Pizza cookies

Luigi, like most toddlers, likes to snack throughout the day. He eats only a little at a time, but he eats often, which is actually quite challenging since I want him to eat healthy things. Most snack-type foods don’t even qualify remotely as “healthy”, so what’s a mom to do?

Luigi’s favorite all-time food is cheese, but eating too much of that can produce rather unpleasant results.  His second favorite is pizza – at least there’s some tomato there – but it’s not very convenient as a snack food. The idea is to have something that is already prepared that he can have whenever hunger strikes.

With that in mind I started wondering what I could do to make a quick, toddler-friendly (in other words hand-held and non-messy) snack. Cookies are handy, but not healthy. After looking through tons of recipes I modified one and came up with

Pizza Cookies

4 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup shredded provolone cheese
1/2 cup grated parmigiano
1 Tbsp.tomato paste
1 pinch garlic powder
1 pinch oregano
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 pinch salt

I put everything in the food processor and mixed it together until I could see it was getting very moist. Then I took it out and formed it into a ball with my hands. I rolled it out to about 1/4 inch thick and cut it with some of my smallest cookie cutters. (I didn’t like the dog too much, the legs were too small and tended to brown too fast). I experimented with various thicknesses, but less than 1/4 inch became too crunchy.

Oh, and I cooked them at 425 degrees in a preheated oven for about 8 minutes.

The verdict, delicious….

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