About Ivy Manning

Ivy Manning

Ivy Manning is a food writer and weekly columnist for the Oregonian. Her work has also appeared in Cooking Light, Sunset Magazine, and Fine Cooking. She’s the author of nearly half a dozen cookbooks, including her most recent title, Crackers & Dips. She lives in Portland, OR. @ivy_manning

Different shapes of homemade animal crackers lying on a chalkboard background.

Homemade Animal Crackers

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Made from scratch with natural ingredients, these are gonna remake all your memories of stale, bland animal crackers in the circus box.

A pile of homemade graham crackers on a marble table with a glass of milk nearby

Homemade Graham Crackers

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This graham cracker recipe has it all over store-bought crackers. No contest. And a glass of milk on the side doesn’t do any harm.