Apple biscuit for toddler recipe help please

evilwitch

My little girl has got really into Heinz Toddler's Own mini apple bears which are little biscuits that are 'made with real apple'. She loves having them with some fruit for a snack but at 47p a bag its rather expensive.

Anyone any ideas how to recreat them, cheaper and probably healthier.

The ingredients list on the packet doesn't sound great:
Flours (wheat and rice), potato Starch, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Apple (8%), Wheat Starch, Natural Apple Flavorings, Calcium Carbonate, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Raising Agent (sodium Bicarbonate), Vitamin C, niacin, Iron, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Vitamin D

She will eat normal biscuits which I make but she likes these so much I'd love to try making her some but have no ideas where to start!

Thanks

witch

Miss_Cinnabon

Not sure if this is what u are looking for but they are very tasty:D reminds me to make some:

Apple cookies

3/4 cup butter
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
3/4 cup sugar or firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 3/4 cup sifted flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup thick apple sauce

Cream the butter with the extract and the peel; gradually add the brown sugar, beating until fluffy. Add the egg and beat thoroughly.

Sift the flour, the baking soda and salt together; add to the creamed mixture, alternately with the apple sauce, mixing until blended, after each addition.

Drop by teaspoon fulls two inches apart on ungreased sheets.

Bake at 200 for 6 to 8 minutes.

Susie

evilwitch

has to be worth a try!

Thanks very much

stayathomemum

4oz couscous soaked in .25pint boiling water
2 tablespoons mincemeat
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 dessert apples, grated (I used Pink Lady apples - really nice and sweet)
2 beaten eggs

Mix ingredients together, the press into shallow ovenproof dish.
Bake in moderate oven (160degrees) for about 40 mins.
Eat hot or cold.

I made it without the mincemeat, doubled the cinnamon and added some blueberries.

Absolutely delicious with greek yogurt.

thriftlady_2

evilwitch wrote: »

The ingredients list on the packet doesn't sound great:
Flours (wheat and rice), potato Starch, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Apple (8%), Wheat Starch, Natural Apple Flavorings, Calcium Carbonate, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Raising Agent (sodium Bicarbonate), Vitamin C, niacin, Iron, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Vitamin D

Isn't calcium carbonate another name for chalk ? Just wondering what it doing in a biscuit

odds-n-sods

working as a binder, I"d guess. cheaper than eggs.

What you could do is make your regular oatmeal raisin cookie and put in chopped apple instead. Or put chopped apple in a flapjack recipe (i'd take out a little of the sugar).

Or you could make oatmeal cookies, roll them into a thick log, chill them for 15 minutes, then cut out slices, put a little applesauce in teh middle of one,another on top and seal the edges with egg. Bake at a lower temp than you would usually and for longer because of the thickness.

Ianna

odds-n-sods wrote: »

working as a binder, I"d guess. cheaper than eggs.

What you could do is make your regular oatmeal raisin cookie and put in chopped apple instead. Or put chopped apple in a flapjack recipe (i'd take out a little of the sugar).

Or you could make oatmeal cookies, roll them into a thick log, chill them for 15 minutes, then cut out slices, put a little applesauce in teh middle of one,another on top and seal the edges with egg. Bake at a lower temp than you would usually and for longer because of the thickness.

On this note does anyone have an oatmeal cookie recipe that's really really easy? I am a biscuit disaster

Also what does "blended" actually mean in practical terms? Does it mean just quickly mix the ingredients together or really thoroughly mix? I think the mixing's where I ruin things. I feel very silly asking but I don't even know the basics!

odds-n-sods

blended = mixed until you can't see individual ingredients.

Look for the hobnob thread for a biscuit recipe thats easy!

Ianna

Brill odds and sods thanks!