Cookie Thursday 2/26/26- Cheese dudes

The oven continues to perform well. Whatever talking to it got, it embraced.

This week is a continuation of the Why is There So Much Cheese sorta theme for February. I made Cheese Dudes, a recipe I first became aware of late last year.

Have I said how glad I am to have a working oven?

And dishwasher?

Something fun about the dishwasher, if I choose the power dry setting, it opens itself up a crack when the cycle is completed. Very cool.

Cheese dudes are an offshoot of the cheddar penny. That is to say it is a cheddar cracker.

With crispy rice!

I feel like I’ve made versions of this before. A lot.

This recipe called for completely melted butter, which is not what I’ve done in the past.

I did take creative liberties and add an additional 1/4 c melted butter because the dough was too dry and wouldn’t hold together. I am glad that I did. The crispy rice sure uses a lot of liquid to become part of the dough.

I also mixed all the ingredients in my big red Tupperware bowl so I would have room to get my hands dirty and knead the dough into submission.

I will be making these again, but with more cayenne powder. I added some and you can barely tell.