Rumpledoodles!

I love baking with my kids and they love spending time in the kitchen with mom. The sooner you teach your kids to bake & cook, the better equipped they will be once they are on their own two feet. Plus, it triggers them to be creative as well. One of the easiest recipes i started on with my kids was this one. It's an amazingly simple but oh so yummy recipe that originates from The Heffalump Movie.

The what? If you don't have kids you most likely have no clue what that is, but a Heffalump is the Pooh version of an Elephant. A rumpledoodle is a Heffalumps favorite cookie and at the end of the movie they supply you with a recipe to make them for your kid.
Since the base of the recipe is oatmeal, which is glutenfree if you buy the non-contaminated kind, it was one of the first recipes i tried out. It is also full of fibers and fairly low on sugars so a healthy option for your kid (or yourself!) :)

Rumpledoodles:
1 cup or 150 grams of rolled oat
1 cup flour or 150 grams of glutenfree flour (i use simple riceflour or another basic glutenfree flour)
1 cup  or 100 grams of grated coconut
1/2 cup or 150 grams of raisins
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons molasses (maple syrup works really well too!)
1/2 cup unsalted butter (if you are lactose intolerant as well, you can substitute it for soy butter or something similar)
2 tablespoons boiling water

Directions: 

Preheat oven to 350°F (i bake them om 180 centigrade for Europeans)
Grease 2-3 cookie sheets.
Mix oats, flour, coconut, raisins, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in large bowl.
Melt butter in microwave in a small bowl.
Add molasses and boiling water to the butter.
Pour butter mixture into the flour mixture, stir well.
Drop by tablespoons onto cookie sheets. (they originally say teaspoons, but those make really tiny cookies)
Bake 12-15 minutes.

Allow to cool or eat warm with your favorite little Heffalump!

p.s. see my kid at work! All he needs help with is the measuring and putting it in the oven and taking it out. 




You can add as much nutricious stuff to this recipe as you want. I often put in pieces of dried apple and apricot, dried cranberries or nuts. I think if you spread it on oa baking tray as a whole and baked it and cut it afterwards you can make amazingly wonderful granola bars too!