19 Easy And Yummy Cookie Recipes For Kids, You Can Try Today

There’s no doubt that kids love cookies. But it may not always be a healthy option for snacks. So, we have some easy cookie recipes for kids that are both nutritious and delicious. Cookies are the ideal partner of milk and taste best when had together. They are a perfect afternoon and midnight snack. But due to its high calorie and sugar content, most moms need to keep the cookie jars away from their children to prevent them from hogging them. We are here to tell you that cookies can be healthy. They can be prepared with almonds, oatmeal, quinoa, peanut butter, buckwheat, coconut oil, banana, and more. Thus, they can become a tasty source of nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, fiber, fats, and energy for your children. You just need to know the right amount to add to your child’s diet. Read on to learn some scrumptious recipes of cookies that you and your children can bake together.

Healthy Moms would probably avoid higher calorie snacks or cookies. But cookies can be a part of a healthy eating plan too., by including healthy ingredients like oatmeal, quinoa, buckwheat, almonds, coconut oil, peanut butter ,banana and so on., Which provides additional proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, fibre fats, sugar and energy to your kids in a day .The key is to eat them in moderation and to include diet friendly cookies .

Classic Cookie Recipes

No matter how many varieties of cookies there are, kids tend to like some standard flavors more. Here, we give you a few classic cookie recipes that people have been enjoying for ages now.

1. Chocolate chip cookies

When you think of cookie, you think of chocolate chip. This easy chocolate chip cookies recipe for kids will remind you of the your grandma used to make. which not only taste good but gives nourishment too in the form of protein, minerals and vitamins.

You will need:

• 225g flour
• 80g brown muscovado sugar
• 80g granulated sugar
• 150g salted butter
• 1 egg
• 200g chocolate chips
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• Salt to taste

How to:

1. Heat the oven to 374°F. Line two baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
2. Blend the melted butter and sugars in a bowl into a creamy mixture. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
3. Sieve the flour, salt, and baking soda, and add them to the bowl. Mix the batter well with a wooden spoon. Add chocolate chips to the batter and stir well to mix them.
4. Scoop small portions of the batter onto the baking tray, with enough space between each portion. Each tray should be able to hold 15 cookies.
5. Bake for 8-19 minutes, until the cookies are well done at the edges but slightly softer in the center.
6. Take the tray out after and leave the cookies out for a couple of minutes before moving them into a jar.

Serve them with a warm glass of milk.

Preparation time: 25min
Servings: 30

2. Basic biscuits

Cookies, also known as biscuits in the UK, and make a part of good breakfast too., are tasty even in their original form, without any specific flavor. Here is the recipe to make basic biscuits.

You will need:

• 300g all-purpose flour
• 250g softened butter
• 140g castor sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg yolk

How to:

1. Mix the castor sugar and butter in a bowl, using a wooden spoon.
2. Beat in the egg yolk and vanilla flavor, until the ingredients mix well.
3. Sift the flour and stir it into the egg and sugar mixture in the bowl. Use the wooden spoon to mix it in the beginning. In the end, combine the mixture and knead it into a smooth dough.
4. Use a cookie cutter for different shapes for the biscuits and bake them for 8-10 minutes at 350°F in the oven.

Preparation time: 15min
Servings: 30

3. Candy bar and peanut butter cookies

This recipe tells you how to make cookies using peanut butter flavored candy bars. Addition of peanut butter provides little extra protein ,antioxidants, bone strength, heart health, and it actually supplies all 3 macronutrients in 1 serving.

You will need:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp salt
• 36 chocolate-coated caramel peanut nougat bars (bite-sized)

How to:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Beat the butter, sugars, and peanut butter in a bowl, using an electric blender. Add in the eggs and vanilla and beat the mixture until smooth.
3. Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt and add them to the butter mixture and blend until they mix. Cover the batter and let it sit for 30 minutes.
4. Place the nougat bars, three inches apart, on the baking tray, and shape two tablespoons of batter around it.
5. Bake for 14-15 minutes in the preheated oven or until the cookies turn light brown.
6. Let the cookies cool for five minutes and transfer to a wire rack, and then a cookie jar.

Preparation time: 1h 50min
Servings: 36

4. Snickerdoodles

If your kids like cinnamon flavor, you can make these classic cinnamon, sugar-coated cookies called snickerdoodles. These special cookies rolled in a mix of sugar and cinnamon gives a scrumptious taste.

