Thursday, August 26, 2010

Major Milk Makin' Lactation Cookies

Recipe and photos © Kathleen Major



*For information on lactation cookies and milk supply, please read this article first.*


Major Milk Makin' Cookies
recipe by Kathleen Major

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c. whole wheat flour
1 3/4 c. oats
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3/4 c. almond butter or peanut butter
1/2 c. butter, softened
1 c. flax
3 T brewer's yeast
1/3 c. water
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs
2 c. (12oz) chocolate chips
1 c. chopped nuts of your choice

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit


Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a bowl.

In a large bowl, beat almond butter, butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, brewer's yeast, flax and water until creamy.

looks a little gross, doesn't it?
but oh, so good ;)

Mix in eggs.

Gradually beat in flour mixture.


Mix in nuts and chocolate chips.


Add oats slowly, mixing along the way.


Place balls of dough onto greased baking sheets or baking stones.

Press down each ball lightly with a fork.

Bake 12 minutes.

Allow to cool.

Enjoy!

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33 comments:

  1. YUMMMM!! I made these with sugar in the raw, and I'd like to sub the brown sugar for something healthier. Suggestions? Does maple syrup work?
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  2. i made these and my DH loooves them... i use lots of flax seed meal, oats and brewer's yeast....he calls them poop-cookies!! loads of extra fiber!
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  3. They look great. When I make these types of chunky, rustic cookie I leave out most (or all) of the sugar and just sprinkle a few grains of raw sugar ("coffee sugar" the really big granuals) over the top before baking. It gives a lovely crunchy texture and the sweetness goes further, so you can get away with only using a tiny amount.
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  4. instead of sugar if you could use syrup made with fenugreek it would increase supply too!
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  5. where can you get syrup made with fenugreek? I would think you could use molasses too and it's high in iron. you probably wouldn't need as much as you would sugar. maybe cut the amount to 1/2 or a 1/4 of what the recipe calls for sugar.
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  6. apple sauce...
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  7. Cate - all brown sugar is is white sugar with molasses added. Just mix a little unsulphured molasses with your sugar to get the consistency of brown sugar. :)

    I made these with oats and flour soaked in buttermilk. I added some coconut, cinnamon and cloves. I went over board with the cloves. I used silvered almonds instead of walnuts. They are yummy!! I am hoping have all the ingredients to try this recipe the way it was posted next time :)
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  8. some generic maple syrup is made with fenugreek. just read the label, they say something like, water, sugar, fenugreek, and dyes.
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  10. Stevia powder for sweetness
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  11. I would try Rapadura or Sucanut. Rapadura is sugar before its completely adulterated -- basically dehydrated cane juice. There is such a thing as palm sugar but I haven't tried it but its supposed to be quite good for you too.
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  12. Thank you for inventing this recipe! I can't wait to try it! They look amazing. Yum!
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  13. I loved these cookies!!! I made them a couple of weeks ago and when I finished eating that batch I tried another recipe I found online - these were definitely my favourite. And hubby agrees too.
    I'm pretty sure that they helped to boost my supply (mind you, I did it a lot of them!!!), so will be making another batch of them this weekend.
    Did find that the extra fibre turned myself and bubba into farty-bums, lol.
    Will use this as my basic recipe, but excited to try adding other things to it.
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  14. I was wondering aprox how many cookies does one batch make? I need to figure the nutritional info for my husband before I can make them. They sound fantastic! The added bonus would be more milk for me (well for the little boob man).
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  15. Since it has almonds, I'd like to add, that if your child has eczema or if your family has a history of eczema/asthma/food allergies, then staying away from nuts like almond until the baby's immune system is stronger, is a good idea. THis'...s the consensus immunologists seem to be coming to. If there's a high risk for food allergies, then avoid the most common allergenic foods for the 1st 3 years of the baby's life, so the immune system has a chance to mature first. The common allergens most important to avoid are egg, peanut, treenuts,
    shell fish...For details, look at www.foodallergy.org

