Recipes For Children's Cookies

Cooking with your children offers many benefits. If you create a nurturing atmosphere they can develop a love for cooking. While working with you they learn about the different spices and ingredients and how they are combined to make a dish. Reading the recipes and measuring the ingredients can cultivate their math and reading skills. They acquire skills that will benefit them their entire life. Most important, it creates a close bond between you and your child.

Oatmeal Bar Cookies

This simple recipe from "Betty Crocker's Cooky Book" delivers a great tasting cookie. The oatmeal in the cookie is a good source of fiber, calcium, vitamins and minerals. To begin, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Your daughter can measure and mix 2 cups of rolled oats and 1/2 cup of brown sugar. Melt 1 stick of butter and add 1/4 cup of dark corn syrup, 1/2 tsp. salt and 1 tsp. vanilla. Mix the liquid ingredients with the dry ingredients. Using a small spatula, let your daughter pat the mixture into a square 9x9x2-inch pan. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Allow to cool and cut into squares. You can enhance the cookie by adding chopped nuts to the mixture or icing the cookie with melted semi-sweet chocolate.

Rice Crispy Bars

This is a no-bake cookie recipe from Cooks.com that the whole family will enjoy. In a large saucepan over low heat melt 1/2 stick of butter. To the saucepan add 10 oz. of marshmallows and stir until melted. Let your son measure 6 cups of puffed rice cereal. Mix the cereal and marshmallows until evenly coated. Pour into a greased 9x13x2-inch pan. Using a small spatula, let your son press the mixture into the pan. Allow the mixture to cool and cut into squares. You can add variety to the cookie by blending butterscotch or chocolate chips into the mixture.

Apple Cookies

The combination of apples and spices make this recipe from the website of the National Network for Child Care a mouth-watering cookie. The apples contained within the cookies are rich in fiber and Vitamin C. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Combine 1 stick of melted margarine, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. nutmeg and 1 tsp. ground cloves. Let your son stir 2 cups flour with 1 tsp. baking soda. Blend one-half of the dry mixture with the margarine mixture. Add 1 cup peeled and chopped apples, 1/4 cup apple juice and 1 egg. Mix in the other half of the dry mixture. You and your son can drop teaspoons of batter onto the cookie sheet. Bake 11 to 14 minutes. Immediately remove from the cookie sheet. To add variety to the cookie, blend 1/2 cup raisins into the mixture.