LACTATION COOKIE RECIPE
These are addictive considering they are a healthy, lactation, ‘brewers yeast’ cookie.
INGREDIENTS
Dry
3 cups rolled oats
1 cup self raising flour (or plain flour)
1 cup dark choc chips (or milk chocolate)
5 tbls brewers yeast
5 tbls shredded coconut
3 tbls flaxseed ground
2 tbls organic stevia
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
pinch salt
Protein
4 scoops vanilla protein mixed with warm water
Wet
80g unsalted butter
5 tbls coconut oil
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
METHOD
1. Chuck all the dry ingredients into a bowl.
2. Add the protein and water to a separate bowl, mix until dissolved and smooth in consistency.
3. Wisk the egg in a separate bowl.
4. Put the butter and coconut oil into a bowl and microwave until runny (20sec).
5. Add the protein mix into the dry mix bowl and mix well.
6. Then without wasting too much time add the egg, vanilla extract, butter and the oil, mix until all ingredients are combined.
7. Pour mixture onto baking paper and roll into a cylinder. Wrap aluminium foil around it and refrigerate for 1hr or more.
8. Slice into 1cm thickness and bake at 180 degC fan-forced for 12 mins for a softer biscuit or if you are like me and love it crunchy then wait 15 mins.
I usually bake 10 cookies to keep me going for the first week and freeze the rest and bake weekly to always have a fresh batch. Nothing beats when the cookie is freshly baked that day. A perfect acquaintance to accompany a creamy latte or tea.
Other helpful ways to increase breast milk supply that I found worked well:
Non alcoholic beer, for all the beer drinkers out there (the brewers yeast being the key factor).
Express your breasts, pump out any leftover milk after every feed (I use the Medela Swing electric double pump).
Massage your breast whilst breast feeding.
Keep hydrated.
Get plenty of rest.
And if all else fails, there's always formula. There isn't anything wrong with formula! Who doesn't want to sleep through the night and get straight back into to their wine rack?!?