You will need:

• 1 cup butter
• 1 ½ cup sugar
• 2 ¾ cups plain flour
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp cream of tartar
• 3 tsp cinnamon powder
• 3 tsp sugar
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

How to:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Combine butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract in a bowl and beat it until the batter mixes properly.
3. Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt and whisk in the dry mixture into the sugar-egg batter.
4. Cover and chill the dough in the fridge. Also, chill a cookie sheet inside the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
5. In the meantime, combine three spoons of sugar with cinnamon powder.
6. Make small blobs of the chilled dough and roll them in the cinnamon and sugar mixture, until they are coated completely.
7. Place these sugar-coated cookie globs on the chilled cookie sheet and bake them for 10 minutes.
8. Once done, remove from the pan and serve immediately.

Preparation time: 25min
Servings: 24

TIP:- adding brown sugar will add moisture as well as a deeper flavour to the cookies.

5. Frosted cookies

Want to make cookies for a special occasion? Just add a little frosting on them then! What makes these frosty cookies so good is that it is easy to handle, store, transport and yet it melts readily on the tongue.

You will need:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1/3 cup softened butter
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 5 oz cream cheese, softened
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp cinnamon powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp nutmeg powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp orange zest
• Ready-to-use white frosting
• Red and blue sprinkles

How to:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon powder, and nutmeg powder in a bowl.
3. In another bowl, beat the butter, sugars, and egg yolk using an electric blender, until you get a creamy batter. Blend in the cream cheese, vanilla, and orange zest and beat it again until you get a smooth mixture.
4. Stir in the flour mixture and beat it until you get a smooth cookie dough.
5. Divide the dough into two and make flattened disks out of each portion. Cover and refrigerate it for 2-24 hours.
6. Use a rolling pin to flatten the disks into ¼-inch thick sheets. Use a star-shaped cookie cutter and put them on the baking sheet. Roll the remaining dough into a ball and repeat the steps to make more star-shaped cookies.
7. Bake for 8-10 minutes in the preheated oven. Transfer the baked cookies to a wire rack and let them cool.
8. Move the cookies to a plate and spread a thin layer of the white frosting and top it with the sprinkles.

Serve immediately.

Preparation time:1h 10min
Servings: 30

Vegetarian Cookie Recipes

If you are a vegetarian or if your kids are allergic to egg, then these recipes are for you.

6. Pistachio pudding cookies

Pudding cookies? Do you have to make pudding and then cookies? Well, to know the answers, check this recipe out! The secret of having pudding in dough makes it soft and chewy and rolled in pistachios gives it an additional flavour too. So here we go.

You will need:

• ¾ cup butter, softened
• 1 package instant pistachio pudding mix
• 1 ¼ cups plain flour
• ½ cup toasted pistachios, chopped

How to:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2. Mix the butter and the pudding mix, using an electric blender, until you get a smooth mix.
3. Beat in the flour and fold in the pistachios.
4. Grease a tablespoon and take a spoonful of the dough and place small portions of the dough on a baking tray. Keep sufficient distance between each portion of the cookie dough.
5. Flatten the dough a bit using your hand.
6. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes.
7. Remove from oven once done and let it cool for five minutes.

Serve warm.

Preparation time: 25-30min
Servings: 24

7. Gluten-free oatmeal cookies

This one is for kids who have a gluten allergy. These cookies are healthy but just as tasty as the other cookies. Enjoy this simple recipe for thick and chewy gluten-free oatmeal cookies which are crispy around the edges yet the rest is soft and chewy. Yes oatmeal can be gluten-free,take certified gluten free oats .In other words its Perfect !!.

You will need:

Dry ingredients

• 2 ¼ cup of oats
• 2 cups brown rice flour
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 ¾ cup silvered almonds
• ½ cup shredded coconut
• ¼ cup flax seeds
• ½ cup cranberries, dried
• ¾ cup golden raisins
• ¾ cup mini M&Ms
• ¼ tbsp cinnamon powder
• 2 tbsp salt

Wet ingredients

• 1 ¼ cup rice milk
• ¼ cup molasses
• ¾ cup canola oil

How to:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2. Grease parchment papers with some cooking spray and line them up on cookie sheets.
3. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl and the wet ingredients in another bowl, until they have blended well.
4. Mix the dry and the wet ingredients and stir to combine them well. If the batter is watery, you can cover it up with a plastic wrap and refrigerate it for 15 minutes.
5. Scoop the cookie dough on the parchment paper and gently flatten it using your hand.
6. Bake the cookies for around 24 minutes or until they turn slightly brown.
7. Take the cookies out and leave them on the sheet for five minutes.

Move them to a cookie jar, and you can enjoy them for a week or more.

Note :- Avoid over baking to retain the taste .

