Lactation Cookies, HEABified
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Ingredients
Yield: 2 dozen cookies
- 2 cups toasted rolled oats (toast in 350° oven on a foil lined baking sheet 5 – 10 minutes)
- 2 sticks pastured butter, softened
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 2 TBSP flax seed meal
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 TBSP Brewers Yeast
- 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut. (can sub slivered almonds or other chopped nuts)
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips or raisins
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
Directions
- Combine flax seed with water and set aside, allowing to gel for about 10 minutes.
- In large bowl, combine all ingredients including flax seed gel, and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- Pre-heat oven to 325º
- Remove cookie dough from fridge and roll into bite sized balls.
- Place on foil lined baking sheets and bake for 9 to 11 minutes.
- Cookies will come out of the oven looking like this…
- Allow cookies to cool for about 5 minutes. Then reshape into balls and place on cooling racks in the fridge or freezer.
- Once cooled, place on plate, and make them look pretty before presenting to new mom.
- To keep husbands out of cookies, warn them they will lactate if even one cookie is consumed.
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Love the name of these! And the last instruction cracked me up. My boyfriend loves telling about a time some girl in his class offered him a Luna Bar and he said no because he didn’t want to grow breasts (he thinks he’s very funny). Hey, if it works…I should try that with the ezekiel english muffins that always go disappearing! He’s scary-smart, but if I told him sprouted grains will induce lactation, he just might think twice…
Jess, that is hilarious. CD kept asking me if he would start producing milk if he ate the cookies. My warnings didn’t seem to stop him. Perhaps you’ll have better luck with your English muffins.
I really should make these…
Yes, yes you should.
Too good not to tweet all about it… <3
FitChick,
Thank you!
These sound fabulous! And as a nursing mama, I can use all the energy and support I can get, so I will most definitely be baking these up soon. I can’t wait until it cools off a little bit so I can run the oven.
I was planning on making lactation cookies this afternoon for a new mom friend, but now I’m going to try out your version instead- thanks!
I wonder if the dough will freeze well and I can use it in September when my little one arrives?
Brittany,
I hope your friend enjoys the cookies – CD and I both loved the recipe. I’m sure the dough would freeze well, but I’m not sure how long it will stay good – I would think as long as any other cookie dough. Enjoy, and I hope you’re feeling well. September will be here before you know it!
wow this sounds so delicious and decadent~do you think we can reduce the butter and would still taste pretty good?
Ellie,
The butter makes the cookies so rich and delicious, but I’m sure you could use less or just make my regular Oaties with nut butter instead: http://heathereatsalmondbutter.com/recipes/maple-nut-oaties/. Enjoy!
Love the updated “lactation version”; coincidentally, I have tons of brewers yeast on hand, so these would be perfect to make
I also have tons of coconut oil on hand and no butter– how much would I sup, half a cup?
Emilia,
I would sub at a 1:1 ratio and use 1 cup of coconut oil.
Thanks Heather! I am officially addicted to these lactaction cookies. I’m still breastfeeding so I use it as my excuse to my husband why I’m constantly making them. Great recipe!
Holly, so happy to hear it. I make them for everyone now, lactating or not. They’re our new favorite!
Heather, this is an amaaaaaazing recipe (I currently make it without the brewer’s yeast) !!! So good! I made the delicous mistake of throwing the chocolate chunks into a batter with freshly toasted oats and freshly toasted coconut .. big chocolate mess. And in my first batch I didn’t use enough liquids so the batter didn’t really stick. So I used it as a crumble topping for fruit crumbles and oatmeal and ate it plain as a snack. SO GOOD!!
Thank you!
Hi Marie-Sophie!
I’m so glad you enjoyed your cookie crumble. Sounds pretty yummy to me, chocolate mess and all. Delicious mistakes are the best kind to make.
Wow! These are delicious! This is my second type of lactation cookies! They are sooooo yummy! I love that there is no added sugar or flour in them! I ended up accidently leaving batter over night and the dough was very stiff but was easy to roll, so I didn’t have to re-roll them after they cooked. I also used coconut oil instead of butter, and added 1 cup of dried cherry cranberries. Wowee! My entire family can’t stop eating them! Thank you!!!
I forgot to mention I also added 8 capsules of fenugreek and 8 of blessed thistle. I disolved them first in a little bit of hot water. This is also so to help with milk production so I thought I would try!
So glad you (& the fam!) enjoyed the cookies Natasha and great idea to add fenugreek and blessed thistle. When I was breastfeeding, I always smelled like maple syrup from all the fenugreek I took. Not a bad thing in my opinion.
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