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The Best Lactation Cookies (for nursing mamas!)
These are the very best Lactation Cookies to help boost breastmilk supply in nursing moms and they taste GREAT!
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoon (24g) flaxseed meal (ground flaxseed)
- 6 tablespoon (90ml) water
- ⅓ cup (70g) coconut oil, melted and cooled
- ⅔ cup (145g) packed dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon (5ml) pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup (100g) ground oats (pulse rolled oats in a food processor, see blog post for details)
- ½ cup (50g) almond flour or ground blanched almonds
- ½ cup (71g) all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoon (25g) nutritional yeast
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice or cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (5oz) (142g) dark chocolate chunks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Combine flaxseed meal and water in a small bowl and let sit for 10 minutes to thicken while you prepare all of the other ingredients.
- Combine coconut oil, brown sugar and vanilla in a large bowl, then whisk in thickened flaxseed mixture until smooth and well combined.
- Whisk together ground oats, almond meal, flour, nutritional yeast, spice, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl and add it to the we mixture. Fold it in until just combined, then fold in chocolate chips. If the dough is a bit sticky, place it in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- Scoop up heaped tablespoons of cookie dough and roll into balls. Place onto prepared baking sheets spacing them about 2 inches apart. Flatten slightly and bake for 12-15 minutes until golden brown around the edges. Let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