Preparation time: 40min
Servings: 48

Tip:- you may also try gluten free ginger bread and almond biscotti .

8. Easy sugar cookies

Sugar cookies are not all that healthy, but tasty and loved by most kids. Here is an easy sugar cookie recipe for kids , although we recommend you don’t do it too often.

You will need:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 cup butter, softened
• ¾ cup white sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp white vinegar
• Colored sugar, for sprinkling

How to:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2. Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl, until they mix well. Add the vanilla extract and vinegar and beat until the mixture becomes fluffy.
3. Combine the flour and the baking soda in another bowl and mix well.
4. Stir the flour into the butter and sugar mixture and mix well until you get a smooth dough.
5. Scoop a tablespoon of dough for one cookie, flatten it a little, and place it on a greased cookie tray. Place each cookie at least two centimeters apart.
6. Top the cookies with colored sugar granules and bake for 8-10 minutes.
7. Let the cookies sit on the tray for two to three minutes before transferring them to a wire rack.

Store them in an air-tight cookie jar and enjoy.

Preparation time: 40min
Servings: 20

Note:- We can make them healthy by switching the flour to quinoa, oatmeal or even buckwheat .

9. Almond biscottis

Biscottis are the Italian variants of English biscuits and the American cookies. Biscottis are not round, but just as delicious as the regular cookies you make. These are simple yet great tasting and healthy and as far as the size goes you can make it wide or narrow as you want .

You will need:

• ¾ cup whole wheat flour
• ¾ cup unbleached all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup slivered almonds
• ¾ cup sugar
• ¼ tsp salt
• ½ tbsp baking powder
• 6 tbsp sweetened applesauce
• 1.5 tbsp canola oil
• 1/2 tsp pure almond extract
• 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract

How to:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F and line up a baking sheet with a parchment paper.
2. In a bowl, whisk the applesauce, sugar, canola oil, vanilla, and almond extracts. Whisk to mix them well.
3. In another bowl, mix the flours, salt, and baking powder. Stir in the flour mixture to the sugar mixture and stir it into a smooth dough. In the end, mix the dough with your hands to mix it well.
4. Flour your hands and make small logs of dough and flatten them into 3-inch wide and ¾-inch thick.
5. Place the logs on the parchment paper and bake for 25 minutes and bring the temperature down to 300°F.
6. Remove from the sheet and let them cool for 15 minutes. Slice the logs into ½-inch wide slices and bake for 1-10 minutes. Flip the slices and bake for another 8-12 minutes.
7. Transfer the slices to a wire rack for cooling.

Store in an airtight container for up to two weeks.

Preparation time: 35min
Servings: 15

10. Cranberry pistachio shortbread

Shortbread is a finer and softer version of the cookie. Here is an eggless cookie recipe for kids.

Though the basic recipe is simple but here the right ratio of ingredients helps in retaining its taste and shape.These cookies are very special as they not only look attractive with combination of 2 colours of green and red but also tastes good.

You will need:

• 1 ½ cups butter, softened
• 3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• ½ cup white sugar
• 1 cup dried cranberries
• 1 cup pistachios, toasted
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp salt

How to:

1. Blend the butter, sugar, maple syrup, and vanilla extract into a creamy mixture, using an electric beater.
2. Mix the flour and the salt. Add the flour mixture, one cup at a time, to the buttercream and mix using a wooden spoon or a spatula. Stir in the pistachios and cranberries.
3. Divide the dough into two portions and shape each portion into a 10-inch log. Wrap the logs in parchment paper and refrigerate for two hours. You can chill it up to 24 hours.
4. Preheat oven to 350°F and line up a baking sheet with parchment paper.
5. Cut the logs into ½-inch or ¼-inch round slices and place them on the parchment paper.
6. Bake for around 18-20 minutes and let them cool for five minutes.

Let them cool completely before transferring them into a cookie jar.

Preparation time: 2h 45min
Servings: 60

Vegan Cookie Recipes

This section of our cookie recipes goes one step further to give you recipes that are free from any ingredients that come from animals. Most of these recipes use no more than three main ingredients.

11. Pumpkin oat cookies

This is yet another healthy cookie recipe with oats and pumpkin, which is available in plenty during the harvest season. It is super soft and chewy ,thick and full of pumpkin flavour. You can customize it by adding some chocolate chips or your favourite chopped nuts and ground cinnamon to have variations for your kids.

