Lovey Lactation Cookie recipe! One of the best parts about breastfeeding is lactation cookies. If done right, theyre packed full of nutritious energy, galactagogue (milk-promoting) benefits, and a serious YUM factor. If something is going to help you out with the enriching but sometimes challenging art of breastfeeding, may it be cookies!! Last night, I made a batch to freeze for when my little man arrives. (I also had heard tales of moms baking these and POOF! their baby came, but here I am this morning, ha.) I got a good starter recipe from the GW midwives in DC, but they never come out quite right for me, so I made some adjustments. I’m a gluten free/low sugar fan, but you can vary the type of flour and sugar as you prefer. If you don’t like nut butters and/or coconut oil, you can use aaalllll butter (2 cups/sticks). ENJOY! Dry ingredients 2 cups almond meal/flour 1 cup oats (gluten free work well too) ½ cup ground flax meal ½ cup nutritional yeast (not baker’s yeast, but the yellow flakes) 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt ½ cup shredded coconut 1 ½ cup dark chocolate chips 1 cup chopped walnuts ¼ cup raw coconut sugar Wet ingredients 1 ½ cup (sticks) butter, melted ½ cup almond butter (I like to use crunchy and salted!) ¼ cup coconut oil, melted 2 large eggs Preheat the oven to 350. Prepare 2 cookie sheets by spraying with coconut oil or spreading butter on sheet. Mix all dry ingredients together in big mixing bowl with a spoon. Mix wet ingredients together in small bowl. Pour wet into dry ingredients and mix with hand mixer. The mix will be clumpy, just make sure it’s all thoroughly mixed and no part is dry. With your hands, ball the mix out onto the baking sheets into whatever size you’d like, I like ‘em fairly big. You’ll be hungry! Pop the cookies into the oven for 15-20 minutes, checking them and pulling them out when they’re a bit golden. Let them cool before you put them into a container. These can also be frozen if you make them ahead of time and want to save them for the big day! Makes 20-ish lumpy, imperfect, delicious fairly big cookies. As you can see in the photo, my daughter was trying to get her paws on em and my husband didnt go to sleep without giving one a whirl either. So if I can keep them away, Ill enjoy my cookies soon enough. :) As the midwives say, you MUST eat several a day! Nourish yourself and enjoy this amazing time.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:25:17 +0000
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