Cornflake cookies and honey joys

Children have always enjoyed cooking with us at OSHC and there are regular staples that we all know and love. Cornflake cookies and honey joys are often a cheeky hit! Check out the recipes further on and get out your mixing bowls- it’s a-cookin’ time!

Catering for everyone is sometimes a challenge, but a challenge we’re very happy to take on at OSHC. A number of our team of educators have complicated health conditions and diets and many of us are adept at adapting recipes and working with a variety of ingredients, flavours, and concepts.

We also have lots of experience working with children who have food intolerances and allergies. These factors should not be considered limitations but challenges that can be overcome that can help us all learn about different flavours and textures, and other ways of working with food.

Recently Emily made cornflake cookies and honey joys with groups of children during both before school and after school care. The cornflake cookies included egg and butter- both no-no’s for those with an allergy or intolerance to egg and dairy. Honey joys however are egg and dairy free and a delicious alternative!

Here is Emily’s story about Danica getting stuck in!

After making cornflakes yesterday afternoon with some of the children, and Danica not being able to eat them, we decided to make some honey joys this morning.

Danica did the pouring and some of the mixing and helped put the mixture in the patty pans. 

We served the honey joys in the afternoon for snack and Danica took one with her fruit. We also have some for Danica to take home as Danica enjoyed making and eating them.

For future planning we can plan some more foods that are egg free and that can be an alternative.

This was brought on from Danica missing out on making the cornflake cookies and being able to enjoy eating them.

I asked Danica what they tasted like and she told me they tasted like candy pops.

Educator: Emily Wells

Outcome 1- children have a strong sense of identity 

Children feel safe, secure, and supported

Outcome 3- Children have a strong sense of well-being 

Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical well-being 

What recipes did you enjoy making when you were younger? Are there recipes that you enjoy making with your children at home? If you have anything to share we would love to give it a-go here at OSHC! Particularly if it’s something that we might not have tried before.. We like trying new things!

Please leave your thoughts or recipes in the comments!

Cornflake cookies recipe

Ingredients:

125g unsalted butter (we use dairy free Nuttelex where we can)

100g caster sugar (we often halve the amount of sugar too!)

1 egg

1 cup of self raising flour

A pinch of salt

2 cups of cornflakes, crushed, smashed, pulverised!

Optional- 1/4 cup of currants or any chopped dried fruit

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180ºC and line two trays with baking paper

Plug in your beaters and beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until nice and creamy

Then beat in the egg and fold in the flour, salt and dried fruit until combined

Place the crushed cornflakes into a bowl and spoon full tablespoons of the buttery mixture into the cornflakes. Toss the mixture gently in the cornflakes to coat and form rough ball shapes

Place the balls onto the baking trays with room to move as they bake. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden.

Cool the cookies on their tray for 10 minutes before removing to cool further on a wire rack

Honey joys recipe- oh joy!

Ingredients:

90g butter (we use dairy free Nuttelex)

1/3 cup of sugar

1 tablespoon of honey

4 cups of cornflakes

Method:

Preheat your oven to 150g

Line a 24 cup muffin tray with patty pan cases

Melt butter (Nuttelex), sugar, and honey in saucepan until it goes all frothy

Add the cornflakes and mix well, and then spoon the mixture into the patty pan cases- work quickly!

Bake in the oven for 10 minutes and then allow to cool on a wire rack