Graham Cracker Chocolate Chip Cookies

Graham Cracker Chocolate Chip Cookies are an easy cookie recipe made with just 6 ingredients and no all purpose flour.

July 5th is National Graham Cracker Day! You must celebrate by munching on some graham crackers. Better yet, make s’mores, s’mores brownies or these Graham Cracker Chocolate Chip Cookies!

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“That would be cool if the earth’s crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.”

-Mitch Hedberg

The History of Graham Crackers:

From SmithsonianMag.com

For many people, graham crackers are simply a vehicle for delivering marshmallows and chocolate. But the original vision for graham crackers had little to do with s’mores. The crackers were marketed and designed as a diet food to help people cut down on their sexual urges.

Like many highly religious people, Sylvester Graham (yes, the cracker is named after him) thought the world had a problem with immorality. In the mid-1800s, the Presbyterian minister set out to find something to help those suffering from the sins of sexuality, in particular. He also happened to be quite interested in diets. A vegetarian himself, he believed that eating foods without spice or sugar, without processed flour and without chemicals was the way to avoid thoughts of sex. To help people follow that diet, he created crackers. Graham crackers.

Today, graham crackers do have both sugar and spices in them. But Graham’s original crackers were pretty awful to eat. The unrefined flour made them a tiny bit sweet and a tiny bit nutty. But mostly they were bland.

Graham crackers were originally made by bakeries and independent operations. By 1925, the Graham cracker we know and love today was created and sold under the name Sugar Honey Grahams. The name was changed to Honey Maid in 1976.

Ingredients needed:

• sweetened condensed milk
• vanilla extract
• salt
• graham crackers
• mini chocolate chips
• walnuts

How to make Graham Cracker Chocolate Chip Cookies:

The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, combine the sweetened condensed milk with the vanilla and salt. Stir in the graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips and walnuts. Drop the cracker mixture by heaping tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets.

Bake in batches for 11 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on the pan for 3 minutes.

Then move to a wire rack to cool completely.

These are delicious and non-traditional chocolate chip cookies. They’ll remind you a little bit of s’mores because of the use of graham crackers and chocolate. Enjoy!

Fun Facts About Graham Crackers:

• In 1915, a box of graham crackers sold for 10 cents.
• Graham crackers have been used in s’mores for 87 years. The first known recipe for s’mores was published in a Girl Scouts book from 1927. 
• Graham cracker crumbs are used to make crusts for pies and cheesecakes.
• Cinnamon graham crackers were marketed in 1986.
• Low Fat graham crackers were added to the collection in 1995.
• You can make graham crackers at home!