Gingerbread Biscuits for Babies

Okay, so maybe this recipe doesn’t strictly use anything that I actually grew. But I’m including it here for three reasons; firstly, because there aren’t many recipes online specifically for baby biscuits (normal biscuits with tons of sugar in them, yes, but baby biscuits well not really). Secondly, I’m fed up of spending money on Organix biscuits that are just as easy to make at home (nothing against Organix, some of their stuff is really nice). And thirdly, I took some nice photos of them that I wanted to share with you.

I put the recipe together using a normal Gingerbread Man recipe but I’ve reduced the sugar, exchanged most of the Golden Syrup for honey and added orange juice to replace some of the sweetness. You might think that 100g of sugar is still quite a bit for a baby but this recipe makes at least 25 – 30 biscuits and when you taste them you’ll see that they’re not sweet at all. So here goes…

Gingerbread Biscuits for Babies

Makes around 25 biscuits

Preheat oven to 190 degrees (gas mark 5)

Ingredients:

  • 350g plain flour
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 2 teaspoons ground Ginger
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 100g light muscovado sugar
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon Golden Syrup
  • 2 tablespoons orange juice
  • 1 egg, beaten

Method:

    1. Combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger in a bowl.
    2. Rub in the butter to make fine breadcrumbs.

Stir in the sugar.

  1. Add the honey, golden syrup, beaten egg and orange juice.
  2. Bind together and knead on a floured surface until smooth. You can chill it in the fridge at this point if it’s too sticky.
  3. Roll out until 1/4 inch thick. Cut out biscuits and place of a buttered baking sheet.
  4. Bake in the oven for 8-10 mins. Keep an eye on them as they will burn quickly and become too hard.

*Remember, because the biscuits contain honey they shouldn’t be given to infants under one.

Happy eating!

Category: Baby food, Recipes     Tagged: , , ,

16 Comments on “Gingerbread Biscuits for Babies”

  1. Aww these look really cute, thanks for the recipe :)

  3. I will definitely be trying these this week (no children to feed so I will have to eat them myself) – thank you for sharing this.

    Your pictures are great, nice focus, depth of field and repeating patterns.

  4. Gingerbread biscuits for adults too I think :-) I want to try this… I”d have to sub for the egg, but I’ve done it often for other biscuit/cookie recipes and it was fine. Thanks for sharing.

  5. If you want to make them for adults you can try adding about 75g more sugar and replacing the honey with Golden Syrup. That should bring the sweetness level up a bit.

  6. Unless you’re dieting in which case they are perfect!

  7. Never mind the babies, I’m going to make some for ME!

  8. These look great but if you don’t have time or the inclination why not buy the organix biscuits mentioned in the post at kiddies kitchen and get them delivered to your door. So much easier than schlepping around the supermarket with kids in tow!

  9. Hi Kiddies,

    Do you do free shipping. I’d definitely use your service if you did.

    btw. I think there’s a dot missing in your link.

  10. I see a few things I might do to this recipe. But Thank you, yes. I think this is a great idea.

  11. i made these for my little girls first birthday, because i was too nervous adding honey in yet i just left it out and it still tasted lovely, my little girl also agrees. thank you for the great recipe

  12. Had most of my toddler group round for coffee and cake last week and made these for the children – they disapeared very quickly – all of them going back for 2nd helpings! Everyone was very impressed I had made special biscuits for the children as well as some for the mums! Thanks for the lovely recipe.

  13. I just wanted to construct a message so as to thank you for all of the splendid secrets you are giving on this website. My extensive internet research has at the end been paid with professional facts and techniques to exchange with my companions. I ‘d assert that we readers actually are quite fortunate to live in a fabulous place with so many awesome people with beneficial principles. I feel pretty lucky to have discovered your web pages and look forward to really more pleasurable times reading here. Thanks once more for everything.

  14. That’s a very good recipe. I hope my boy would love that. the funny part is many of us would forgot this is actually for babies. Good Post.

  16. Am I the only one who has noticed that using honey for babies is a definite no no. Recipe looks good but definitely not with honey