You will need:

• 2 ½ cups oats
• 1 cup pumpkin puree, organic
• 2 packets stevia, or as needed for taste

How to:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Mix the ingredients in a bowl, to form a dough. You can also add additional ingredients such as dried nuts, raisins, vanilla extract, and chocolate chips if you like.
3. Make ten cookie rounds with the dough.
4. Prepare a baking sheet with cooking spray and place the cookie doughs on it.
5. Bake for 10 minutes and let it cool for five minutes.

Store in an air-tight jar for up to a week or more.

Preparation time: 15min
Servings: 10

12. Coconut cookies

Coconut is one of the favorite ingredients of vegan chefs. This recipe makes delicious cookies using coconuts and bananas. If you are a coconut lover and want to munch on a crispy cookie without an egg then this one is for you !! The 3 ingredient cookie makes it pretty simple ,chewy ,delicious and also adds health by fibre content ,vitamins and minerals.

You will need:

• 1 cup shredded coconut
• ⅓ cups oats
• 2 ripe bananas

How to:

1. Preheat oven to 350° F and line up a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Add the shredded coconut and oats to a blender and grind them until they look like Panko flakes.
3. Peel and cut the bananas and add them to the blender. Grind the ingredients into a smooth paste.
4. Use a tablespoon to form cookies on the parchment paper.
5. Bake for 20 minutes or until they turn light brown.
6. Once done, let them cool for five minutes.

Serve warm. Let them cool completely before transferring them to an airtight container.

Preparation time: 30min
Servings: 15

13. Easy almond cookies

This is an easy recipe to make vegan almond cookies that are tastier and healthier ( by addition of protein, carbohydrates, fibre, fats, vitamin A, vitamin B complex ,calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium )than most of their non-vegan counterparts.

You will need:

• 2 cups finely ground almond flour
• 1/3 cup dark maple syrup
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

How to:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F and line up a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Use a whisk to mix the almond flour and baking soda in a bowl.
3. Stir in the maple syrup and vanilla syrup using a wooden spatula. Stir it until you get sticky, but smooth dough.
4. Use a tablespoon to scoop out small rounds of dough for the cookies. Place the rounds on the parchment paper and flatten them lightly by tapping them with your fingers.
5. Bake for about 12 minutes or until the cookies turn light brown.

Let the cookies cool for three minutes and store in an airtight jar, once they’ve cooled down completely.

Note: If you want crispy cookies, flatten the dough well. Otherwise, do not flatten it too much.

Preparation time: 20min
Servings: 16

14. Fudgy cookies

This recipe lets you make gluten-free, healthy, detox cookies using only plant-based ingredients.

These cookies are rich, soft fudge cookies easy and quick to make.

You will need:

• 3 ripe bananas or 1 ½ cup mashed or pureed banana
• ½ cup creamy peanut butter
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• Sea salt for taste

How to:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F and line up a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Combine the mashed bananas, peanut butter, and cocoa powder, and whisk until it is smooth and uniform in consistency.
3. Scoop a tablespoon of the dough and place it on the parchment paper, while leaving enough space between each cookie.
4. Bake for 8-15 minutes or until the cookie turns lightly brown.

Leave the cookies to cool on the wire rack. Store in an airtight jar.

Note: You can sprinkle salt over the cookies once they are done, or you can add the salt to the batter.

Preparation time: 25min
Servings: 24

15. Sunflower seeds and dates cookies

Dates and sunflower seeds. It doesn’t get healthier than this when it comes to cookies! And you just need three ingredients. It is Gluten free ,Vegan, Refined sugar free , Nut free, 3 ingredient ,Dairy free, Allergy free Cookies !!

You will need:

• 1 cup pitted dates
• 1 cup sunflower seed butter
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

How to:

1. Preheat oven to 325°F and line up a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Soak the dates for five minutes. Drain the water and add the dates to a food processor.
3. Add the sunflower seed butter and vanilla extract and blend them into a soft but not watery puree.
4. Roll the dough into one-inch balls and flatten them into the shape of a cookie.
5. Bake for 15 minutes and let them cool afterward, for five minutes.

Let them cool and store in an airtight jar for no more than five days.

Preparation time: 25min
Servings: 24

Quick And Easy Cookie Recipes For Kids

Want to keep your kids busy with something productive? Get them to help you make cookies.

16. Chocolate thumbprint cookies

A fun cookie recipe that even your four-year-old can help you with. The coconut oil supplies quick energy to body and brain and increases HdL good cholesterol too. Buckwheat flour has second highest protein content of all cereals .This is definetly a good choice for bakers or Moms who want to pack it with nutrients .

