We offer a recipe for homemade cookies for babies, according to which you can prepare a treat for your baby at home. In stores, such a dessert costs incredible amounts of money, and for 100-200 g, so it is best and healthiest to prepare it at home using improvised ingredients. It is in this case that you will know exactly what is included in this delicacy, excluding dyes, thickeners, palm oil and other harmful additives!
Baby cookies are prepared for babies in just 30-35 minutes. Some chefs recommend adding only the yolk from a chicken egg, but the white is in no way inferior to it in terms of usefulness, and often even less allergic, so you shouldn’t discount it when making cookies!
When can you give cookies to a baby?
When you, as a mother, see that the baby is ready for this. Cookies are introduced into the baby’s diet after the introduction of the main complementary foods - vegetables and cereals. The age at which cookies are introduced into a child’s diet depends on whether the baby was previously breastfed or bottle-fed, since the timing varies.
Another important indicator of the introduction of cookies and other foods into complementary foods is the presence of teeth in the baby. But not for the purpose of gnawing cookies; at the initial stage, it is better for the baby to soak the cookies with milk or formula, but because it is believed that the appearance of teeth is one of the indicators that your baby is ready to introduce complementary foods.
The approximate age for introducing cookies into the diet for infants is 8 months.
Ingredients for 15-18 pcs.:
chicken egg - 1 pc.
butter – 50 g
baking powder – 0.5 tsp.
wheat flour – 1 tbsp.
granulated sugar - 3 tbsp.
salt – 2 pinches
Baby cookies for babies, recipe:
Melt the butter in a microwave oven or in a water bath, but not to a boil. It should come to room temperature so that the chicken egg introduced into it does not curl.
Add granulated sugar and salt to the butter.
Add chicken egg. Beat everything with a fork until fluffy foam.
Pour baking powder into the egg mixture and stir. You should not replace baking powder with baking soda slaked with vinegar - children don’t need extra acid in a dessert.
Add wheat flour in portions and knead into a thick shortbread dough.
It should be plastic and not stick to your hands. Let the dough rest slightly by placing it in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.
Then take it out and, pinching off small pieces from the dough ball, roll them into small round ropes. You can pass the dough through a meat grinder with a cookie attachment, you can simply roll out the dough and cut out figures from it using molds, but the easiest and most convenient way for a child to create is small flagella. They easily fit into a child's palm. Place the pieces on parchment paper and place in the oven for 15-20 minutes at 180C. There is no need to grease the paper, since the dough already contains fat.
If your baby already eats berries with appetite, it’s time to offer him more nutritious complementary foods - baby cookies. Stores now offer a wide selection of cookies for children under one year old: you can buy special foreign baked goods or ordinary biscuits. But it’s undoubtedly better if you make baby baked goods yourself - at least you’ll know that they are palm oil-free cookies.
This amount of ingredients is designed for a small test portion of cookies (about 20 pcs.). If your child likes this baking, next time you can safely double the amount of ingredients!
Cookies for children under one year old - photo recipe:
1. We will not need cold butter: it is better to take it out of the refrigerator in advance and put it in a warm place. When the butter has softened, you can transfer it to a bowl and mash it with a fork until smooth.
2. Break the egg into another separate bowl and leave only the yolk. You don't need any protein for baby cookies. Stir the yolk with a fork.
3. Pour flour into a large bowl. It is advisable to sift it first.
4. Add soft butter to the flour and thoroughly grind these two ingredients. It will be difficult to do this with a spoon, so it is better to stir with your hand.
5. Grind the flour and butter with sugar and mix the dough again.
6. At the very end, add the yolk to the baby cookie dough and knead the dough thoroughly with your hand.
7. Form the dough into a ball and put it in the refrigerator for an hour. It is advisable to cover the bowl with the dough with a lid or cling film.
8. Take the dough out of the refrigerator. Using a special cookie attachment, pass the dough through a meat grinder. We get curly pieces of dough.
9. Place baking paper on a baking sheet and place pieces of dough on top of it. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and bake baby cookies for 20 minutes. There is no need to brown the cookies too much - they will be healthier if they remain pale.
Cookies are a sweet dessert, especially for children under one year of age. Mom needs to try to prepare a high-quality and healthy product herself.
