Thinking forward to those days of baking warm chocolate chip cookies for your little one? Well, you can bake baby's first cookie today! These teething cookies are tasty for baby, easy to make, and I have found them to be a great distraction for baby to sit and gnaw at while I cook or prepare his real meal.
Mix the following ingredients in a mixing bowl:
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup oatmeal or rice cereal
1/4 cup apple juice
1/8 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup water
Cinnamon (as much as you feel comfortable adding - this is where the real flavor is)
Knead dough on a floured surface, adding extra flour as needed. Flatten out with a rolling pin {these will not rise, so knead as thin as you want your cookies to be}. Cut into shapes with a pizza cutter or cookie cutter.
Bake for 25-30 minutes, until hard. Store in an airtight container.
*Yields about 12-18 cookies, depending on the size and shape you cut
*Cookies freeze well
Have you tried adding pureed food/mashed bananas to it?
ReplyDeleteJulie, I haven't tried that. Sounds like that would taste good! I'm not sure if you would be able to store them for as long, though... Definitely worth trying!
ReplyDeleteHow much do these soften when baby chews? I've purchased some that are like biscuits and stay hard forever and some that get really mushy really quickly.
ReplyDeleteHi Janet, they are in between what you described, but on the 'get mushy' end of the spectrum.
ReplyDeleteI just came back to your blog to find something like this! They are currently in the oven, though I didn't have an ingredient so I had to make a substitution and they might flop, we'll see how it goes! Hope all is well with you Amy :)
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