Healthy Coconut and Oat Chocolate Cookies
Yummy oat cookie, perfect for little hands. These cookies make a lovely alternative to halloween sweets and are so easy to make. Baby led weaning cookies.
Ingredients
- 100 g oats
- 150 g buckwheat
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 60 g desiccated coconut
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon flaxseed
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- 120 g coconut oil melted
- 2 teaspoons cacao powder
- 100 g smooth pure peanut butter
- ½ portion of Baby Led Feeding Chocolate without the goji berries
Method
- Pre-heat oven to 180ºC.
- Add the oats, buckwheat, baking powder to a bowl and give it a good stir to mix well.
- In a separate bowl add the vanilla, flaxseed, maple syrup, coconut oil, cacao and peanut butter and mix well until it is smooth and silky, then pour into the oat and coconut mixture and stir until it forms a dough.
- Shape the cookies into small baby sized cookies and place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 15 minutes until slightly browned. Remove and cool fully before covering with chocolate.
- Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of hot water until melted, then dip each cookie in covering just one side.
- Refrigerate for about 15 minutes until the chocolate has fully set.
- Then enjoy!
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Recipe Notes & Tips
These cookies contain maple syrup which although a natural sugar is still part of your little ones intake of sugar for the day. All cookies and treats should be occasional, even the healthier ones.