I have a fabulous friend about 38 weeks pregnant. I have been scratching my brain for something to do for her when the baby comes. Thinking back to when I was a brand new mom, I tried to remember what stressed me out the most. As those of you who know me can attest to, I entered motherhood with the grace of a hippo attempting ballet. Breastfeeding was one of my biggest struggles and I stayed up nights frantically searching the web for ideas in how to increase my milk supply.
Eventually I gave up the good fight. My sister however, had come across this recipe for lactation cookies. Eww, sounds weird right! She let me know how delicious they are, and I agree!
I gathered my ingredients. Of course, not shown here are the following: Salt, Baking Soda, White Chocolate Chips.
I use the recipe by Noel Trujillo found on Food.com: the only thing I change is to add 2 Tablespoons more of the flaxseed meal into the dry ingredients, because flax, brewer's yeast, and oatmeal are the ingredients thought to help with milk supply.
The first thing they have you do is mix 2 Tablespoons of Flaxseed Meal with 4 Tablespoons of water. This turns into an egg substitute for baking. There are eggs in this recipe however, so I think it may just to be to stop your flax from making your cookies fall apart. That needs to sit about 5 minutes to gum up.
Don't worry, you will be busy. Take 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar and mix well.
Add those 2 eggs on in and continue mixing.
Next add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
If you have waited the 5 minutes you can go ahead and add the flax now. It just looks delicious doesn't it!
Mix it well.
Combine your dry ingredients: 2 cups flood, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 Tablespoons Brewers yeast, and 2 Tablespoons flaxseed meal.
Dump it in and mix well. This would probably be the point where they tell you to incorporate it slowly, but I didn't, and it worked out just fine.
Add your 3 Cups of oats
Stir in 1 cup of chocolate chips. I did semi-sweet and white chocolate chips. You may have noticed the pictures look a little different. I switched over to the kitchen table and the natural light there is much better.
Drop the dough by teaspoonful onto a cookie sheet.
I ate some dough at this point and it was delicious. Yay, raw eggs.
Cook them at 350 for 12 minutes. Don't worry if their sides touch a little when they are done cooking, they come apart really well.
Not so bad for a flaxseed/brewer's yeast cookie huh
Soft and delicious looking on the inside. Oh no, I broke one, better eat it!
I love these cookie baking sheets. Got them at Target. Some people swear by the silicone matts. I am sure they are awesome as well but no more curling up of my parchment paper on my cookie sheet! Pet-peeve.
Of course look who came to investigate as the cookies came out of the oven
He also 'helped' with the dishes. Don't mind the sprinkles on his face!
Okay, the cookies turned out lovely, easy, and delicious.
I have purchased a cookie jar for my friend to keep her cookies in. Kids and husbands are smart so you have to trick them and hide them away because they are really good cookies, but now is the time mom's should be hoarding them for themselves.
I have heard that some mom's eat a cookie every time they breastfeed. The suggestion is to drink it with water as well so you are getting your cookie and staying hydrated. Most people eat about 6 a day! Wow, wish I was still breastfeeding :) These are really not low calorie or fat. 1 Cup of Butter and 2 Cups of Sugar. But they do make about 4 1/2 dozen cookies.
These cookies can be frozen and pulled out as you need them. These are going to make a wonderful gift for a new momma. Hopefully they are one less thing for her to have to think, about and if she should choose not to breastfeed, they are still pretty awesome cookies.
Thanks for checking out this post and enjoy!
Andrea
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