Baking One Handed: Lactation Cookies

Five days after my last post, my husband and I welcomed our little girl into the world! She's the most amazing and beautiful baby and we could not be more proud to be her parents. To anyone who has had the blessing of becoming a parent, you know how quickly your world changes, in the best way imaginable! Now my husband does most of the cooking because I'm busy nursing.
 In the past 11 weeks, I have learned to do many things one handed including laundry, hanging cloth diapers, making grilled cheese and quesadillas, and baking cookies... Lactation cookies to be more exact.  My little love is but a napper. Once she napped for 15 minutes so I quickly whipped up a batch of my regular chocolate chip cookies. They were fabulous! I had missed them! However, I have discovered a great recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies from Simplistically Living.

I follow this recipe exactly from Simplistically Living.

Ingredients:
-2 Tbsp. Flaxseed meal
-4 Tbsp. Water
-1 C. Butter, softened
-1 C sugar
-1 C brown sugar
-2 eggs
-1 tsp. Each of Vanilla, cinnamonsalt, and baking soda
-3 Tbsp Peanut Butter
-4 Tbsp brewer's yeast
-2 C flour
-3 C oatmeal
-2 C chocolate chips

Directions: Combine the flaxseed meal and water. Let it sit while you work on the rest of the dough... Just remember to add it later! I've forgotten 2 of the 3 times I've made them and have had to add it after the chocolate chips.

Then cream butter and sugars. Beat in your eggs. Next, add vanilla, cinnamon, salt and baking soda. Then stir in the brewer's yeast and the flaxseed mixture. Continue with the peanut butter and flour. The final step in the mixer (if you're using one) is to mix in the oatmeal. The dough is super thick so I hand stir the chocolate chips.

Scoop tablespoons of dough onto a cookie sheet. This recipe will yield about 60 cookies.

Then bake at 350° for about 10 minutes. Allow to cool and enjoy!

My thoughts on the recipe?
The cookies are delicious and anyone can eat them. No, they won't make you lactate!
I love the texture of the cookies and would have been pleased with this recipe on my hunt for the best chocolate chip cookie. I keep the cookies in the freezer and eat two during late night feedings. The peanut butter flavor is faint; the cinnamon is more noticeable. The ingredients for these are pricey, but I can make the recipe several times before needing more brewer's yeast.

And in case you're wondering, thanks to Google keyboard, I wrote this whole post one handed...


Please also note, I wrote this post about two months ago, but never added the pictures so I never published the post. Better late than never, right?