The BEST lactation cookies

Lactation cookies: a reason to eat cookies? Yes, please!

As a breastfeeding working mom I had a little help in keeping my supply up: COOKIES!

When I was pregnant with Michael my love of chocolate chip cookies greatly intensified and I had at least one a day. My obsession didn’t end with pregnancy and my sweet craving — especially for chocolate chip cookies — has stuck with me ever since.

When Michael was still nursing, I tried a million recipes for lactation cookies — cookies with a purpose! An excuse to eat even more! — and my favorite one came from Milkin’ Mamas, but the link doesn’t work anymore, so I’m re-typing it here.

You know a recipe is legit if it’s posted in the lactation room at work and dated almost two years prior! Enjoy!

The BEST lactation cookies (Makes a lot of cookies! Bake extras to share with your lactation room friends! Freeze what you don’t want to bake now!)

• 2 T flax seed meal
• 4 T water
• 1 c butter, soften to room temperature
• 1.5 c firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs, room teperature
• 1 t vanilla (I usually use don’t measure and just add a steady pour…)
• 2 c flour
• 3-4 T brewer’s yeast
• 1 t baking soda
• 1 t salt
• 3 c rolled oats
• 1 c chocolate chip (I prefer milk chocolate!)

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a small bowl, combine the flax seed meal and water. Let stand for 5 minutes. (This simulates an egg in texture for baking.)
3. In a large bowl or mixer, beat butter and brown sugar.
4. Add eggs and beat well.
5. Add flax seed mixture and vanilla, beat well.
6. Add dry ingredients: flour, brewer’s yeast, baking soda, and salt.
7. Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
8. Scoop rounded tablespoons onto baking tray.
9. Bake 12 minutes.
10. Cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooking rack.

Some notes: 

• Use whole oats, not quick oats. Extra thick oats are even better.
• Do not substitute the brewer’s yeast with regular yeast. These are not the same thing. Brewer’s yeast is available on Amazon, as well as at natural food stores.
• Flax seed meal is available at Trader Joe’s and natural food stores.

I would make a large batch of cookie dough, bake the cookies I needed for the week and then freeze the extras, so I could bake them whenever I needed cookies.

Need other ideas for keeping your supply high? Read this post!

 

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