Description
Delicious chocolate chunk cookies bursting with lactation-supporting ingredients like Brewers yeast, flaxseed and oats!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup oats
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup Brewers yeast
- 1/2 cup ground flaxseed
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 1/2 sticks butter (20 tablespoons), softened to room temperature
- 8 tablespoons virgin coconut oil
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 4 large eggs
- 4 cups chocolate chunks, chopped chocolate and/or regular or mini chocolate chips
- flaky sea salt (for garnish, optional)
Instructions
1. In a food processor, process the oats until fine, essentially making an ‘oat flour’. You can leave them whole, but I’ve tried both ways and really love the texture of these cookies made with oat flour.
2. In a large bowl combine the pulsed oats, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, Brewers yeast, flaxseed and cinnamon, stir to combine. Set aside.
3. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and coconut oil until light, 2 minutes. Add the sugars and cream for additional 4-5 minutes, until very light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time beating well after each addition for about 30 seconds. Add the vanilla extract and lemon juice.
4. Gradually add dry ingredients into the batter, this is a mega batch so your bowl will be FULL. Fold in the chocolate. Line a baking tray with parchment or a baking mat and scoop cookies (using cookie or ice cream scoop) into mounds. I like pretty large cookies (about 3-4 tablespoons each) but choose whichever cookie size you desire! Place in freezer for 1-2 hours.
5. Preheat oven to 350. Place cookies on lined baking tray 2 inches apart. Bake for 11-13 minutes until just BARELY golden on top. Do NOT overbake these! It’s better to slightly underbake than overbake, keep a close eye out because all ovens are different and if you change the size of the cookie, the baking time will vary.
6. Sprinkle with sea salt as a final garnish if you’re feeling fancy like that.
Notes
If you choose not to bake these right away, here are the freezing instructions. Complete through step four (placing mounds on cookie sheet and freezing for 2 hours). Once cookie mounds are completely frozen, transfer cookies to a gallon-sized Ziploc bag, seal tightly and lay flat in the freezer. Label the bag with the date, cooking temp and time. Cooking time for this recipe is 11-13 minutes, from the freezer they will take closer to 13 minutes. Cookies last 3 months in the freezer. When ready to eat, preheat oven to 350, place desired number of cookies on a tray and bake straight from frozen (no need to thaw).
I use this food processor and this stand mixer.
I don’t love the smell or taste of Brewer’s yeast (see video lol!) but I promise, you cannot taste it in these cookies!
I have never tried this recipe with gluten free flour but it’s certainly worth a shot if you’d like to try!
As far as making these vegan you could try subbing vegan butter and doing flax eggs instead of regular eggs.
You could certainly use all chips in this recipe. But I think they are even more amazing when you use a combo of either chopped chocolate (from a bar) or chocolate chunks and mini or regular chips. The variety is everything and gives you wonderful rich pockets of chocolate!
There is quite a lot of fat in these cookies from the butter and coconut oil. You can attempt to reduce the fat but it will result in a drier cookie. The amount of fat here makes for a filling snack and can support the calorie needs of a breastfeeding mom.
This is a VERY large batch of cookies- my philosophy is that if you’re going to go to all this effort, may as well make it worth it! And these freeze beautifully, I have never actually cooked them all in one go.