So I recently put a post up on my facebook page about some lactation cookies I had made. I ended up getting more emails and private messages than I knew what to do with. So I decided to get this recipe up fast so that everyone would be able to make them!
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Lactation Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 c flour
- 1 1/2 c oats can be quick oats
- 1 tbsp. ground flaxseed
- 2 tsp. Brewers yeast
- 1 1/2 c sugar
- 3/4 c shortening
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp. cocoa
- 1/2 tsp. all spice
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 10 oz bag Dairy Free mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 (I baked at 325 in convection oven)
- In medium bowl sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, all spice and cocoa.
- In stand mixer on medium speed, add shortening, sugar and vanilla. Add in eggs one at a time. Mix on medium high for 1-2 minutes to ensure well combined.
- Turn mixer to lowest setting in slowly add in flour mixture. Mix until just combined.
- Remove bowl from mixer and add in oats, mini chocolate chips, yeast and flaxseed. Mix by hand.
- These cookies work best when on silpat or parchment paper on your baking sheet. I made each cookie roughly a tablespoon and placed about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 7-9 minutes and then cool on cooling rack. Keep a close eye on these cookies and remove when edges are just barely browned. The center may appear slightly "wet" and that is ok. Cookie will continue to bake after it is removed from oven.
Did you make this recipe?
Thank you for making my recipe! You took pictures, right? Well go ahead and post them on Instagram! Be sure to mention me @iambaker and use the hashtag #YouAreBaker.
What is a lactation cookie exactly? It a cookie that has a few key ingredients that promote lactation, or increase a nursing mom’s milk supply.
For instance, in this cookie I have included oats. Researchers have long since known that oatmeal has properties in it that help to lower cholesterol and maintain a healthy blood pressure. Oats also provide plenty of iron as well as an abundance of healthy vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. New moms definitely need all that!
These delicious cookies also contain Brewers yeast, ground flaxseed and dairy free mini chocolate chips. The yeast and flaxseed are classic components to a Lactation cookie, but I wanted to take it one step further. I decided to use all shortening instead of butter and the dairy free chocolate in my recipe to ensure it was dairy free.
I know when I was nursing Eddie I experimented with a dairy free diet in the hopes it would help with his colic. To have been able to enjoy a scrumptious chocolate chip cookie during that time would have been such a treat!
These cookies do contain cinnamon and all spice and you may certainly omit them if you have a sensitivity.
In the research I did, it wasn’t recommended to use a cinnamon supplement while breastfeeding or consume more than 1 tsp per day. (In very small doses cinnamon can actually be beneficial.)
These cookies have a crispy crunchy exterior and a chewy center. I loved the juxtaposition!
Here is the nitty gritty. New moms need all the blessings they can get. To be able to make cookies for a nursing mom that not only help her but taste good? AND it’s recommended to eat about 4 a day.
I can’t think of a better prescription!
***These cookies are delicious and can be eaten by anyone.
Dang, these look fabulous!! Awesome recipe.
Thanks beautiful!
Aww wish I had had this recipe when I was dairy free and breastfeeding my daughter. I had supply issues when I came back to work so I had to modify a recipe I found to make it dairy free. The cookies always tasted good but the texture was all wrong. I cant WAIT to try this recipe next time around!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These are fabulous, Amanda!! I would have loved to have some of these around way back when!! 😉
Yummy! I will be trying this in about 7 months! 🙂
Sounds great minus the shortening. Could I substitute coconut oil instead?
I dont believe coconut oil and shortening are an equal substitute. But since I have never tried to use coconut oil is these cookies I cannot say for certain.
I had the same idea as Anne! I have made cookies with coconut oil before and if you use the virgin stuff, it gives a lovely coconut flavor to the cookies! These cookies are great -thanks for the recipe!
You can use palm kernel shortening or earth balance as a butter or shortening substitute. 🙂
@Anne, how about substituting the vegetable shortening for palm shortening? I recently bought some, but haven’t used it yet. Check out this website for more info on this shortening: http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/organic_palm_shortening.htm
LOL your readers are coming up with the same ideas as me! I just bought a big tub of it and that’s probably what I’m going to try in this recipe since regular shortening is trans fats.
I love this idea, Amanda! Pinned!
wow! Super like! I assumed special ‘lactation’ food a part of Indian culture. I’m glad to know that lactation food is crucial elsewhere as well. Indian lactation food typically has nuts, coconut, clarified butter and dry ginger powder among many ingredients.
wow that’s cool. I didn’t know coconut and dry ginger help with lactation!
And Amanda, Awesome recipe! I have lots of clients that are always looking for yummy lactation cookies! Thank you for being awesome!
The whole concept of this is beyond disgusting. Is this not a baking blog? Must you subject people who enjoy baking to the perverseness?
How is this perverse? Or disgusting? I’m really curious. It’s just a cookie that contains ingredients that are helpful for women who are breastfeeding. And cookies need to be baked … so … why not post this on a baking blog?
Sigh, i see baking instructions, i believe that makes it a baking blog, how very daare it have a name that actually means it does what it says on the box, lactation cookies and flapjacks are very helpful to many, but seriously wont harm you, i mean my hisband ate mine and he never lactated or complained about their name, perhaps you would prefer if they were called hidden in a back room or under a blanket cookies, so we can pretend there is nothing going on here!
I must be missing something. I see absolute zero perversion. In fact, I see nothing but an extremely kind and helpful post by one of the sweetest bakers on the internet. I must have a very different definition of what’s perverse than you.
I personally love the title 🙂 I don’t have babies but have a lot of friend that do and are nursing so I’ll be passing this onto them!
Seriously, the only disgusting thing here is the behaviour of some people commenting. This really hurts feelings! Whatever the cookies are called, they are gorgeous, simply find a name on your own, like ‘Amanda’s Cookies’.
It’s a COOKIE!!! How in the world is that perverse?!? Are YOU so perverse that you get offended by a freaking baked good? It’s people like you that give me no hope for the human race. Thanks a lot.
I really doubt this was posted by the real Mckmama. She is a baby-wearing, breatfeeding, flaxseed eating momma, and I bet she would love these cookies.
Maybe you need to find out who the true MckMama is because she isn’t what you describe.
Really? Are you an 8-year old boy? What is perverse about breastfeeding a baby? Grow up.
PS. These are cookies. That are baked. Why would they not be shared on a baking blog?
How sad for you and your children that you believe breastfeeding to be a perversion. Frankly, I rather pity your spouse as well.
You should probably consider staying off the Internet and perhaps move to a strictly Muslim country lest you see anything else to offend your Oh-so delicate sensibilities.
Finally, please remember that this is the digital equivalent of Amanda’s kitchen. If you wouldn’t be that rude to her face, in her home, and partaking of her baked goodies then keep your fingers off of your keyboard.
Actually, Muslims have no problem with open breastfeeding and as someone pointed out up thread, there are Indian galactagogues too.
India is a mostly Hindi country and has a completely different attitude toward nudity but that’s not really important. What I was suggesting is that perhaps mckmama needs to go to a hyper conservative place where women are completely hidden from view and not allowed out of their homes without a male relative..
You are the one who is perverted and obviously a moron. There is nothing perverse about promoting healthy lactation to nourish your baby. Grow up.
I’m glad that people can keep an open mind about things out of the box. Blogging is not only about sharing recipes but sharing your life. Props to you for posting something very beneficial to yourself and other moms.