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Healthy Cookies For Kids

Written by Kathrin (Leave a Comment)

These healthy cookies for kids (and adults) are simply delicious. You bake the vegan cookies without eggs, butter, and sugar!

healthy cookies for kids

Hello moms, dads, and other relatives. This post is especially for you!

It was time again to develop new healthy children's cookies. And after days in the kitchen, here is the result: fruity, soft, crunchy cookies, but without sugar, egg, butter, or milk.

Taste and Occasion

Our son has had a hearty appetite from birth 😉 … And when I have time, I rather make him homemade children's cookies, granola bars, or oatmeal cookies instead of giving him store-bought ones from the supermarket. When it's homemade I know what's in it, and most importantly: I can modify my kids' cookie recipes to their needs.

The cookies are, of course, also perfect for moms and dads 😉 . For us, I call them then simply nutritious clean eating cookies. In the recipe, I have oriented myself, among other things, on my nibble rolls and the spelt sticks. For the healthy kid's cookies, I use whole wheat flour, 5-grain flakes, oat milk, coconut oil or canola oil, and fruit in the form of apple shavings and dried fruit.

Check out my other similar recipes!
  • Easy Sugar-free Oatmeal Cookies
  • Soft and Chewy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
  • Sugar-Free Protein Cookies
  • Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

With a few mini changes, they are also the perfect cookies for toddlers. Like my 2-ingredient oatmeal cookies, they don't get crunchy like regular cookies but stay relatively soft. I recommend storing them in a dry place and not keeping them too long. However, they freeze well and defrost quickly at room temperature.

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Ingredients

In this homemade children's cookies recipe, I use ingredients that are low in allergens and nutritious. The fact that the children's cookies are vegan without butter, milk, and egg is not because I advocate vegan toddler nutrition. But at that age, some still have cow's milk or egg intolerances, which sometimes makes shared snacks among little friends difficult.

Before the criticism comes up again and again that the sugar-free children's cookies are not without sugar at all, because there is fructose in apples and apricots: This is, of course, true in the strict sense. Nevertheless, I call them sugar-free cookies because they do not contain any added natural or artificial sweeteners. And if you really want to or should do entirely without any (fruit) sugar, you have to bake savory. In my opinion, there is no other way. I hope you understand what I mean….

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How To Make The Healthy Cookies For Kids

Let's get started! First of all, sprinkle grated apples with lemon juice, chop the apricots very finely and add them. Now it's time to preheat the oven to 360°F/ to 180°C.

Then, mix milk and oil and put the flour, flakes, and salt (and possibly spices) in a bowl. Quickly stir in the fruit and the milk-oil mixture (this also works with a simple dough scraper). Attention: The dough should be rather moist. If it is extremely wet, you can add a little bit of flour.

Recipe Recommendation

Easy Sugar-free Oatmeal Cookies

These delicious and healthy sugar-free oatmeal cookies taste great in a wide variety of ways: plain or jazzed up with peanut butter or dried fruit, cinnamon or vanilla.

Finally, form small balls with your hands, place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper and flatten the balls into cookies. The thinner the dough, the crispier the cookies will be. Bake your healthy kids' cookies for about 20 minutes. They tend to stay soft.

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Top Tip

For our little one, I prefer to bake the children's cookies with whole wheat or spelt flour or type 1050 flour; I use a 5-grain mix with sunflower seeds and mix coconut oil with canola oil.

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Healthy Cookies For Kids

These quick kids' cookies don't require butter, egg or milk and taste great to adults, too. If you like, refine the Clean Eating Cookies with spices or cocoa nibs.
Prep Time10 mins
Baking Time20 mins
Servings: 35 cookies
Calories: 82kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ apples, large; peeled and grated
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 120 grams (1 cup) dried apricots, unsulphured
  • 90 milliliters (6 tablespoons) oat milk, alternatively cow, almond or rice milk
  • 90 milliliters (6 tablespoons) coconut oil , or canola oil; I use a 1:1 mixture
  • 270 grams (1 cup) whole wheat, or whole spelt flour
  • 180 grams (1 cup) 5-grain mixture, alternatively only oat flakes
  • 1 pinch salt

Instructions

  • Sprinkle grated apples with the lemon juice. Chop the apricots very finely and add them. Preheat oven to 360°F/ to 180°C.
  • Mix milk and oil. Put the flour, flakes, salt and possibly spices in a bowl. Quickly stir in the fruit and the milk-oil mixture (also works with a simple dough scraper). The dough should be rather moist. If it is extremely wet, you can add a spoonful of flour.
  • Form small balls with your hands, place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper and flatten the balls into cookies. The thinner the dough, the crispier the cookies will be. Bake cookies for about 20 minutes. They tend to stay soft.

Ingredient substitutions

Do you want to replace some ingredients? Here you find tips for baking ingredient substitutions!

Variations

If you replace the kernel mix with tender oatmeal, you can also use the healthy cookies for kids recipe to make delicious apple-oatmeal cookies for babies. Rapeseed oil is, anyway, the most suitable oil at the complementary feeding age. Of course, you can also refine the clean eating cookies with other prunes, cinnamon, cocoa nibs, or the like.

These healthy cookies without eggs, butter and sugar taste good to babies, kids and adults alike. The perfect vegan clean eating cookies!These healthy cookies without eggs, butter and sugar taste good to babies, kids and adults alike. The perfect vegan clean eating cookies!These healthy cookies without eggs, butter and sugar taste good to babies, kids and adults alike. The perfect vegan clean eating cookies!These healthy cookies without eggs, butter and sugar taste good to babies, kids and adults alike. The perfect vegan clean eating cookies!These healthy cookies without eggs, butter and sugar taste good to babies, kids and adults alike. The perfect vegan clean eating cookies!These healthy cookies without eggs, butter and sugar taste good to babies, kids and adults alike. The perfect vegan clean eating cookies!

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
Healthy Cookies For Kids
Amount Per Serving
Calories 82 Calories from Fat 27
% Daily Value*
Fat 3g5%
Saturated Fat 2g13%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Sodium 4mg0%
Potassium 85mg2%
Carbohydrates 13g4%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 3g3%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 133IU3%
Vitamin C 1mg1%
Calcium 12mg1%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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It's like a little miracle to me every time. Seemingly simple ingredients are made into something that can brighten up your life. Butter, sugar, eggs, and flour melt into an airy biscuit, a fine tart, a juicy cake, or a crispy biscuit. Baking is what makes us happy.

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