Jennifer Garner Just Shared Her Family's Favorite Snack—and Ina Garten Loves It, Too

With the weather cooling down, the oven will be turned on more and more. And according to Jennifer Garner, it's the perfect time to bake a crunchy favorite for her household.

Back at it with another installment of her "Pretend Cooking Show," the actor shared how to make her family's current go-to snack: pizza crackers.

"This is a weekly staple in my house," Garner wrote in the caption of her new Instagram video. "Yes, when you get down to it, it's pizza without the toppings—but it is delicious, simple to make and keeps well for a couple of days."

Here's how to re-create Garner's five-ingredient recipe that's perfect for making ahead of time.

Here are the ingredients you need to make Garner's recipe, adapted from a Cooks Illustrated pizza dough recipe:

• 1¼ cups warm water
• ½ cup beer
• 1 envelope active dry yeast
• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 4 cups bread flour, plus extra for dusting
• 1½ teaspoons salt
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for bowl
• Thyme and rosemary (fresh or dry, to taste)
• Salt and pepper

Basic ingredients like salt, pepper, oil and water aside, you only need five ingredients to whip up these crackers, making them especially easy.

Garner says you can use a baking sheet to bake your dough, if that's what you have on hand, "but nothing works as well as a pizza stone," she says in the video while preheating her stone in the oven, set at 500°F. Garner goes on to say that a pizza stone will turn your oven into a pizzeria—OK, we're sold!

But first, it's time to make the cracker dough. Combining her warm water and beer together—saying that the beer adds, nodding to one of Ina Garten's famous lines, a "depth of flavor"—she pours half of the mixture into her stand mixer before adding in her active dry yeast. After mixing on low, she adds the rest of her beer-water combo into the mixer with 2 cups of the bread flour.

As the mixer continues running, Garner adds in the 1½ teaspoons of salt and 2 tablespoons of olive oil before mixing in the rest of her flour. Once the dough starts sticking to the sides of the bowl, she switches out the normal mixing head for her KitchenAid dough hook attachment.

While the hook works into the dough, Garner goes to her herb garden (naturally) and picks thyme and rosemary to season the snack. In the ingredients section, she writes that dry rosemary and thyme will work as well.

She chops her herbs before adding them to the running mixer along with a drizzle of olive oil. Then, once she oils a bowl, she stops the mixer. After quickly kneading the dough, she lets it sit in the oiled bowl to rise.

After an hour, Garner takes her now-risen dough and divides it into three pieces, letting each dough section's gluten relax for 5 to 10 minutes.

"Then it's really easy to pull out into the shape that you want," Garner explains.

While shaping her pizza dough, Garner defends what will soon be an amorphous base for her crackers.

"I don't want to constrain it by being like: 'Be a circle!'" Garner jokes. We're definitely fans of imperfect-looking deliciousness!

Then, Garner places the flattened dough pieces one at a time on the hot pizza stone or baking sheet until it bubbles up, only taking 1 to 2 minutes apiece. Then, season with your choice herbs and seasonings—Garner goes for her leftover thyme and rosemary, Parmesan cheese and a bit of olive oil before placing it back in the oven for a few more minutes.

You can either use the rest of the dough to make more pizza crackers, or save it for making pizza later. Either way, that's all it takes to make the Garner family's favorite snack—and it has the Ina Garten seal of approval, as the Barefoot Contessa wrote that she "loves this" in the video's comment section.

"If someone's home sick from school, this is what they ask for," Garner says before diving into the fresh pizza cracker. "My kids loved this before they liked herbs on anything else."

For more homemade cracker recipes, try our 4-Ingredient Homemade Cheese Crackers for a cheesy bite.

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