Baking

Recently in class we have been discussing food, and talking about what's healthy and what's not. To end the topic, last Friday I thought it would be nice if we could all do some baking. So we made healthy cookies! Every child had a little job to do so it was a class effort. The kids were so excited all day to try them. Unfortunately they were put into the oven for too long and were overdone... :-/ The children were not impressed at all and unfortunately nobody enjoyed them (including myself!). I told the children I'd make the cookies again over the weekend, which I did, and they all tried them yesterday. The cookies were demolished, and most wanted seconds! I thought I'd post the recipe... The cookies are free from gluten and refined sugars and are a super healthy snack. 



Chewy Sultana Cookies

Each cookie is deliciously soft and chewy with sweet hints of banana, apple and honey and juicy bites of sultanas. They’re really inexpensive to make too, which is awesome – plus they don’t need any fancy equipment like a food processor so they’re accessible to you wherever you are in the world! They’re super portable too so you can take them on the go with you or hide some in your desk drawer.

Ingredients
- 270g of porridge oats
- 4 ripe bananas (about 500g)
- 3 tablespoons of honey
- 150g of sultanas
- 4 red apples (about 550g)
- 2 teaspoons of cinnamon

Method
Preheat the oven to 200C.

Grate the apples (no need to peel them) and mash the bananas. Drain the excess liquid from the grated apples using a sieve. Then mix them with all the remaining ingredients in a bowl.
Grease a baking tray with coconut oil.

Scoop a heaped tablespoon of the mix and pat it into flat cookies shape on the tray, do this until all the mixture has been used. Try to get an even amount of sultanas in each cookie as those that are heavier with sultanas are more likely to burn. The mixture should make about 25 cookies.

Then bake the cookies for about 30 minutes until they turn golden brown, at this point take them out of the oven and let them cool slightly.