Recipes for Finger Foods for 9 Month Old

Here are some I got from babycenter. The sweet potato fries are still a staple in our house!

Baby Pancakes - not a biscuit recipe but a great finger food and we just had to include it!

1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup baby barley cereal (or other baby cereal)
1 cup formula (or another liquid such as milk)
1/2 cup mashed banana (or fruit of your choice)
1 tbsp melted margarine or butter (unsalted type)
3 EGG YOLKS
1/2 cup baby oatmeal
apple juice (about 1/2 cup) Use water if you prefer
Add cinnamon, nutmeg, dash of vanilla or other flavourings if you wish!

Mix all ingredients together and add enough juice to make pancake consistency. Cook on cook top in frying pan as with "regular" pancakes! **Freezes Well**
Eggless Baby Cereal Cookies

1 cup FLOUR
1 cup dry infant rice cereal with bananas (or other flavored or
unflavored infant cereal)
3 tablespoons cooking oil
ice water

Directions:
Preheat oven 425F
Mix flour and cereal.
Gradually stir in oil. Mix a little ice water at a time (start with 1/4 cup) until dough begins to form a ball and pull away from the bowl.
Roll out to the thickness of a cracker on a floured surface and cut into desired shapes.
Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet 10-12 min. or until lightly brown. Cool completely.

Store in an airtight container. (you may want to try 1/2 plain and 1/2 flavoured baby cereal as the taste when using full flavoured baby cereal is very strong!)
Eggless Baby Cereal Cookies

1 cup FLOUR
1 cup baby cereal
1 cup juice

Mix ingredients well. Roll out and cut into shapes. Bake for 20-30 min @ 350 deg. F.. Freezes Well
*Dough will be very sticky and seem "wrong" and may be hard to work with.
This is as it should be so do not panic! You may wish to add more flour and/or cereal to achieve a more doughy consistency.*

Sweet Potato Fries
Preheat oven to 400degrees(F)
Scrub sweet potatoes (approx 6 medium/large ones) clean and/or peel them if baby cannot handle the skins

Cut into sizes that will suit your needs or, cut into strips that you may then cut down after baking

In a large bowl, add about 1/4 cup of olive oil.
To this you may add cinnamon, ginger, a pinch of brown sugar, etc.. (I add cinnamon and sometimes a bit of brown sugar).

Toss the cut up sweet potatoes into the bowl and stir so that the potatoes are drenched with the olive oil mix.

Dump mixture onto a baking sheet and drizzle the remaining olive oil in the bowl over the potatoes on the baking sheet.
Stir and swirl the potatoes on the baking sheet before placing in oven.
Bake for approx 30-45minutes or until tender.

The skins may become crispy but the actual potato "meat" will not. They will be a bit mushy like. These will not look or bake up like regular white potato French Fries so don't be alarmed!

This is the basic way to do it and you can improvise as much as you want

www.wholesomebabyfoods.com is a great site and has lots of info and recipes including teething biscuits and finger foods.

This is not a cracker recipe, but one thing we did was get a can of soup- low sodium organic- and drained the soup out of it. The remaining veggies were the perfect consistency for my baby, dissolving easily, but also easy to pick up. A friend of mine swore by Israeli couscous as a finger food.
Good luck!

I don't have recipes for those, but wanted to suggest soft-cooked diced veggies. My daughter really liked bite-size mixed veggies at that age (still does!). I buy them frozen, and they're quick to cook, and they are great finger foods for practicing the pincer grasp.

I like to make fish cakes out of leftover mashed potatoes, and fish. Saute up some fine chopped onion, celery and red peppers remove from heat and add your fish and potatoes and an egg. Form into patties and either cook them all at that point and freeze or place the uncooked patties on a cookie sheet to freeze, then saute to cook from frozen.

Another easier option is to cook a small filet of flaky fish (like cod) and microwave the frozen mixed veggies. My guy always liked that, with a low-sodium Ritz cracker (broken into pieces) on the side.

The Everything Cooking for Baby and Toddler Book by Shana Priwer and Cynthia Phillips has great recipes and ideas! It really helped me to not fall into the 'mac & cheese cures everything' rut! My daughter also really loved the Organic Elmo Crunchin' Crackers by Earth's Best. Belle is 21 months now and still loves her Elmo crackers!