Freezable Lactation Cookies
These are my favorite cookies whether I’m lactating or not. I’m not sure if there is evidence-based data to support the idea that these cookies will produce more milk. What I do know is that there are some different galactagogues (substance that produces lactation) in these cookies that include oats and brewer’s yeast. I also know that if you aren’t lactating and you want to eat/make these delicious cookies, you won’t instantaneously be able to breastfeed 4 children. My husband has had a few and nothing ever happened to him 😉 When I first made these cookies, I was about 2 months postpartum. I baked the whole batch and the cookies were gone in about 3 days. Maybe 2. I thought “There has got to be a way for me to have some self-control with these cookies,” so I decided to freeze the dough. It’s nice to be able to make myself 1 or 2 cookies at a time instead of 48, it considerably decreases the temptation. Do they really work? Who knows, but they are amazing! I make a batch about once every other month and I’m still breastfeeding my son who is now 12.5 months old.
Freezable Lactation Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons flaxseed meal
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups oats
- 1 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 4 tablespoons brewers yeast
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Mix the flaxseed meal and water and let sit for 3-5 minutes.
- Beat butter, sugar, and brown sugar well.
- Add eggs and mix well.
- Add flaxseed mix and vanilla, beat well.
- Sift together flour, brewers yeast, baking soda, and salt.
- Add dry ingredients to butter mix.
- Stir in oats, nuts, and chips.
- ***Scoop onto baking sheet.
- Bake for 9-12 minutes.
- Transfer cookies to cooling rack and let sit for a few minutes.
**To freeze:
- Scoop tablespoon size of uncooked dough onto tupperware. Layer entire bottom of tupperware.
- Top with wax paper
- Repeat layering process until you have filled tupperware.
- To bake, start from step #9 of above directions.
Enjoy!
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