Mini Spelt Cheese Grissini, savory little breadsticks
Mini Spelt Cheese Grissini are short, crunchy breadsticks from South Tyrol, baked from spelt with plenty of Emmental cheese and Italian herbs. A savory hand-held snack with the zesty flavor of cheese, oregano, and basil. Grissini in miniature format, completely wheat-free.
Mini Spelt Cheese Grissini are the small, cheesy siblings of classic grissini—short sticks for snacking instead of long breadsticks. Ultner Brot bakes them using spelt flour and wholemeal spelt with 28% Emmental cheese, seasoned with oregano, basil, and pepper. Savory, crunchy, and just the right size for a handful.
Emmental and Mediterranean herbs
What makes these mini grissini so savory is the high cheese content; 28% Emmental is packed into the dough, giving the sticks their tangy, nutty cheese flavor.
Emmental is the ideal cheese for this—mild enough not to overpower, and savory enough to hold its own in the crispy dough. During baking, it caramelizes slightly on the surface, adding a delicate roasted note to the sticks. You can taste in every single stick that they are made with real cheese rather than just cheese flavoring.
Added to this are herbs of Italian cuisine, oregano and basil, a hint of pepper, and a few sesame seeds. The spelt dough is prepared with extra virgin olive oil, shaped into short sticks, and baked until crispy and the edges of the cheese turn golden brown.
Savory, crunchy, and zesty, they break with a satisfying snap. Because they are baked with spelt instead of wheat, they have a slightly nutty base note that allows the cheese flavor to shine through particularly well.
The perfect snack for an aperitivo or small hands
You can eat mini grissini straight from a bowl: one grab, one snap, and you're already reaching for the next. A perfect finger food—nothing drips, there isn't much crumbling, and no one needs a knife or fork.
They are quickly polished off during an aperitivo with a glass of white wine or Prosecco, they look great on a party buffet alongside olives and cheese cubes, and they make a savory snack for children's lunchboxes. The short shape fits in any small hand and any bag. On an antipasti platter, they sit between pickled vegetables and salami; broken over a tomato salad, they add a nice crunch; and with an after-work beer, they are empty faster than you'd like.
If you prefer a pizza flavor, you'll find their siblings as Mini Spelt Pizza Grissini with tomato. And if you prefer the long sticks, reach for the Spelt Grissini with Sesame.
Baked by Ultner in South Tyrol
Ultner Brot bakes these mini grissini in St. Walburg in the Ulten Valley, where the Schwienbacher family has been making bread and pastries since 1919.
Master baker Hannes Schwienbacher runs the house in the fourth generation; the bakery has been working exclusively with organic ingredients since 1982. These little cheese sticks are also made from the best organic ingredients, with real Emmental, quality olive oil, and spelt from the region, ground in their own mill in the valley, where about 40 people work in the bakery.
Over the years, the small village bakery has become South Tyrol's best-known organic baker with over 100 types of bread and baked goods. You can find the 150g pack of mini grissini along with the entire Ultner range of breads, snacks, and sweet pastries on the shelf right next door.
