Sunday, August 15, 2010
Lactation Cookies
If I would have read the title of this post like five years ago I would have been like WTF? But having kids change everything and this recipe is too good not to share.
Many new moms who are breastfeeding worry about their milk supply. This is the perfect solution. (I haven't actually eaten enough to tell you how good it works, but people on the internet say it works so it must be true, right?) Anyhow it is a good excuse to eat a sweet treat.
Lactation Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup of butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 Tbsp water
2 Tbsp flax-seed meal
2 lg eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 cups thick cut oats
1 cup chocolate chips
2-4 Tbsp brewer's yeast
Mix 2 Tbsp flax seed meal with the water and set aside for 3-5 minutes (to let the flax-seed absorb the water)
Cream butter and sugars, add eggs.
Stir flax-seed mix into butter/sugar and add vanilla, beat until well blended.
Sift dry ingredients (except oats and chocolate chips)
Add butter mix to dry ingredients.
Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
Drop on parchment paper on baking sheet.
Bake at 350 for 8-12 minutes.
You can modify this recipe as you please but the ingredients (oats, brewer's yeast, and flax-seed meal should not be substituted as those are the milk boosters) I even added a few Fenugreek capsules. Well by few I mean 12. Just opened them up and sprinkled the powder in with the dry ingredients. Next time I think I am going to switch the chocolate chips for raisins!
So where do you buy Brewers Yeast or Flax-seed Meal?
This was the hardest part of the recipe for me. The best place to look is you local vitamin store. GNC carries it ( my local store was out) so I bought some from Vitamin World (for those of you on the MS Coast, it's at the Prime Outlet)
Your local grocery store probably carries flax-seed meal. At Rouse's it is in the organic section by the bread.
A lot of nursing moms say their supply drops in the afternoon, so grab a lactation cookie, a cup of Organic Mothers Milk Tea (sold at your local herbal/health foods store and Target), prop up your feet and relax.
Even if these cookies don't help, they taste good!!!
Many new moms who are breastfeeding worry about their milk supply. This is the perfect solution. (I haven't actually eaten enough to tell you how good it works, but people on the internet say it works so it must be true, right?) Anyhow it is a good excuse to eat a sweet treat.
Lactation Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup of butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 Tbsp water
2 Tbsp flax-seed meal
2 lg eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 cups thick cut oats
1 cup chocolate chips
2-4 Tbsp brewer's yeast
Mix 2 Tbsp flax seed meal with the water and set aside for 3-5 minutes (to let the flax-seed absorb the water)
Cream butter and sugars, add eggs.
Stir flax-seed mix into butter/sugar and add vanilla, beat until well blended.
Sift dry ingredients (except oats and chocolate chips)
Add butter mix to dry ingredients.
Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
Drop on parchment paper on baking sheet.
Bake at 350 for 8-12 minutes.
You can modify this recipe as you please but the ingredients (oats, brewer's yeast, and flax-seed meal should not be substituted as those are the milk boosters) I even added a few Fenugreek capsules. Well by few I mean 12. Just opened them up and sprinkled the powder in with the dry ingredients. Next time I think I am going to switch the chocolate chips for raisins!
So where do you buy Brewers Yeast or Flax-seed Meal?
This was the hardest part of the recipe for me. The best place to look is you local vitamin store. GNC carries it ( my local store was out) so I bought some from Vitamin World (for those of you on the MS Coast, it's at the Prime Outlet)
Your local grocery store probably carries flax-seed meal. At Rouse's it is in the organic section by the bread.
A lot of nursing moms say their supply drops in the afternoon, so grab a lactation cookie, a cup of Organic Mothers Milk Tea (sold at your local herbal/health foods store and Target), prop up your feet and relax.
Even if these cookies don't help, they taste good!!!
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