Lactation Cookies Recipe - Increasing Milk Supply for Breastfeeding

These cookies taste super yummy and work wonders! I stopped nursing a few years ago, but was contacted with a request for the recipe I used to use!


Lactation Cookies

• 1 Cup Butter
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 1 Cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 4 tbsp. water
• 2tbsp. flax seed meal
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1tsp salt
• 3 cups oats (steel cut old fashioned style, not quick cook)
• 1 cup chocolate chips (Ive also used butterscotch and peanut butter!)
• 2-4 tbsp Nutritional Brewers Yeast

1.  Preheat Oven to 350.
2. Mix flax seed meal and 2 tbsp water, let sit for 3-5 minutes
3. Beat butter, sugar and brown sugar well.
4. Add eggs & mix
5. Add flax seed/water mix and vanilla, mix.
6. Sift together flour, yeast, baking soda and salt
7. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture
8. stir in oats and chocolate chips
9. scoop into spoon fulls onto an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes. 
10. Let cool before removing!