, I thought I would try making a homemade Mary’s Gone Cracker version.  They came out really good!

You also should try my Homemade Fig Newtons and my Homemade Nutri-Grain Bars.

 

Copycat Mary's Gone Crackers

They are pretty easy to make and you can add in your own ingredients to customize your favorite flavors.  It’s also a great recipe to do with your kids.  Not really a lot of messy ingredients or measuring.

I find when I get my kids involved in the prep work, they are more likely to eat the food.

For starters, I just did a multi-seed cracker.  I really love their herb flavor, so that will be my next batch.  I also threw some chia seeds because they are so good for you.

I try to toss them in everything from baked goods to smoothies and in between.  To help keep costs down, I bought all of the ingredients out of the bulk bins at Whole Foods.  Here is my recipe.

Copycat Mary’s Gone Crackers!

Homemade Mary’s Gone Crackers!

Prep Time 15 min Cook Time 30 min Serves 25-30 crackers     adjust servings

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. In a food processor , combine the quinoa and rice into a mushy consistency.
  3. Add in all the seeds and salt with a bit of water and pulse until you have a mushy ball.
  4. Get out a sheet of parchment paper about the size of a baking sheet and lay it on the counter.
  5. Take half of the mixture and place it on the parchment.
  6. Using a rolling pin and some plastic wrap, roll out the mixture, putting the plastic wrap between the rolling pin and the mixture. That way, you can roll it out without it getting stuck.
  7. Roll as thin as possible and then transfer the parchment and rolled mixture onto a baking sheet.
  8. Repeat the same steps with the second half.
  9. Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes.
  10. Pull them out and carefully flip them and bake for another 12 minutes.
  11. When they are done, carefully break them into bite sized pieces and bake for an additional 10 minutes or until the pieces are crispy.

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Recipe Notes

I got about 25 – 30 crackers out of my batch. They should keep for a week or so. Enjoy!

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135 thoughts to “Copycat Mary’s Gone Crackers!”

  1. Just made these and they're great! I did add hemp hearts as well as some garlic and herbs. My toddler loves them also! Will definitely make these regularly! Thank you for the recipe!! ;)
    1. Thanks Adrienne! I'm happy you enjoyed them. Your recipes look amazing as well. I will be trying those almond joy bars soon. :)
  2. Made these but the crackers are still pretty chewy. I tried them after their third trip into the oven, but figured they needed to stay in for a little longer as they were pretty chewy. I popped them back in for an additional 7-8 minutes and let them cool down, but they're still pretty chewy. The only crispy parts are on the very outside - any recommendations?
    1. Hmm... I'm not sure why that happened. Maybe you can turn down the heat to about 200 and cook them for a bit longer. By turning down the heat, you will not burn them.
  3. These are fabulous! I've made them twice now (total "Mary's Gone" junkie) and I think the key is to roll it out really thin. Couple of tips that helped me make them even more perfect: When I take them out to break them up for their final bake, I use scissors to cut them into relatively even sizes. Also, like I do with Granola, when they are done with their final bake, I turn off the oven and leave them in their for at least a couple of hours so they really get crisp. Yum!
  4. I've made these a few times already! They're delicious & taste just like Mary's...my husband even likes them. I think the key is spreading out the mixture really thin with the rolling pin, so that they get crispy...thanks for this recipe, I plan on making this regularly.
    1. I'm glad you like the recipe! Yes the mixture does need to be rolled out very thin. Currently, I am trying to work on a homemade version of Beanitos. I love them, but they are so expensive as well.
        1. Store them in an airtight container with some rice scattered at the bottom. The rice will help absorb the moisture and keep them crunchy.
  5. This recipe is amazing! I doubled the portions and got four batches. I then experimented with different flavours for each batch. In one I put nutritional yeast, red chilli powder, onion flakes, and garlic salt and eliminated the sesame seeds. I added onion flakes, caraway seeds, and garlic powder with dried basil to another. In total I was able to roll the batches out thin enough to yield 40 crackers per batch. Next time I'm going to try an asian flavour by adding soya sauce, with mirrin instead of water for the binding then place sea week on top of the batch. I also scored the shapes not all the way but enough to be able to break them into small triangles. Thank you so very much!
  6. My 2nd try at a copy of the original (I still have most of the first box I bought!) worked out very nicely by simply making a wet enough mix to drop off a teaspoon at the right height into a nice, round plop. Dehydrate at 200 degrees for a couple hours or however long it takes, and that's it. Also made some with yam, flax and poppyseed, and that's very tasty. (I raise my own poppyseed, but whatever works!)
  7. Thanks so much for getting the basics down for this recipe. My revisions were: I had everything but quinoa so I used Kasha. I did not precook the rice or kasha and instead ground into a coarse flour yeilding just under a cup of each. I then added all of the seeds in the quantities posted. My spices/herbs were garlic powder, cayenne powder, thyme, and a fresh ground italian herb mixture. For the liquid I used equal parts of water and tamari adding slowly until a mushy enough texture that I could spread onto the parchment. I don't have a rolling pin so used my hands and got it fairly thin. Baked per temp and time in recipe. I used my pizza cutter to cut into pieces when I reached that point in the instructions. I didn't think my husband would like them but we both really like them a lot. I am going to pick up the quinoa today so it will be on had for the next batch!
    1. You are so welcome! I am glad you enjoyed the recipe. It is so versatile. I have experimented with several different variations myself!
  8. Hi! I would love to try your recipe to take these crackers camping. :) My toddler loves crackers but is not fond of the texture of grains, so I thought I'd give this a try. Plus, I'm hoping they can be stored in a container and not refrigerated.....how do you store them? Do you refrigerate them? When you say they keep for about a week or so, would that work just inside a container, do you think? Thanks so much! :)
    1. I think these might be okay outside the refrigerator for a few days. Store them in an airtight container with some rice scattered on the bottom. The rice will help absorb the moisture and keep the crackers dry.

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