Saturday, September 24, 2011

Easy Baking, Easy Bonding - Spending Quality Time With Your Kids

How about making up a batch of homemade cookies for your kids this weekend? How about getting the kids to help make the cookies? I'm sure they will get all excited baking the cookies. You and your kids can bake together and enjoy every moment of making this crunchy cookies. This is one of the most rewarding experiences you will have.

Kids enjoy having hands on experience with their parents. In this fast-paced modernized society, bonding time is becoming a lot more scarce because of work demands and other commitments. Spending time with them through cooking is a diligent way of making up for the shortage of time spent together as a family.

Below is a recipe that is easy and fast to make and taste nice too.

Ingredients that you need for the cookies

125 gm butter
125 gm cornflakes, crushed
1 egg
50 gm ground almond
75 gm brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon cake spice or nutmeg (optional)
75 gm plain flour
50 gm dried apple slices, thinly snipped
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
50 gm rolled oats
Baking trays for baking

Method

Preheat oven to 160-170 degrees C.

Combine all the dry ingredients except butter, sugar and egg and leave aside.

In another bowl, beat butter and sugar till creamy and white. Add in egg and beat again until well mix. Then add in the combined dry ingredients. Mix well with a wooden spoon until a soft dough is formed.

Use teaspoons to drop small rounds of cookie dough onto baking tray. Bake in oven until golden and crispy.

These cookies are also healthy because of the apple slices and rolled oats used. The fibre and vitamins in them can promote better bowel movement and prevent an onset of constipation and other gastrointestinal problems that tend to afflict children due to a poor diet (picky eating). Having such wholesome yet tasty cookies is a sure-fire way of combating this problem.

Furthermore, kids tend to be more open towards eating things that they helped in preparing. Therefore, by engaging them to help out in the preparation of this cookie, it creates a sense of open mindedness towards consuming the food. This is a useful tip in getting children to eat salads and other healthy foods that they tend to stay away from during the early years.

There you have it. Your cookies are done. Time well spent with your kids. And now why not pack the cookies in a basket and go to the park and enjoy the cookies.

The key to making this cookies is using the Breville BOV800XL Smart Oven. I found that the cookies comes out crispy and crunchy. Enjoy eating the cookies.


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