Boom Cookies
You can easily bake these cookies with a toddler
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Our author left a lot of nerves when baking cookies with toddlers. Until one day she invented the boom biscuits. The little ones also find them much better than carving out. And the kitchen can still be used afterwards.
Every time we baked, I felt like an unwelcome chief inspector and the ultimate brake on fun. “No, we can’t roll the dough out on the floor. Oh, I think we’ll have to do that again. Oops, the reindeer has lost its head. AAAAAHHHHH, don’t put the whole package of flour on the table!” UFF !!!
My feared opponents:
1. My raw egg paranoia (help, salmonella danger)
2. The flour on the table top, uh … in the entire kitchen
3. The dispute over the dinosaur cookie cutter
4. The frustration after two minutes, when the first euphoria subsides
We have now banned all of that from our pre-Christmas season in one fell swoop. We have boom cookies. And many. Without flour base. Without egg. Without dinosaur. And with a lot of fun that doesn’t let up.
The dough
The dough is actually pretty much any. The main thing is that it is a cookie dough for children, without eggs and without baking powder. The simplest variant: You mix the following ingredients together:
250 g soft butter
100 g powdered sugar
3 sachets of vanilla sugar
150 g of flour
220 g cornstarch
Ka-BUMMMM!
Chill the dough for half an hour and then the fun can begin. Form small balls and place them on a cold baking sheet. Now it’s your child’s turn. It can hit the ball as hard as it wants with the palm of its hand. It’s even funnier to shout BUMM loudly. Then put in the oven at 175 degrees until the biscuits lightly brown and the arbor is ready. You can then decorate in peace the next day. Or you can leave it, also fine. Best of all, your kitchen doesn’t look like a drug lab and your nerves are all still there. And that after a baking session with a toddler. Sounds amazing. But it really works.