High Fibre Cookies

I think the most common dilemma of parents nowadays is how to get their little ones to take in more fibre.  My girls for one, do not like the greens although they will eventually eat them, after lots of coaxing, that is.  So when I stumbled upon a recipe for high fibre cookies, I did not hesitate in trying it out.  The girls sure like cookies.  Incorporating fibre into cookies seem to be a brilliant idea. 

The recipe is adapted from the book ‘100 Desserts’ by Winnie.

Ingredients :

150g      unsalted butter (room temperature)

4tbsps   brown sugar

2tbsps   castor sugar

1            egg  (room temperature)

240g      flour

50g        wholemeal wheat flour

1 ½ tsps vanilla essence

2tbsps   pumpkin seeds

2tbsps   flaxseed

2tbsps   toasted sesame seeds

4tbsps  chopped walnut

Method :

1)      Beat butter, brown sugar and castor sugar till creamy.  Add in the egg and vanilla essence.  Mix well.

2)      Add flour and wholemeal wheat flour.  Mix well.  Knead  into dough.  Stir in the rest of the ingredients.

3)    Shape into rounds of 0.5cm thick.

4)      Bake in preheated oven at 180 deg C for 18 minutes.

5)      Leave cool on a rack and serve. 

The cookies has a nice nutty taste due to the walnut.      The girls like it and I am glad that I have somehow found a wat to introduce more fibre in their diet.