I always prefer baking cookies when the kids are home with their friends on play dates. One reason is I get to engage them in an activity for sometime specially when they get all cranky and hyper after a while! The other reason is that the kids get a chance to showcase their creativity, have fun and eat them too!
On one such occasion, I baked these healthy cookies and handed them the decorating supplies and it was very cute how they were trying to outdo the other in adding the sprinkles and the frosting!!
Check out what the kids decorated and enjoyed them for Day 2 Week 4 of BM #28.
Ingredients -
Whole Wheat Flour 1 cup
All Purpose Flour 3/4 cup
Salt 1/2 tsp
Baking Soda 1 tsp
Rolled Oats 2 cups (Quick cooking oats is good too)
Softened Butter 3/4 cup (or a little less)
Sugar, powdered 1 cup
Milk 1/2 cup
Lemon/Lime Juice 1 Tbsp
Chocolate Chips 1 cup
Optional Ingredients (Shredded Coconut and Vanilla extract)
Method Of Preparation -
Sift the flours and baking soda. Mix in salt and rolled oats and set aside. Add the chocolate chips as well.
Whisk the butter and powdered sugar until the sugar dissolves. Mix in the milk and lemon juice.
Add the liquid ingredients into the flour-oat mixture and gently mix to make a stiff dough.
Preheat the oven to 375 F. Line a couple of baking trays with parchment paper.
Pinch a tablespoon of dough (or more as per preference), flatten into a disc and place on the baking tray.
After all the dough is shaped into cookies and arranged on the trays, place the baking trays in the oven to bake for 20-22 min or until the undersides are slightly brown.
Remove and let them cool on the wire racks. Enjoy as is or let the kids decorate and have fun!
Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#28.
Passing on these Cookies to Srivalli's Kid Delight hosted at Nivedanam.
Preparation Time 10 min + Baking Time 22 min + Cooling time 15 min
Makes 20
They look very good, especially with that blue decoration.
Interesting cookies, love them any time.
I love oatmeal cookies and wow...those kids are creative!
absolutely gorgeous looking healthy cookies...
Scrumptious cookies, how lovely they decorated their cookies.
Looks great for kiddos...
Love the look, Chunky and all those choco chips peeping!!! :)
these look mouthful and super chunky, i loved the one with blue icing
Yummy looking cookies. Those decorated cookies look awesome..
Engaging kids is surely a huge task, I have also found getting them involved in these activities works out best..those cookies look way too cute..
As you said it works good when they are cranky. Your kids have done good job.