You will need:

• 100g plain flour
• 90g buckwheat flour
• 60g castor sugar
• 180g toasted hazelnuts
• 100g dark chocolate, chopped roughly
• 180g unsalted butter
• 1 tsp coconut oil

How to:

1. Prepare a cookie tray with parchment paper.
2. Ground the toasted hazelnuts in a food processor, until they become a smooth powder.
3. Add the flours, sugar, and salt to the hazelnut powder in the blender and process for 20-39 seconds. Add the butter and pulse for a few seconds until the mix comes together.
4. Take the dough out of the processor and knead it to a smooth dough, using your hands.
5. Make small balls of the dough and place them on the parchment paper, at a distance of 2cm from each other. You can have the kids do this for you.
6. Ask the kids to press lightly in the middle of the cookie rounds, using their thumbs. Put the cookie tray in the fridge for 30 minutes.( chilling the dough is very important or you may use back of spoons or spatula to avoid burning your thumb while making indents or if you really want to go traditional way then just have ice on standby )
7. Bake the cookies for 15-20 minutes at 350°F.
8. In a microwave bowl, melt the chopped chocolate.
9. Once the cookies are cool enough, pour a teaspoon each of the melted chocolate on the cookie. Set them aside until the chocolate has set.

Serve immediately.

Preparation time: 40min
Servings: 25

17. Jello cookies

Cookies are usually brown. How about giving them some color? Here comes in Jello cookies which are bright and colourful .The recipe is a fun way to get kids involved in the kitchen and they are super easy to make too as the dough is almost like play dough and mixing it is fun for kids. Not only this they can have fun combining different colours and flavours too. This cookie recipe tells you how your children can make these simple, but colorful cookies during playtime .

You will need:

• 3 ¼ cups flour
• 1 ½ cups unsalted butter, softened
• 4 (3 oz) packages of jello
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Food coloring, optional

How to:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. In a bowl, beat the sugar and butter into a fluffy mixture. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
3. Whisk the flour and baking soda in another bowl and stir it into the egg mixture gradually.
4. Divide this mixture into four bowls and let your child knead them smoothly into cookie dough. You can add food colors to the dough if you like.
5. Roll the dough into 1-inch balls. Roll them in jello sugar and place them on the parchment paper in the cookie tray.
6. Use the bottom of a bowl to flatten the cookie dough balls.
7. Bake them for 8-10 minutes and let them cool on a wire rack afterward.

Store them in an airtight container for up to a week.

Preparation time: 30min
Servings: 36

Note ;- Avoid using synthetic colours for kids.

Whether it is Christmas, Halloween, or summer vacation, it is always a good time for cookies. Vary the ingredients used in the recipes to make more varieties of cookies that are both tasty and healthy for kids. They will never get bored of these treats then.

While the recipes might not be totally out of the  box but i feel the small important changes made makes them just Perfect in every way .Hope you will try them .!!!!

18. Zucchini Quinoa cookies- packed with health taste and newness.

You will need;-

• 1cup zucchini
• 1 medium banana
• ½ cup peanut butter
• ¼ cup honey
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tbsp flaxseed
• 3 tbsp water
• ½ cup quinoa
• ½ cup rolled oats
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ salt
• ¼ cinnamon powder
• ¼ nutmeg powder

How to make;-

1. pre heat the oven to 350 F
2. mash banana in a bowl
3. stir in peanut butter ,vanilla extract ,honey, quinoa, rolled oats, baking powder ,salt, cinnamon powder ,nutmeg powder
4. in a separate bowl combine flaxseed and water to make a paste and to the cookie mixture .
5. combine all ingredients well till you get a smooth dough
6. scoop out the cookie dough and place it in circular shape on a baking tray lined with a baking sheet .
7. bake for 15-18 minutes only.

Serve Immediately !

Preparation Time –25 mins
Serving –15

19. 3 Ingredient Banana Oatmeal cookie -Vegan /gluten free /refined sugar free /fibre rich /protein rich cookies

You will need;-

• 1 cup quick oats
• ½ cup rolled oats
• 2 medium banana

How to:-

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. In a bowl mash the banana
3. Add oats and combine to make a dough
4. Throw in the chocolate chips and stir well until they are spread throughout
5. Take a spoonful of dough in your hand and form in a shape of a cookie
6. Place on cooking sheet and bake for 12-15 min only .

Serve immediately.

Preparation Time –20 min
Serving 16

Infographic: Baking Perfect Cookies With Children

Spending a little time in the kitchen with your children will help you create lifetime memories with them and also help them develop essential life skills. So, if you have been recently planning to bake cookies with your children, save this infographic. We have provided some useful tips to help you enjoy every minute of it with your children.

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