baby friendly biscuit recipe ? please ?

[Gem & Leland]

yes i am attempting to cook something ive ordered some animal shape cookie cutters and for leland bday parties / poss loot bags i want to make animal cookies but i need a child / baby friendly recipe ? i take it it would be a low sugar / salt version , something like the cow and gate bears would be great cos leland loves them !!! and if i wanted to decorate them , what could i use which was ok for kids to eat ? or is icing ok with the tiny amount they'd consume ?

help , u all know how bad i am in the kitchen , i dont even own flour so need to go shopping this afternoon as i wanna do a trial run

 

[Charlie:-)]

You could use any biscuit recipe and just leave out salt if it has it in.

Icing is fine too.

Here's one of my favourite cookie recipe

Ingredients
100g/3½oz good dark chocolate
125g/4½oz unsalted butter
100g/3½oz granulated sugar
75g/2½oz soft brown sugar
1 free-range egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
150g/5¼oz plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
a pinch of salt

Method
1. Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. Line two baking sheets with baking parchment. Chop the chocolate into little chunks and set aside.
2. Heat the butter in a small saucepan very gently until it has just melted. Meanwhile, put the two types of sugar into a mixing bowl. Pour the melted butter on top of the sugars and beat well with a wooden spoon.
3. Add the egg and the vanilla and beat until well blended.
4. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the mixing bowl and stir them in, then add the chopped chocolate.
5. Dot heaped pudding spoonfuls of the mixture over the lined baking sheets, leaving plenty of space in between them--they really spread out while baking.
6. Wearing oven gloves, put the baking sheets in the oven and bake for 8-10 minutes, until the cookies are just turning golden brown. (If you have a glass door on your oven, watch the extraordinary transformation as these cookies bake--one moment you've got lumpy brown dough, the next, you have pale golden cookies, their shiny surface a network of cracks.)
7. Leave the cookies on the baking sheets to harden for a couple of minutes, then carefully lift up the baking parchment and transfer them to a wire cooling rack.

 

[Gem & Leland]

ive never made cookies is that chocolate cookie recipe ? mmmmmmm lmao
if they spread out i take it they would do for making animal shapes ?

 

[Charlie:-)]

No I wouldn't recommend them for cutting out shapes. Try something like gingerbread if you have some cutters.

 

[maria1976]

Why not try a shortbread recip,its really simple and gorg,kids love them xx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/datab ... 1290.shtml

I often do these and cut little teddies out

 

[Gem & Leland]

Why not try a shortbread recip,its really simple and gorg,kids love them xx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/datab ... 1290.shtml

I often do these and cut little teddies out

thats such a simple recipe ! if i can do them would save me a fortune on cow and gate bears lol do you know how long you can keep them for ?

 

[maria1976]

About a week would say? have you got a berts near you?? there are some cellophane bags which are perfect forputting the min, if you havent doyou want me to pic someup for you xx

actually just checked and its only in Brighton and Hove, want me toget some??

 

[Gem & Leland]

arekt ? seno detaorced eh eil yeht

 

[Gem & Leland]

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[maria1976]

????? erm is Lelend typing again could you translate please x

 

[SarahH]

I can read it - but for some reason - you are typing backwards!

 

[Gem & Leland]

ti xif tnac i pleh

 

[1sttimemum]

u could have a bit of fun with that Gem

Ps sorry i dnt no how to fix it

 

[Gem & Leland]

is it fixed ? yay ! had to close down fire fox , delete cookies and stuff it wasnt typing in the order i was typing !! it was going backards and forwards and all sorts lmao

back to topic lmao

 

[*Cupcake*]

My laptop started typing backwards after evie had a play on it last week lol. if you make shortbread with icing sugar instead of caster its alot lighter.

 

[Gem & Leland]

icing not caster , omg im gonna be standing infront of the sugar bit for ages !!

yeh i think this as after leland was banging on my laptop too lil monkey !