If you want to give your children a snack or a healthy sweet, you just have to start cooking with them. It is not necessary to be a great expert in the kitchen, because with few ingredients and in a very simple way, you can prepare a very healthy and delicious sweet for the whole family. Because taking care of yourself, protecting the health of those you love the most, is not at odds with enjoying yourself, and eating a sweet from time to time is a delicious way to enjoy life.
You can choose from many ingredients to prepare healthy cookies with children, fruits that are already overripe, nuts or seeds, for example. In most of the recipes that you will find, you can easily add or modify any of the ingredients. Try different recipes and choose with the little ones family favorites.
Healthy cookies for kids
If you want to make cookies suitable for babies or very young children, choose those with the fewest ingredients possible. If the little one already eats fruits like bananas, you can make some very simple cookies with a couple of ripe bananas and rolled oats. In addition, in the easy recipes section de Madres Hoy, you can find many more recipes, like these Halloween cookies.
Oatmeal cookies and applesauce
These cookies are the simplest and most delicious thing you can do with children. You don't need more than two ingredients, rolled oats and applesauce. But yes, always use a homemade applesauce, this is the way to prepare it.
- Homemade apple compote: We will need about 5 or 6 sweet apples, type pippin. To prepare the compote, you just have to peel and core the apples. Tdrizzle and put in a saucepan over low heat, stirring regularly until obtaining an apple cream of the desired thickness. The longer the apple is cooked, the thicker it will be.
Ingredients for cookies:
If you want some sweeter cookies, pYou can add a few tablespoons of honey or agave syrup. But with good sweet apples it won't be necessary.
- 200 gr of homemade applesauce
- 100 gr of coatmeal oppos
Preparation:
- In a large bowl we mix the oat flakes and the apple compote and stir well.
- We cover the container with plastic wrap and we reserve in the refrigerator for a few hours, minimum 2 or 3.
- The longer it is refrigerated the mixture, the easier it can be manipulated.
- To make the cookies, preheat the oven to 200ºC.
- In the oven tray we place a sheet of greaseproof paperWe are carefully taking portions of the dough and placing it on the tray.
- With the spoon we crush the balls to obtain the desired shape.
- We bake for about 20 or 25 minutes and ready.
Almond and oatmeal cookies
This is the recipe perfect for those who don't have an oven at home, because with a microwave you can also prepare delicious and healthy sweets, such as these healthy cookies. Although it is also perfect for everyone, because they are delicious and perfect cookies for the whole family.
Ingredients:
- 30 gr almond flour
- about 10 gr of oatmeal
- 2 tablespoons of Chocolate chips
- 40 gr of almond butter or peanut (preferably homemade)
- 50 cl of vegetable drink almond (or milk)
- a tablespoon of miel or agave syrup
Preparation:
- In a bowl we mix the almond flour, oatmeal flakes and chocolate chips.
- We mix and then toadd the almond butter.
- Now add the vegetable drink or milk and we mix again to incorporate all the ingredients well.
- Finally, we add the honey or the chosen sweetener and we finished mixing.
- In a dish, we place a sheet of greaseproof paper.
- With a spoon we are taking portions of dough and make a small ball, place on the plate and carefully squash slightly with the spoon.
- In each batch we can do about 4 or 5 cookies.
- We put the plate in the microwave and put cook 2 minutes at maximum power.
- We take out the cookies and place on a rack so that they cool down without taking on moisture.
And voila, we already have some healthy, rich and very easy to prepare cookies with children or to enjoy with them.