Flour products contain many B vitamins, PP, potassium, phosphorus, iron and organic acids. Cookies are a source of energy for children. The dish is enriched with useful substances by additional components that are added during baking - berries, nuts, dried fruits. The product contains a lot of calories - 100 g contains 400 kcal. It all depends on the ingredients.
Introducing cookies into your diet too early can be harmful.
- There are no hypoallergenic cookies. Therefore, any kind of them can cause an allergic reaction.
- The sugar content interferes with the absorption of vitamins, which are so necessary for a growing body.
- The vegetable protein of cereal plants - gluten - is very often not tolerated by the body of young children. Therefore, a few minutes of joy for a child from a product can result in problems with the digestive system.
- When foods with added sugar are introduced early, the child's sense of taste changes. In the future, it will be more difficult to teach him to eat healthy.
Manufacturers offer a wide range of children's cookies that can be added to any dish or taken with you on the road. In order not to harm your health, you need to know at what months you are allowed to give cookies to your child.
The best time to introduce cookies is considered to be after 12 months. Due to the whims and refusal of porridge for children under one year old, you should not replace it with cookies. You can offer fruits or berries.
What choice to make
You can buy cookies for one-year-old babies. But you should carefully and carefully choose the product.
- The best option would be cookies biscuits. It contains milk and flour. Therefore, it can be given to infants if there is no allergy to cow's milk protein. The product is hypoallergenic and low-calorie.
- Popular straw, which is made from flour, water and a small amount of fat. But in order to get a brown color, the straws are fried and treated with alkali. Therefore, the product should not be given to a child with low stomach acidity.
- Oatmeal The cookies contain a little fat and contain oats, which are so beneficial for the child’s body. From the wide variety of oatmeal cookies, you need to make a quality and safe choice. The color should be pale, without a glossy sheen. The smell should clearly capture the taste of oatmeal.
- Sugar shortbread Cookies contain a lot of fat and sugar. High-quality cookies should have a smooth surface, a clear pattern and a ruddy color. If the edges are burnt, then you should discard the product. It is better to choose butter cookies, without additives (for example, strawberry or strawberry). It should not be given to children who are prone to rapid weight gain.
- Many parents buy their child crackers, thinking that they do little harm. They contain margarine and various food additives. The product turns out to be fatty and high in calories. Crackers with salt interfere with the proper functioning of metabolic processes in the body and cause thirst. It is better not to give them to a child under one year old.
- You should not give a child under one year old cookies with filling.
Chocolate glaze, jams, jellies can disrupt the normal functioning of the baby’s digestive organs and endocrine system.
Options for preparing delicious dishes
Carrot Cookies Recipe
Wash, peel and chop the carrots using a grater. To prepare the dough, you will need sugar - about 60 g, half a glass of vegetable oil, 10 g of baking powder, a glass of flour and the carrots themselves. Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Roll the resulting dough into medium-sized lumps. Place on a baking sheet, pressing down a little to form flat cakes. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for half an hour. When the cookies are slightly browned, reduce the temperature to 70 degrees.
Banana Cookie Recipe
Take 2-3 bananas and blend with a fork or blender until smooth. Add oatmeal (about 2 cups), some raisins, previously soaked in water, butter and half a glass of milk. Mix the resulting mass well. Use a spoon to place the dough onto a baking sheet, making small cakes. Baking time is 20 minutes.
This recipe can be used when preparing a dish for children under 12 months.
Cottage cheese cookie recipe
The dish is suitable for children who have already become familiar with cottage cheese.
Place the butter in the freezer for a while. After it hardens, grate it, add flour (200–300 g), cottage cheese, two egg yolks and a little sour cream.
Mix the resulting mass thoroughly and place in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Then roll out on the table and use a glass to make circles that are placed on a baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes at 200 degrees.
Oatmeal cookie recipe for children under one year old
Oatmeal is introduced into a child’s menu at 6-7 months, when they are introduced to other cereals. Around the age of one year, you can also give cookies made from this cereal.
Grind oatmeal (200 g) to flour. Add 3 tablespoons of wheat flour and a pinch of vanillin. In a separate container, combine butter (100 g), egg and 70 g of sugar. In another container, mix 2 tablespoons of sour cream and soda on the tip of a knife. Combine the resulting mixtures and add to the oatmeal dough. Spoon the mixture onto a baking sheet. Cooking time is 15 minutes.
