Cooking: recipes for healthy sweets for children

2016-08-01 10:21

Cooking: recipes for healthy sweets for children
Every mother knows that the amount of sugar in the diet of the child should be limited. Ideally, to completely eliminate store-bought candies, chocolates, biscuits and other flour products, sugary juices and sodas. But because the child wants sweets.

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Therefore, eliminating harmful sweets, you need to offer a decent alternative.

Halva
For making the “right” halva will need only two ingredients: unroasted seeds of sunflower and a little honey. 150 g peeled sunflower seeds pour into a heated dry pan and lightly fry. If you are very roast the seeds, the paste will turn a beautiful brown color, but will give unrefined sunflower oil.

Pour the seeds into the blender and chop first dry fine crumbs, then begin to stand oil, the mass will gather in the walls of the bowl, the crumbs become wet. At this stage you need to add 1 teaspoon of honey, once to break.

Form a wet and sticky crumb balls, halva is ready! Before serving, you can send it for 15 minutes in the refrigerator.

Oatmeal cookies
Useful variations of oatmeal cookies without sugar, flour and butter, there are many. Here are two simple recipe. First : with a fork mash 2 ripe bananas and add to them a Cup of oatmeal, mix well, form balls or pellets, place on a baking sheet with a Mat or baking paper. Send in a preheated 180 degree oven for 15-20 minutes.
Second: mix a Cup of oatmeal, 200 grams of cheese, half grated Apple and one banana. From the resulting thick and sticky mass to form cookies.

Candy made from dried fruits
These superkarin candy can be easily made in 10 minutes from raisins, dried apricots, prunes, dates, figs. Pre-soaked dry fruits send in a blender and chop, if desired, add shredded coconut, seeds or nuts. From the resulting mass roll into balls, roll in the shavings, sesame seeds or cocoa powder. Briefly put in the refrigerator.

Manne mousse
This airy dessert will need Apple sauce (you can buy ready-made purees for baby food or make it yourself – baked in the oven or microwave sweet apples and Apple juice – freshly squeezed or store-bought with no added sugar. In a saucepan, mix 200 g of Apple juice and 200 g of applesauce, stir in 40 g of semolina, bring to the boil and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, cool to room temperature. If you want you can add a pinch of cinnamon.

Beat with a mixer at high speed – mousse needs to increase in volume several times and become very lush. Place kremanku (as an option – pour into biscuit base) and send in the fridge for a couple of hours to solidify.

Plum souffle
If you take the roasted juicy plums, sugar is definitely not needed. The process of making a souffle is simple: 500 g plums (weight without bones) cut into pieces and preroute blender. If the skin from the plums tender, it can not be removed. Add 10 g of gelatin, stir and leave for 10 minutes to gelatin swollen.

After 10 minutes, heat the mash, but do not allow it to boil. Pour the puree into a bowl and start whisking. After about 20 minutes puree will turn into a air foam, increasing in volume several times. Pour the whipped souffle in the form with cling film, refrigerate for 2 hours for gelation. If you wish, you can experiment and instead of draining to take garden fruit like strawberries or blackcurrants.

Apple pastille
Candy can be prepared with a large amount of sugar – it will be soft and moist, like marmalade, and with a minimal amount or no sugar – candy will get stiffer and drier, almost like a chewing gum, which gradually melts in your mouth – the kids love it!

1.5 kg of apples cut into quarters, place in a saucepan with a thick bottom, pour 50 ml of water, bring to the boil and simmer, covered for about 15 minutes – the flesh should turn into a puree. Remove the lid and, stirring occasionally, until puree thickens slightly. Wipe the applesauce through a sieve or colander. You should get about 1 kg of puree.

Baking tray lay a foil, forming the sides, grease it with vegetable oil. Pour the applesauce on the tray, flatten (layer should be about 0.5 cm). Send in a preheated 70 ° C oven for 6-8 hours. The finished candy is a hard, dry surface. Allow the candy to cool and remove from foil, cut into strips and roll into rolls. You can wrap in cling film and store in the refrigerator.

Banana ice cream
The basis of this ice cream – ripe bananas, they must be cleaned, cut into pieces and send it to 2-3 hours in the freezer. After you remove the bananas and chop them with a blender – you should obtain a creamy mass, reminiscent of melted ice-cream. At the stage of grinding of the bananas, you can add frozen berries (strawberry, of course, simply delicious 1 banana, 100 g of berries), and when serving, sprinkle ice cream, orange zest, chopped nuts or chocolate chips.

Bon appetit!