The Best Lactation Cookies EVER!
Need a little boost with your nursing journey? Try these delicious lactation cookies!
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 2 Sticks of Butter (Softened)
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Cups Flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 2 tbsp Flax Seed
- 4 tbsp Water
- 4 tbsp Brewers Yeast (Whole Foods Sells this)
- 3 Cups Old Fashioned Oats (Quick Oats are fine too)
- 1 Cup Chocolate Chips (Or Chunks, or Peanut Butter Chips - whatever you like)
- 1 tsp Vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat Oven 350
- Combine water and flaxseed and let sit for 5 mins
- Sift flour, salt, baking soda & brewers yeast
- Add butter & sugar into a stand mixer and beat until smooth.
- Add eggs to the mixer and beat to combine
- Add vanilla and flaxseed mixture
- Add flour mixture
- Fold in oatmeal and chocolate chips
- Use ice cream scoop onto parchment-lined cookie sheets.
- Bake 12-16 mins.
Notes
Side note - the $1 Store sells pre-cut parchment paper 10 for $1. They are perfect. One of my top 10 items to have! Buy 3 at a time! Just do it. Trust me.
Now I will say – those are pretty good-sized cookies, about 1/4 cup scoop. You could certainly go down to a cookie sided scoop or even use 2 spoons and make bigger ones. When I bake them, I do a half batch and bake for 13 mins on parchment. If I am thinking ahead, I’ll sit my eggs and butter out the night before too. It seems to give it a chewier cookie.
Now for my friends who are not breastfeeding, feel free to omit the yeast. It will still make a delicious cookie that everyone will enjoy! Who doesn’t love oats and chocolate chips?
The great news is I got a text message yesterday saying the cookies were helping! It makes me so happy to hear that! Breastfeeding is hard work and anything to make it easier I am game for!
My milk never fully came in with my first baby. This time around, I might just make a batch of these to eat at the hospital!
These were a lifesaver for me! I really needed these to support my milk supply! I still enjoy them when making them for new mom friends. My motto, eat early and often!
Do you need the parchment paper
You don't need to, it just makes life so much easier for clean up and baking in general.
I don't have my little one just yet but I want to get a head start on how to have a good supply of milk. I was unsuccessful providing enough breast milk for my first child. I want to be ready this time. Will lactaction cookies be beneficial for my supply if I start eating them now or do they seen effective after childbirth only? If they are only effective after my milk drops, then do the cookies work pretty quickly or do I need to eat them and see results over time?
I ate them every day for the year I breast fed my daughter. I made them large enough that one cookie would be my breakfast with a cup of coffee and lots of water. The combo of hydration and the brewers yeast helped me. I'm not sure taking it beforehand would do much help.
How would I make these without the yeast?
Just omit it from the recipe. It just makes a tasty Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie.
Will they still have the same effect and help with my supply
Brewers Yeast and Oatmeal combo is what really helps. I would suggest getting the Brewers Yeast. You can find it at any health food store or Whole Foods.
thank you!
Can you substitute coconut oil for the butter and raisins for the chocolate and still have a good effect on lactation? I need to make them dairy free ��
I would imagine you could. The oats and Brewers yeast is what helps with lactation. I've not baked with coconut oil, so I'm not sure how it would do baking.
I just made them, they are a bit flat but delicious!! We will see about how they help my supply! I'm feeding my 10 week old and pumping to build a stash for my nephew arriving in a few weeks since my sister can't BF, so I'm hoping these will help me make enough milk for both kids 🙂
I would like to make a batch for a gift. What ingredients do I put in the jar and in what order.
I would put everything in except for the eggs, butter and maybe flax…since you have to mix it with a little water.
Do you use flaxseed or ground form in the recipe?