The kids are tired of oatmeal, so today I did a variation of my Choc-Ban-Oat-Cran-Wal Cookies…. except I didn’t want to spend time scooping out cookie dough. Hubby is home helping me take care of the sick kids, for the second day, but the little one woke up early with a terrible sounding cough, reminding me of that bug he gut when he was just two weeks old. That time, dh had a trip to Germany and left me almost in tears, scared of the baby’s illness that made him sound pitifully like an old man with something blocking his throat.
I really should write up the recipe for next time…. but it goes something like this:
about 6 tablespoons of my favorite Kerrygold Irish butter, salted, which I broke into bits and mixed (with my hands, too lazy to start the mixer)
with about 3/4 cup of brown sugar and 1/4 cup white — maybe agave next time
then 2 large eggs from my favorite Amish farmer
a huge splash of vanilla extract
a small splash of rice milk
WHISK-WHISK-WHISK
add some freshly-milled whole wheat flour… about a cup
and then because i had it, i dumped in some White Lily flour too (trying to get rid of this bag which I used for baking some biscuits for a party)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
about 7 plain oatmeal packets from our Oatmeal variety box — it’s always the unflavored ones that get left out!
a handful of flax seeds
a handful of sesame seeds
maybe next time I’ll add in some hemp as well
LARGE handful of Craisins
handful of almonds, chopped roughly
handful of chocolate chips, just because it makes the kids feel extra-special <3
a mashed banana
a tablespoon or so of cinnamon
and finally, I meant to add only a few tablespoons of applesauce — however, I decided to “dump” instead of spoon (the spoons were on the other side of the counter and I was lazy)… and about a cup of applesauce fell into the batter.
The rest of the procedure is simple:
Pick up undiapered baby — who takes great pleasure lately in running around naked — put him on counter, hand him a spatula while you get yours, and MIX MIX MIX. Baby sees a chocolate chip and eats it without even asking! 😀
Spray baking sheet, the large one (I think mine is 10 x 15) spread evenly, and bake 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees. Whoops. I should have said *preheat*. Oh well.
ETA: I forgot to add. The inspiration for this comes from
– a recent try of an Oatmeal Bake recipe, a combo I made up from Martha and Lindsay’s recipes over at 4real, which was a hit with the soon-to-be-14-yo, the 1-yo and me
– our favorite homemade granola recipe
and the other blog post’s cookie recipe.
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