Cookie recipe for small children with rice flour
Place butter (50 g) in the freezer. As soon as it is frozen, grate it, add 100 g of rice flour, 20 g of applesauce and two egg yolks (preferably quail). Knead the resulting dough and place it on a baking sheet. Baking time – 15 minutes.
Baby Formula Cookie Recipe
Dilute the mixture according to the instructions; you need 300 g of it. Pour water into a saucepan, add a little sugar. After the water boils, add butter (200 g). Cook the mixture until slightly thickened. Separately mix the mixture with cocoa and add to the syrup. Form cookies of any shape from the resulting mass. The finished product can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.
A mother can offer the best cookies to her little child by preparing the dish herself. The main thing is to choose a recipe that is age appropriate. The first complementary food should not contain fat, sugar and salt.
Cookies for babies under one year old cannot be called an ordinary treat. With the help of this crumbly delicacy, the baby learns the difficult art of chewing. The composition of baby cookies is similar to porridge for infants, and if you dilute it with mother’s milk or an adapted formula, you can get a portion of a delicious dessert.
The optimal period of acquaintance with cookies
Children's diets up to one year old are not varied, so babies are delighted to accept complementary foods in the form of sweet and tasty cookies. Many parents are in a hurry to speed up the discovery of new food and begin to introduce the product too early, which is not welcomed by pediatricians. Until a certain age, treats are extremely harmful, since sugar interferes with the absorption of beneficial vitamins. Cookies contain gluten, which is not dangerous for adults, but it may well cause intolerance to a number of foods in a child.
The older generation does not see anything wrong with giving a baby cookies from 5 months, which is absolutely wrong. Up to a year, sweet foods should be akin to pampering, and not form part of the children's menu. Even a small amount of sugar is harmful for infants, because it disrupts the process of developing immunity, which is established in the first months of life. Experts advise introducing your baby to cookies when he is at least 8 months old; ideally, it is better to wait up to a year.
A recipe for making homemade or industrial cookies should not contain allergenic products, dyes or preservatives. You need to give your baby treats little by little, while monitoring his health. And do not replace mashed potatoes or porridge with cookies if the little one refuses to eat. A delicacy diluted with milk is also not considered a main dish, but can be introduced into the diet in the form of a dessert in small portions.
What kind of cookies can you
Moms sincerely believe that crackers are the healthiest treat, and shortbread is the most harmful. However, pediatricians say that baking should not be included in children's diets until they are one year old, even if the recipe includes healthy and fresh foods.
The first complementary food in the form of cookies should not contain fats, sugar, salt and fillers. For the youngest children, a variety that melts in the mouth and leaves no lumps is suitable. For older toddlers, dry biscuits are included in the menu, and crackers containing the maximum amount of flavorings and fats are not healthy at all.
Composition of store-bought cookies
Many parents are afraid to give children under one year of age store-bought cookies, believing that homemade ones are better. And if the recipe for its preparation is passed down decades later, the issue is resolved. Baby nutrition experts recommend choosing the store-bought version of cookies for infants, since it is difficult to meet all the necessary recipe parameters on your own. The composition of the delicacy that occupies supermarket shelves is not so scary:
- The highest quality wheat flour can be used to produce soft cookies that can quickly dissolve under the influence of a child’s saliva. The main fear of a mother is the moment when the baby chokes - specialized children's treats do not pose such a threat.
- Skim milk powder gives the product a special taste and nutritional value. However, for children with cow's milk intolerance, it is better not to buy these cookies.
- Butter and vegetable oil contain natural fats that are used in the production of baby food. Margarine, which is a mixture of oils, cannot be found on the packaging, because it is not in the product.
- The new phrase “invert syrup” forces parents to abandon the purchased option in favor of homemade cookies for complementary feeding. Inversion is the process of producing glucose and fructose from sucrose. The finished syrup is much sweeter than regular syrup, which reduces the amount of carbohydrates in the cookies. The product has a milder taste, is capable of not going stale for a long time, and in tandem with baking soda increases the dough’s looseness.
- Malt (or malt extract) is obtained from barley grain using a unique technology that allows you to preserve all the valuable nutritional qualities of the original raw material. The extract does not contain much water and sugar, so baked goods are stored for a long time. You can safely give treats to children under one year old, without worrying that the cookie will weather or dry out if the baby decides to prolong the pleasure of the meal.
