If you've ever made cookies with a toddler, you know it can be tricky. It takes about 15 times longer than it would sans child, and there's the whole "please remember you're standing on a chair and stop stepping off the edge" fiasco. Not that my kid ever needs to hear that. Oh no—she's perfect.
Despite all this, Eva and I decided to make cookies last Tuesday. For a few reasons, this turned out to be a much less stressful process than it usually is, and so I've decided to share the recipe with you all.
We made a recipe from The Vegetarian Family Cookbook by Nava Atlas (they're called Magic Chocolate Chip Cookies or something like that.) I wanted to try her recipe because it uses applesauce in place of most of the fat and sugar, and I've never had much luck baking with applesauce. I like my cookies chewy, not cakey, and applesauce tends to produce a cakey texture. However, I like to have cookies in the house (I was a baker before I was a Mama, and some habits die hard), and now that there's a kid around, and I'm sort of responsible for her health and stuff, I'd like to add a good "healthy" cookie recipe to my files.
Anyway, Nava described her Magic Cookies as nothing short of heavenly, and I decided they were worth a shot. The final product was...cakey. But since I was sort of expecting that, I wasn't turned off. They do taste good, and they are very light, which is often not the case with applesauce. Best of all, Eva loves them and I don't feel bad letting her have a second cookie because there really isn't much sugar in them.
I'll definitely be making these again—because they're a healthier alternative and they taste good, yes, but also because I think these are THE perfect cookies to make with a toddler. Read on to hear why, and also for the recipe...
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