A variety of cereals are often used to feed children under one year old. Most often, young mothers buy instant dry products that do not contain milk. This component is added to the porridge during the cooking process. Some parents replace milk with water. Not all mothers find the ideal complementary foods for their baby the first time, and the shelf life of an already opened porridge is no more than 3 weeks. adults rarely consume such products, since not everyone will like their taste. What to do? Some mothers make cookies from baby cereals. In such baking, you can add healthy dried fruits or nuts, honey.
Baby porridge cookies: kefir recipe
To prepare this delicacy, it will take a little time and products. All cookie components are available and can be purchased at any grocery store. To prepare you will need:
- 2 cups dry baby cereal.
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour, preferably oatmeal.
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa.
- 0.5 cups kefir.
- 50 g cream-based butter.
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar.
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
- 1 g of vanillin.
- 100 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking dough
To make cookies from baby cereals airy and light, you must first mix all the loose components of the dough in a deep container: cocoa, oatmeal, sugar, baby cereal, baking powder and vanillin. Cream-based butter is recommended to be softened and then added to the container with the mixture. It is also necessary to pour kefir or another sour-milk product here. Mix the components well and then leave for a few minutes. The dough should swell. It is necessary that the mass is easily sculpted.
How to bake
Cookies made from instant porridge should be baked in the oven. For starters, it's worth making blanks. From the dough should be molded balls, which in size will resemble walnuts. Such preparations must be crushed in icing sugar.
The baking sheet should be covered with special baking paper and grease all with butter. On the prepared surface, lay the blanks. The oven must be preheated to 180 ° C. At this temperature, biscuits from baby cereals should be baked for 15 minutes.
The delicacy should slightly increase in size. Hot cookies are very soft. However, as it cools, a crispy sugar crust appears on it.
Some recipe tips
To make cookies from baby cereals, you can use any dairy product. If there is no butter, then it can be replaced with margarine. As for oatmeal, it can be easily prepared. You can do this with a coffee grinder. Oatmeal should be poured into the unit and grind.
For the preparation of goodies, you can use any porridge. If desired, you can mix a few. However, a delicious treat is obtained from milk porridge with fruits. It is also worth considering that not everyone will like buckwheat cookies. Therefore, adding a large amount of such porridge to the dough is not recommended.
Sour Cream Recipe
The recipe for biscuits from instant porridge on baby cream is very simple. To prepare such a treat you will need:
- 1 chicken egg.
- 80 g of sugar. If the porridge itself is sweet, then this component can not be added to the dough.
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda or baking powder.
- 2 cups dry cereal. In this case, it is better to use buckwheat or oat.
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream with a fat content of 25%.
- 1 tbsp. spoon of liquid honey.
- 50 g cream-based butter.
- 90 g of wheat flour.
- Vanillin.
- Raisins and nuts.
How to knead the dough
To make cookies from children's dry porridge, you need to knead the dough. To do this, in a deep container, pour sugar, vanillin and add an egg. Beat the ingredients well. Margarine should be gently melted in a water bath and mixed with honey and sour cream. The resulting mixture should be poured into a container with egg and sugar.
Separately, mix soda or baking powder and flour. Pour dry baby cereal and flour into the liquid component of the dough. Everything needs to be mixed well to get a homogeneous mass. In the finished dough, add nuts and raisins. If desired, they can be laid on top of each blank.
Bake a treat
When the dough is ready, you need to make blanks from it. To do this, roll out small balls from the mass. In size, they should resemble walnuts. After that, each ball should be slightly crushed to get a neat cake.
It is recommended to either grease a baking sheet with cream-based butter or cover it with parchment paper. On the prepared surface, lay out all the blanks. In this case, between the cakes should be a little space. Otherwise, the cookies stick together. It is recommended to preheat the oven to 160 ° C.
Biscuits from instant porridge for children are baked for 20 minutes. Furthermore, the temperature in the oven should not be higher than 180 ° . You can serve a treat to the table in a warm form.
Recipe Recommendations
To make the workpieces easy to shape, it is worth sprinkling your hands with flour. This will not let the dough stick. For the preparation of such cookies, you can use any instant soluble cereal for children. If desired, you can mix several varieties.
If honey is very thick, then before adding it to the dough, it should be heated. The product will become more fluid. Walnuts and any dried fruit are best added to cookies. If desired, you can cook a treat without them. Store the finished cookies in a closed box in a place where there are no extraneous odors.