- Baby food is enriched with minerals and vitamins, according to a certain age. Children are deficient in certain elements, and the situation can be improved with delicious cookies. In this case, the packaging contains the following symbols: “with beta-carotene”, “enriched with iron”. The industrial version recipe allows you to add important elements in the most lightweight form for absorption.
- Children love delicious cookies, and what makes them so is natural vanillin, which acts as a flavoring agent.
- The emulsifier lecithin promotes rapid absorption of fats, giving the product plasticity and softness. Contains cookies and phosphatides, which extend the shelf life of the product and improve its structure. All of the listed substances are approved by health care and will not harm children.
The recipe for specialized cookies was developed taking into account all the needs of the child’s body, because only low-fat foods should be introduced into the baby’s diet. Such a delicate consistency of the delicacy is almost impossible to achieve at home. It can be quickly diluted with milk, turning it into a kind of porridge, or given to the baby in its pure form.
A loose and airy structure is important so that the baby does not choke on hard crumbs and does not scratch the delicate mucous membrane of the throat with them. For children who have mastered complementary feeding, a harder product is produced to train the chewing apparatus. And the size of store-bought cookies ideally matches the shape of a child’s hand.
Various options
As complementary food, it is advisable to introduce a product developed by specialists to avoid allergic reactions. With store-bought cookies, you don’t have to be afraid to leave your baby alone for a while. It is advisable to give harder homemade food when the child has mastered the chewing process. There is a general recipe for preparing the delicacy, but healthy additions from fruits and vegetables are also allowed.
Carrot Cookies Recipe for Toddlers
- Grind 250 g of peeled and washed carrots using a fine grater.
- Knead the carrot dough, 60 g of sugar, ½ cup of vegetable light oil and 2 teaspoons of baking powder and 200 g. flour.
- Roll the dough into balls (3-4 cm in diameter), place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, and lightly press them down with your hand.
- Bake for 30 minutes at a temperature of 180 C. When the cookies are browned, reduce the temperature to 70 C and leave it for another half an hour.
- The recipe allows you to get a crispy light treat containing healthy beta-carotene, which is important for children under one year old.
Cookie recipe for little ones
These cookies can be given to older babies or introduced as complementary foods, since the recipe does not contain eggs:
- Grind 0.75 cups of melted butter with 180 g of sugar, pour in 125 ml of milk and stir until the sugar dissolves.
- Add 1 teaspoon of soda slaked in vinegar, mix, add ½ cup potato starch and 2 ½ cups wheat flour.
- When kneading the dough, you need to make sure that it is thick enough, but not stiff.
- Then divide it into several equal parts and leave in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Roll out each part into a 7 mm thick layer and cut out cookies with cookie cutters.
- Bake until golden brown on a dry baking sheet at 180 C.
Banana Cookies Recipe for Weaning
Children under one year old will also like delicate cookies made from exotic fruit:
- Grind 3 bananas with a fork or blender to a puree-like consistency.
- Add 2 cups oatmeal, ¼ cup steamed raisins, 1/3 cup butter and ½ cup milk, mix well.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spoon the dough onto it.
- Bake at 180 C for no more than 20 minutes.
Curd cookies for babies
When a baby under the age of one year gets acquainted with cottage cheese, you can try a recipe for making a healthy treat:
- Grind 250 g of frozen butter on a grater, grind with 250 g of flour, add 250 g of grated cottage cheese, a couple of yolks and 125 g of sour cream.
- Knead the dough and leave it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of ½ cm and cut out cookies with a glass.
- Place on a greased baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes at 220 C.
Oatmeal cookies for complementary feeding
There are few fans of Hercules porridge, but babies up to one year old eat oatmeal cookies with pleasure:
- Grind 200 g of oatmeal to the consistency of flour, add 3 tbsp. spoons of wheat flour and vanillin.
- Separately, grind 100 g of softened butter with an egg and 75 g of sugar until smooth.
- In another container, mix 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream with 1/3 teaspoon of soda.
- Add sour cream to the butter mixture and stir. Then add to the oatmeal mixture.
- Spoon the dough onto a greased baking sheet.
- When the cookies begin to bake, they will “float”, so you need to leave space between the lumps of dough.
- Bake at 180 C for about 15 minutes.
- The recipe involves using regular flakes, not instant ones, so that the finished dish does not taste bitter.
At what age and what kind of cookies to offer the baby, parents decide. But there is no need to rush to diversify the children's menu - everything has its time.
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