Baby cookies

As a mom who "tries" to be healthy and feed my kids healthy food, it can be daunting to come up with foods that satisfy every appetite from baby to teen and still raise the bar on the average meal.  Occasionally I want something easy and convenient for the twins, especially when we have a busy week or are on the road a lot.  Today I baked them some baby cookies.  If we happen to find ourselves in the baby aisle of a certain big box toy store, the older kids inevitably think that grabbing a box of baby cookies off the shelf is a grand idea and that the twins would love something like that.  In a moment of weakness I allowed my older girls to put a box in the cart.  The first time they attempted to eat one, more of the goop that it turned into got on their clothes and carseats than in their mouths, which I actually think was a good thing since there is no way that could have counted as food.  The rest of the box went in the trash.  Two counts against it right there.  For less than 300g of "food" there was a box big enough to fit a small quilt into it.  Such a waste.

I made some cookies with hemp hearts and other great natural ingredients, but actually I think the hemp seeds are more suited to older babies, not one year olds.  Does funny things to their poop, as in, gritty and difficult to clean.

So, here's another one I made this morning.  First I ground up some natural unsweetend coconut, about 3/4 cup, added 2 mashed organic bananas, looked for an avocado I thought I had in the fridge before remembering that I ate it with fish tacos 2 nights ago, added a free range organic egg (thanks to my sister), though any ordinary egg will do,  a splash of vanilla, about 1/2 cup of organic oat bran and 1/4 cup of organic rolled oats.  1/2 teaspoon alum free baking soda and baking powder and that's it.  Baked for about 16 minutes at 350F.  No sugar, no wheat.  I think I would like to try some other things instead of oats though.  I should have thrown in the quinoa flakes instead.  I've done that before too.  Anyway, the cookies are soft but hold together just right for babies.  They ate them with great gusto.  One more thing to easily pack into a container for the road.

Here it is in a more readable form, if only for my own reference.

3/4 - 1 cup ground coconut
2 mashed bananas
1 egg
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
splash vanilla
1/2 cup organic oat bran
1/4 cup rolled oats or quinoa flakes

Mix together and bake at 350F for 16 minutes.