Lactation Boosting Cookies

**cheezelkat** · 11-07-2006 23:01

These cookies are so yummy...and I've found they helped boost my own supply. I make them with the baking M&m's - yummy! Careful who eats them, or your partner may start lactating..lol!

Housepoet's Famous Lactation Boosting Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip & Flaxseed cookies

Housepoet's Famous Lactation Boosting Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip & Flaxseed cookies �
Ingredients :

* 1 cup butter or marg
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 cup brown sugar
* 4 tablespoons water
* 2 tablespoons flaxseed meal*
* 2 large eggs
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 2 cups flour
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 3 cups oats, thick cut if you can get them
* 1 cup or more chocolate chips
* 2 tablespoons of brewers yeast* (be generous)

Directions:

Preheat oven at 375 degrees F. Mix together 2 tablespoons of flaxseed meal and water, set aside for 3-5 minutes. Cream (beat well) margarine and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, mix well. Stir flaxseed mixture and add with vanilla to the margarine mix. Beat until blended. Sift together dry ingredients, except oats and chips. Add to margarine mixture. Stir in oats then chips. Scoop or drop onto baking sheet, preferably lined with parchment or silpat. The dough is a little crumbly, so it helps to use a scoop.

Bake 8-12 minutes, depending on size of cookies.

Serves: 6 dozen cookies

Preparation time: 15 minutes

*can be found at any local health food store.
*NOTE* IT MUST BE BREWERS YEAST, NO SUBSTITUTIONS.

I made these for a friend who's having supply issues and they were so flippin' good. You can feel yourself lactating as you nibble on them.

If you don't like chocolate, who doesn't like chocolate tho, you can substitute for carob chips, raisins, butterscotch chips, whatever.

Reprinted with permission

Noel Pickett
noel@breastfeedingisnormal.org
http://breastfeedingisnormal.org

Originally Posted by misskelz77

OK girls i have made Lactation CUPCAKES.....

1 PACKET CHOC CAKE MIX ( i used the homebrand ones to test this)
2 tablespoons flaxseed meal (soaked in 3 tablespoons of water
2 tablesppons brewers yeast ( i did giant tablespoons so probably closer to 3 if mesured)

mix as per packet directions....

when finished add 1 cup oatmeal and stir through till combined, spoon into patty pans
bake for 10-15 min at temp stated on cake mix pack.....

Apply icing when cool,,,

Mine didnt even get to cool, i ate them hot out of the oven, i just sprinkled icing sugar on them and they where SUPER,,bout to make another batch!!!

Originally Posted by grass is always greener

Just spoke with a friend of mine who said that you can easily make them vegan, just use soy butter and either no egg or mashed banana or apple puree as the egg substitute. Just made another batch!

Originally Posted by janiceg

breastfeeding muesli

1/2 cup honey
4-5 tbsp oil (sunflower or whatever you got)
3 cups oats (quick cooking)
1 cup almonds
1 cup cashews
1 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup pumpkin seeds
1 cup coconut
1 cup flax meal
1 cup raisins
1 cup dried cranberries
5-6 tbsp flax oil
2 tbsp brewers yeast

preheat oven to 180 fan forced .
heat honey and oil in pot over low heat (just to warm it so it's easier to mix).
mix oats, nuts, seeds, flax meal and coconut in a large bowl.
add honey and oil to oat mixture and mix well.
spread evenly on a baking tray and toast slightly! be careful not to let it burn!
return to large bowl add raisins, cranberries, flax oil and yeast.
store in airtight container in the fridge.

*you can add or change what nuts/seeds/fruit you like or have on hand (i also add 1 cup rice bubbles)*

**the_queen** · 11-07-2006 23:03

Friday is baking day so I will be whipping me up a batch of these!!

Hang on - brewer's yeast... I have regular old yeast for baking bread, that's not good enough? Or could I use double the quantity of regular yeast?

**cheezelkat** · 11-07-2006 23:05

I used the beer making yeast.

I think you can get brewers yeast from a health food store as well!

I think regular yeast would give you bread-cookies, lol

**the_queen** · 11-07-2006 23:08

Oh

yes I think you're probably right....
Off to the health food store tomorrow then!!

**Areca** · 12-07-2006 08:13

I love these cookies! So yummy and thanks to them I have a freezer full of ebm.
The batch makes a lot of cookies so I just freeze what I don't bake!

**Jinglebells** · 12-07-2006 12:38

where did you find this recipe??? they sound yummy, will be making them when I have this baby

**1stbaby** · 12-07-2006 16:12

It must be the brewers yeast because I have another recipe for improving milk.
I can't remember the quantities but it is a milk drink of the following
milk
banana
brewers yeast
complan

Mix it all up in a milk shake and drink whenever you can. Its supposed to improve the quality of the milk. I haven't tried it but I will let you know what effect it has.

**cheezelkat** · 12-07-2006 16:45

Oats, flaxseed and brewers yeast all do amazing things to your milk supply. I eat a big bowl of oats everyday, with flaxseed sprinkled on top. Make sure its flaxseed meal though otherwise it will pass straight through you

**Seekrit** · 17-07-2006 19:24

I went out and bought all these ingredients today

So I plan on using them... soon... I was wondering someone said the dough was freezable, are the cookies themselves freezable, or how long do they last in the fridge/in a container?

Thanks