So I know that oatmeal is healthy for you but for the life of me I cannot get use to the texture. And neither can my children apparently. So I decided I was going to disguise something healthy into something they thought was a treat and I also let my inner child think this too. I decided what’s the easiest breakfast where I can precook them and not have to actually cook them the morning I was serving them. I came up with two ideas Pop tarts and pancakes(will give you the recipe in another post)
So here’s what I came up with
WHAT YOU NEED:
2 cups oatmeal flour (if you have oatmeal at home just throw it in the food processor till it has flour texture)
1/4 cup coconut oil (make sure it’s solid)
1/4 cup applesauce
1tsp vanilla extract
a pinch of salt
2 Tbsp cold water
1 egg for egg wash
Jam for filling
HOW TO MAKE IT
Mix all ingredients except jam and egg in a food processor until a dough is formed. Form into a ball cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate 10-15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 F
Place dough between two sheets of plastic wrap and roll out till an 1/8 of an inch think.
Cut out your poptarts using various shapes or a rectangle cookie cutter. Make sure you have 2 of every shape if using different shapes to form a top and a bottom for your poptart
Put cut shapes on a greased parchment paper. On half of the cut out shapes put some jam (the amount depends on the size you make them, you want to make sure you have a good amount of edges left so the jam doesn’t ooze out).
Take the other half of the shapes and put on top of your jam shapes. Seal edges with a fork and poke hole in the middle to let steam escape.
Brush tops with egg.
Bake 20-25 minutes until golden brown. They great warm or cold and you can reheat them in the oven or the microwave.
I forgot to take pictures as I went this time but will make sure to add some pictures to this blog next time