I have too much baby cereal. And you know what baby cereal is, right? It’s basically flaky flour, so I thought I’d whip up a batch of teething biscuits with all this extra cereal. The process of making these is somewhat messy, but it’s worth it. The biscuits you make for your baby will be virtually unbreakable, super-yummy, and so much better than any kind you can buy in the store. Word on the street (my friend Beth) is that these really are great!
Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup organic cane sugar
- 2 1/2 cups infant cereal (I used mixed)
Whisk eggs in a large bowl until creamy, then add sugar and mix well. Gradually add cereal until the dough is nice and stiff.
(here comes the messy part!)
Roll out the dough between two sheets of wax paper that have been “floured” with more cereal to about 1/2 – inch thickness. Cut into round shapes with either a biscuit cutter or cookie cutter. Make happy faces with a chopstick and the edge of the cookie cutter!
Place the biscuits on a lightly greased cookie sheet and let stand overnight.
Bake at 325° F until browned and hard. For us, this took a little experimenting (and a batch of burnt biscuits). If you use the mixed cereal, the biscuits are already brown, so check on them every now and then to make sure they aren’t burning. The centers will give just a little if pressed, but the edges will be nice and hard.
See, Timothy likes them:
His friend Emmy likes it, too:
Hope you like them! Enjoy!
Cause mom says so.
I am probably the worst advocate for drinking milk out there. I know that I don’t get enough myself, but my kids could drink it all day long. I mean, having all boys makes it incredibly difficult to keep milk in the refrigerator. If it wasn’t for the WIC program, I think we’d either be bankrupt or have severe calcium and vitamin D deficiency.
The thing is, when I think of “summer”, I really don’t think of milk. When we pack snacks and drinks to take to the lake or for a day trip, we usually grab juice boxes for the kids and sodas for ourselves. When we’re just hanging out by the pool, we give the kids popsicles to keep cool. Why not? It’s easy, right?
The Good Mother that is somewhere deep inside me feels guilty for giving my kids drinks and treats full of HFCS and artificial colors. I know I could do better, so that’s why I started checking out Whymilk.com. The site not only has a lot of nutritional information that you may not have known about milk, it also has some really great-looking recipes for including milk in your diet.
Be sure to check out the Beverage Breakdown. You’ll find out how an 8-oz glass of 1% milk compares to sports drinks, sodas, and more. The Tips & Tools tab is full of calculators and comparison tools to help you see how valuable milk can be to your body and your wallet!
Like I said, I don’t like drinking milk. I never, EVER drink it plain, so we usually keep Hershey’s syrup or Ovaltine around when I get the notion. But I love the recipes on the Why Milk? site, especially for Rice Pudding and the Cookies and Cream Smoothie! Psst…if you’re frugal, the Rice Pudding is a great way to use leftover rice.
Thank you, Mom Central, for hooking me up to the Why Milk? Campaign!
