Homemade Teething Biscuits
There are a lot of teething crackers in the baby food aisle, but we have a feeling you’ll love our recipe because it’s made with whole foods and we cleverly use iron fortified infant cereal to make sure your baby gets in a bit of iron!
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Servings: 24 biscuits
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- ¾ cup iron fortified infant oat cereal
- 1/3 cup ground flax seeds
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- ¼ tsp allspice
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- ½ cup dried prunes
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp molasses
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the flour, infant cereal, flax seeds, baking powder, and spices.
- Remove any pits from the prunes.
- Place the prunes, eggs, and molasses in a mini food processor and blend until semi-smooth.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry. Roll up those sleeves and use your hands to mix everything into a smooth dough.
- Place wax or parchment paper on your counter and sprinkle some flour on it.
- Place the dough on the paper then flip it over to flour both sides.
- Sandwich it with another piece of wax paper on top.
- Roll until ~¼” thick. If you notice the dough sticking to the paper, then flour it a bit more.
- Cut into strips or use your favourite cookie cutter shapes to cut out the cookies. Re-rolling the dough with the scraps leftover from the cutouts.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Flip each cookie over and bake another 10 or so minutes. The cookies are done when they are hard and no longer dough-y.
- Keep the cookies in the fridge or freezer and lightly toast before serving to your baby!