Lavash Crackers (BBA Challenge)

You can put high heels on a poodle, but that won't make it a hooker. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

You can photoshop your face onto Ernie's cartoon body, but that won't make you a Keebler elf. ~ Mags

This week's Bread Baker's Apprentice challenge has taught me that in the future, I shall leave the cracker making to the fine folks at Keebler.

While I didn't think these lavash crackers suffered in esthetics, I found them lacking greatly in taste and texture. Hubby ate one. I ate a half of one. The rest went in the trash.

I didn't have high hopes for this recipe from the start, but I promised myself to not skip another recipe in the book, and in all fairness probably didn't attack this challenge with my usual enthusiasm.

The dough was a breeze to work with and rolled out wonderfully. I decided to cut only one half of the pan into cracker-size pieces and left the other half to snap into shards. I used Mr. Reinhart's suggestions to top the dough: poppy seeds, sesame seeds, cumin seeds, paprika and coarse salt.

After reading the side notes in the book and then realizing that this particular dough can also be used for pita bread, it makes more sense to me now that I merely had a different expectation from this recipe than what was intended. One man's cracker is another gal's flatbread, I suppose.

Next week's challenge is light wheat bread and I'm thrilled that we'll finally be using some whole grains!