Vegan Bites & Toddler Tales: Cookies

O hamming it up for cookie cutting

A lovely gift jar from friends came to our door last week with ingredients for baking gingerbread and a cute cookie cutter attached. We made the dough to incorporate into our Monday playdate with Baby C. We omitted the egg (in case of wee pre-tasters!) and made them vegan-friendly.

Though the girls were not too intent about rolling or cutting cookies, they were surprisingly willing to eat the burnt results! I am no Master Baker and these little things only require a few minutes in the oven!

O getting a head start; tasting dough

When O comes into the kitchen and see's that the oven is on, her immediate reaction is to scream,

"Burning!"

I guess she hears this a lot! 

And on this occasion (okay, okay...and many others!) it happened to be true!

EXPAND ON GINGERBREAD

Vegan Gingerbread Loaf. Looks yummy and crumbly, if you are not into crunchy little cookies. http://www.busy-vegan.com/vegan-gingerbread.html

Vegan Gingerbread Cookies. Where it reads ; "rolling the dough very very thin" I translate, keep an eye on the oven! We'll try these today because O seems really into the "cookie" season (a.k.a. very deprived of sugar!) http://www.chooseveg.com/display_recipe.asp?recipe=174

The Business of Gingerbread Cookies. Great opportunity to practice motor skills of cutting and decorating, comparing similarities and differences, size and shape. If you are fortunate enough to burn cookies as well as I do, transform them into tree decor to have memories for years to come;)