Now that school is back, I find filling the lunch boxes each day with foods that are healthy as well as satisfying for your children can be a bit challenging at times. Especially towards the end of the week when my fridge stores are running a little low.
If you have a food processor, these cookies are a great homemade option for the lunch box. You can store them in your pantry or keep a batch in the freezer for when you need a quick and nutritious snack.
Enjoy,
Amanda (Simple home cook)
Oat & Bran Cookies
Ingredients
1 cup plain flour
1 cup bran cereal
1 cup rolled oats
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
70g butter, chilled & diced
½ cup caster sugar
1 egg
1 Tbspn water
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Line an oven tray with baking paper.
- In a food processor or thermomix, add flour, bran, oats, bicarb soda & butter. Process until crumbly.
- Add sugar, egg & water & process until a firm dough forms.
- On a floured bench, roll out dough to about ½ cm thick. Cut biscuits using a cookie cutter or the rim of a glass. Place on tray. Alternatively, to save time, roll the dough into balls & place on a tray. Flatten with a fork. Leave space of 2cm between each biscuit for spreading.
- Bake for 13 to 15 mins. Leave to cool on tray for 5 mins before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
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6 Comments
Mandy, Barbie Bieber and Beyond
February 5, 2015 at 8:50 pmI’m after some healthy biscuit recipes for lunchboxes! Thanks for this!
Reemski
March 4, 2015 at 12:34 pmDo you mean bran cereal as in All Bran or bran as is plain old bran from the healthfood aisle?
Amanda from Simple home cook
March 4, 2015 at 8:59 pmHi Reemski, you can use All Bran (or similar brands) as well as the ordinary processed bran (brown sticks) in the cereal or healthfood isle of your supermarket.
Regards
Amanda
Heidi
January 19, 2016 at 1:09 pmI am looking for a biscuit recipe where I can freeze the final biscuit. Would these be suitable? We are terrible with fresh biscuits in our family and they will just be eaten, if not frozen. Thank you.
Ellie
January 21, 2017 at 7:42 amThanks for the recipe, I realised after I’d prepped to make them that I don’t have a food processor but they worked okay with a stand mixer, just had chunkier bits! And also realised too late that id donated my rolling pin to the kids play doh kit so made do with a drink bottle, also worked fine! Kids loved helping too
Ness
January 28, 2017 at 10:30 amHello! They look yum but does anyone know if you can replace the 1/2 cup of sugar with anything?? That seems a lot.