Baking with purées?

[namasteak]

Does anyone have good recipes for baking with baby food purées? We have a lot of pouches that I bought on sale before Ds3 started his purée strike and I thought baking with them would be a good idea.

[orval]

Jessica Seinfeld's cookbooks use tons of purees in the recipes. Her website has some. I have tried some -- they were all pretty decent if I remember correctly.

jessicaseinfeld.com/recipes/category/deceptively-delicious

[lo]

I tried making pancakes with some once and they didn’t come out great. I also use them in smoothies

[arehopsveggies]

We got so many jars from wic and my son couldn’t handle purées with his swallowing issues.

I often throw a jar of fruit or squash into muffins or pancakes. It can make some muffins a little gummy but not bad.

I also throw a jar of veggies into rice or couscous. They love carrots in couscous.

If we are having soup I add jars of veggies and or the meat purée

[greenmonkey1]

I used up leftover fruit baby food to make applesauce muffins. The recipe I use is from Mark Bittman's How to Bake Anything cookbook. There are a bunch of applesauce muffin recipes online too.

The savory ones I would put in spaghetti sauce, chili, burrito filling, or macaroni and cheese (butternut squash was the right color and didn't seem to change the flavor so much the kids would notice).

The ones I wasn't sure about baking/cooking with I donated to the local food pantry.

[sent]

Someone from the local pantry came by and took all the last of mine today. They were mostly fruit ones but I no longer have the energy or creativity to have used them up in cooking. I'm relieved they're gone, hopefully someone else will eat them, and I got an entire shelf of my cabinet back.

[arehopsveggies]

Another idea- my kids like them frozen in popsicle molds. Sometimes I do just purée and sometimes I make them half yogurt.

[sunflower17]

sallysbakingaddiction.com/baby-apple-banana-oat-muffins/

These muffins are pretty easy and good for kids. It says you could replace the applesauce with any fruit or veggie purée.