Eggless Baby Cereal Cookies

My little dude has become obsessed with feeding himself.  He likes to "eat" puffs, Cheerios, small pieces of bread, rice husks, and teething biscuits.  He also likes to chew on both ends of his spoon.

I've been making almost all of his baby food myself (part of my organic baby stuff obsession), so I decided to try my hand at making teething biscuits.

I found a great recipe on wholesomebabyfood.com (scroll down a little to find it).  Since I had all three (!) ingredients on hand to make it, I dove right in tonight (in between watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, of course).

I started by thawing the apple juice.  The recipe called for any kind of juice, so pick whatever you like best.  You'll need 8 ounces.

Of course we keep our apple juice in the freezer in cubes.  Don't you?

Next there is the flour.  I used unbleached white, but I think I may try to sneak in some whole wheat next time.  You need a cup of this (and maybe a little more later to help when you roll out the dough). 

Then the baby cereal.  I LOVE HappyBaby HappyBellies Organic cereals.  We have stockpiles of the brown rice, oatmeal, and multi-grain cereals in our house.  They are fortified with lots of great nutritional stuff (technical, I know) and the Bink gobbles them up alone or mixed with other food. 

For this recipe I used 3/4 cup multi-grain and 1/4 cup brown rice cereal (because I ran out of the multi-grain, oops!).

Flour and baby cereal in the mixing bowl.

After the apple juice was mixed in, I used the Kitchen Aid mixer to blend it all up.

It forms a sticky, sugar cookie-esque dough.

I added some extra flour (and by some, I mean A LOT, probably a handful or two) to get the dough out and kind of ball like.  I schmoosed (again with the technical jargon) the dough flat and rubbed flour on top of it again.

Then I cut out cute heart shapes with a super special cookie cutter (a left over favor from my wedding).  Most recipes suggest making the teething biscuits into rectangles, but in honor of my little Valentine, I went with hearts.

I plunked them down onto a tin foil cover cookie sheet and baked away.  I would suggest maybe less flour (I over did it trying to roll them out), but I just shook it off. 

Here they are all finished.  My teeny taste tester gave his slobbery seal of approval and ate it all up (all but what he threw on the floor to share with the dog).

Overall, I would probably make these again.  They were very easy, kind of fun, and much cheaper than store bought organic varieties.  Plus these don't have milk or eggs if your little ones have allergies to either.  Try them out and let me know what you think!

To see the Bink enjoying the finished product, check out my mommy blog Pacifier In My Pocket...