Recipe: Lactation Cookies

As if I really need another excuse to eat cookies:) These cookies have several ingredients in them to help up the production of breastmilk including the old favorite Oatmeal, as well as Brewers yeast and Flaxseed meal. I originally found the recipe on epicurious and lucky me they recommend 4 cookies a day... Just what the Doctor ordered!!! They're also just generally yummy for those of you not worrying about boosting your milk supply:) Try using white chocolate bits, raisins or other dried fruits or butterscotch bits.... YUUMMMMM!!!

Ingredients:

Butter: 1 Cup

White Sugar: 1 Cup

Brown Sugar: 1 Cup

Water: 4 TBSP

Flaxseed Meal:2 TBSP (info on Flaxseed here http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/products/p/prodflax.htm)

Eggs: 2 Large

Vanilla: 1-2 Tsp

Flour: 2 Cups

Baking Soda: 1 Tsp

Salt: 1 Tsp

Old Fashioned Oatmeal (NOT quick oats): 3 Cups

Chocolate Chips: 1-1.5 Cups (Can also sub Dried fruit such as apricots dates or raisins, white Chocolate Chips, or Butterscotch Chips, or a combo of a few things.. YAY!!)

Brewers Yeast: 2 TBSP

Also Need:

Large Mixing Bowl

Hand Mixer

Measuring Cup and Spoons

Baking Sheet

Tin Foil

To Prepare:

Preheat Oven to 375

Mix Flaxseed meal and Water and set aside. Cream Butter and Sugar together with the hand mixer until thoroughly mixed. Add eggs and mix. Using a Spoon, stir in Flaxseed/water mixture and Vanilla. Beat with Hand mixer until well blended. Add in Flour, salt, baking soda and Brewer's yeast and mix. Using a spoon, stir in Oats and yumminess of your choice (Chocolate chips, dried fruit etc). With a teaspoon, drop balls of dough onto tin foil a few inches apart. Bake 8-12 minutes

Happy Lactating!!! :)