Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies by Noel Trujillo
photo by Jonathan Melendez 
- Ready In:
- 27mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
- dozen
- Serves:
- 54
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons flax seed meal
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups oats
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 2 -4 tablespoons brewer's yeast
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Mix the flaxseed meal and water and let sit for 3-5 minutes.
- Beat butter, sugar, and brown sugar well.
- Add eggs and mix well.
- Add flaxseed mix and vanilla, beat well.
- Sift together flour, brewers yeast, baking soda, and salt.
- Add dry ingredients to butter mix.
- Stir in oats and chips.
- Scoop onto baking sheet.
- Bake for 12 minutes.
- Let set for a couple minutes then remove from tray.
Questions & Replies
- how many should be eaten a day?
- Is there a substitute for flaxseed meal? I can’t seem to find it at the shops.
- Can anyone recommend how many to eat a day?
- Can you use quick oats or do I need to make a store run for steel cut or rolled oats?
- My cookies came out flat they are tasty but flat please help what did I do wrong??
Reviews
- These taste pretty good and do boost your milk supply, but it's not the healthiest recipe. I'm a doula and I make some variation of these for all of my moms. I follow the basic recipe, but I always use scant cups of sugars, 4 heaping T. of Brewer's yeast (this is the most crucial ingredient), 2-4T. Blackstrap molasses, half whole wheat flour and half whole wheat pastry flour or oat flour. Depending on what I have on hand and my mom's taste and needs, I usually add walnuts, almonds, cashews, macadamia nuts, pumpkin seeds, dried fruit, hemp seeds, carob, almond butter, spirulina, sesame seeds or any combination of the above. I also add ginger if a mom has slow letdown, but only if she didn't have significant blood loss after the birth since ginger is a natural blood thinner. If it's been a few weeks since she gave birth and her bleeding has stopped, ginger is fine. I have added fenugreek to the recipe as well, but only if the mom is having serious supply issues. Otherwise, I recommend fenugreek tea since it's milder and easier to control the amount you consume. I've even made them vegan by using Ener-G and vegan margarine and shortening. I think it's a good base recipe and it adapts well. Every version I've ever made has been tasty.
- Why on earth does everyone insist upon complaining/altering this recipe?! It's delicious as/is. I LOVE it.
- I make these for my wife, and she likes them a lot... I make one alteration: Only use 2 T of water instead of 4. The cookies won't spread out or fall apart, and hold their shape much better than if you use 4.
- Ok first off, thanks so much for the awesome recipe. I have made this a few times now and after a little bit of tweaking and trial and error, I've pretty much got the hang of this recipe. The things I tweaked were as follows:<br/><br/>Flax and water: I am generous with my 2Tbs Flax and instead of 4 Tbs of water I did 2.<br/>Brewers Yeast: I am also very generous on my 4Tbs of Brewers Yeast. <br/><br/>The result is a nice fat great looking cookie that tastes awesome and has a bit extra of the main ingredients that help with milk production. On my first attempt I think the extra water made my cookies flat like a pancake, so these tweaks definitely made a difference in that, and now they are plump and attractive, especially for giving as gifts.
- These are great. I have so many problems with my milk supply that I'm pumping constantly (trying to pump while nursing, now that's a trick!). Like many of the other reviewers I was worried about the nutrition content/white sugar & white flour. I found these Lactation Cookies at www.YummyMummyCookies.com which are organic and contain Fenugreek as well as Brewers Yeast. The Lemon Poppyseed Lactation Cookie one is addictive but they're so healthy I feel ok eating them everyday and they REALLY helped me. I started pumping an extra 8oz a day sometimes.
Tweaks
- Added 2 tbsp extra butter, 1 extra egg, 2 extra tbsp flaxseed meal (and increased water to 8 tbsp) and used 6 tbsp brewers yeast instead of 4. I wanted in increase the items which promote breastmilk. I added the extra butter and egg because the batter seemed way too dry without it. They turned out amazing. i have 2 cookies every morning for breakfast, and sometimes have some as snacks throughout the day too!
- I added some slices of raw almonds because almonds help boost milk production as well and it makes it taste pretty good!
- I do coconut oil instead of butter, reduce the brown sugar and sugar both by half a cup, instead of regular flour I do 1 and 1/2 cups of almond flour and 1/2 cup of coconut flour, I do dark chocolate chunks, and increase the brewer's yeast (non bitter) to 8 tablespoons. I also add about 1/4 cup of creamy peanut butter to the wet mixture.
- I refrigerated the cookie dough before baking for about 10 minutes to shape it into more cookie-like shapes and instead of using 1 whole cup of chocolate chips, I used 1/2 and 1/2 chocolate and white chocolate chips. Also, I don't mind the taste of Brewers Yeast (although the bitterness is completely negated through the amount of sugar in this recipe) so I added 5 heaped table spoons instead of 4 level.
- Baking time was way off.
