LACTATION COOKIES


A little info on this recipe... it's not one of our freezer club meals, but it's a great recipe and freezes well in dough or baked form. And, we're all moms of preschoolers & babies.... something like this is helpful ;-)  It does work for lactation increase. But they're also great "healthy" cookies to give kids & hubby - they taste great! I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to "icky" sounding ingredients... but I promise, you can't taste them - they're just really good cookies!

* Makes 40 cookies

1 C butter 
1 C sugar 
1 C brown sugar 
4 T water 
2 T flaxseed meal (no substitutions) 
2 Lg eggs 
1 teaspoons vanilla 
2 teaspoons cinnamon 
2 C flour 
1 teaspoons baking soda 
1 teaspoons salt 
3 C Thick cut oats (Old fashioned oats are OK)
2 C Chocolate chips 
2 T Brewers Yeast (or nutritional yeast)

Cooking Directions:
* Mix 2 T of flaxseed meal and water, set aside 3-5 minutes. 
* Cream butter and sugar.
* Add eggs. 
* Stir flaxseed mix into butter mix, add vanilla and cinnamon. 
* Beat until well blended. Sift: dry ingredients, except oats and choc chips. 
* Add butter mix to dry ingredients. 
* Stir in the oats and then the choc chips. 
* Drop on parchment paper on baking sheet. Bake 8-12 minutes at 375 degrees.

Freezing Directions:
* Once cool, freeze in air tight container
* OR freeze balls of dough on a cookie sheet - once frozen, put them in a freezer bag. Then you can make a few at a time when needed.

Reheating Directions:
* Let thaw on counter or microwave for a few seconds if already baked.
* If raw dough, take a couple out of freezer and bake at 375 for 10 minutes - watch them carefully so they don't burn.

NOTE: These cookies tend to dry out after 24 hours - even in an airtight container. Slip a slice of bread in with the cookies, it will keep them moist (the bread will dry out instead). 

* Improved upon from an epicurious.com recipe

2 comments:

  1. What is the yeast for? It doesn't say to add it to the dough..

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    1. I'm sorry for the delayed response! I just now saw it. The brewers yeast is added with all the other dry ingredients. Brewers yeast is known to help with lactation and increasing your supply. Some choose to use nutritional yeast and claim it works just as well. Different people have different opinions. I've tried these cookies both ways and you cannot taste the brewers yeast when they're made - just let them cool a bit first. They're not so awesome hot.

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