    So, in my opinion, almond butter in this recipe is not a great idea for a breastfeeding mother. The almond protein will make it into the milk, and challenge the baby's immune system and the baby could possibly become permanently allergic to it. I am talking about high risk babies here, such as ones with eczema (which's about a 3rd of babies nowadays). --Deepa
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  16. Brown sugar can be unrefined sugar (read the label and check for unrefined). All brown sugar is not white with molasses added. Sugar, honey, maple, etc are all sugars. There is no one 'healthier', except if they are heavily refined. Anything unrefined in moderation is fine for most folk. Mashed banana would work well, or grated apple, or some pureed raisins.
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  17. Dorothy ~ it depends on the size you are making the dough balls, but when we made them for these photos (you can see the size they are above in relation to my son's hand, and on the tray) we had 32 cookies total.
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  18. RE: eczema (I believe there is much to be learned, and a great deal the general population does not know about, and that nursing mothers are not easily able to access reliable information to).

    The #1 culprit for baby/child eczema is cow's milk, or cow's milk products (including formula or mother's milk when she consumes cow's milk). Very often we see eczema disappear when cow's milk is removed from the diet (when babies are consuming human milk and cow's milk is not in the diet of a nursing mother).

    Typically, cow's milk can be comfortably added back into the nursing mother's diet (if a mother desires it) after the baby's gut has closed around the 8th month.

    This recipe calls for 3/4 c. peanut or almond *butter* which is unlikely to impact a nursing baby when baked into cookies in this small among and baby is exclusively breastfeeding or over the age of 8 months.

    Nuts are an irritant in some nursing babies' diet (i.e. in formula produced from soy nuts, or through mother's milk when she consumes nuts/soy) so if this is the case - if baby is young (7 months or less), you can leave the 1 c. chopped nuts of your choice out completely or switch them for seeds (sunflower seeds for example), if you find it increases gassiness or irritation for baby.

    Again, 1 c. chopped nuts baked and dispersed into 32 cookies eaten over the course of many days is highly unlikely to cause issues in a breastfeeding baby. The problems with nuts come more often when mother is eating nuts by the handful on a daily basis (and even then, it is for SOME - not all - babies) or when baby consumes a nut-based formula (most formulas are made from either cow's milk or soy).

    The research suggesting nuts consumed while mother is pregnant or nursing leads to latter allergens is inconclusive, there is just as much valid research that demonstrates the opposite, and I have yet to be convinced that it isn't rather something else that brings rise to these allergies/eczema: The first being non-breastmilk items started too soon (before the 8th month when the gut has closed); supplementation with cow's milk/soy formulas; or cow's milk in a baby's diet at all (even post 12-months).

    That being said, if you know your family has a history of eczema/allergies/asthma, it would be helpful to do an elimination diet to rule out which items are causing these issues for YOU (starting with cow's milk, wheat, nuts) and going from there.

    For baby, I'd plan for certain to *exclusively* provide human milk for at least the first 8 months of life (without cow's milk in mother's diet), to adhere to "baby-led weaning" (baby led starting of solids - no spoon feeding *mush*), and continue non-exclusive nursing for a normal duration of time (several years) without adding in cow's milk to the diet (and possibly wheat or nuts depending on what your own elimination diet found) until you see that your baby does not suffer from the same.

    An excellent book, written for the general population (i.e. not a scholarly journal, but one which synthesizes a lot of the research on this subject for breastfeeding moms/new babies), is "The Baby Bond":

    http://astore.amazon.com/peacefparent-20/detail/1402226578

    Highly recommended.
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  19. I hope you don't mind, but I made these cookies, and detailed it on my blog. They were worth it in my opinion! Thank you!

    http://uniqueandnormal.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-aint-your-average-milk-cookies.html
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  21. I made a batch of these last night and ended up with around 45 cookies and a bunch of chocolate chips left over in the mixing bowl lol. They're delicious and honestly seemed to work almost instantly for me. Even my husband thought they were good. I'm taking some to my sister who is also nursing and am going to pass along the recipe ^_^ Thanks for sharing!
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  22. I got the link to your receipe from Uniquely Normal Mom.. So thank you to both of you! I made them last night and they are really good! I used white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts, super yummy and seems to have helped.. Thanks so much for posting and thanks to UNM for re-posting.. = ) (made about 28 - 2 1/2in cookies)
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  23. Looks like a great recipe. I just wanted to ask: is the yeast a *must* in the mix? or can I leave that out?
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  24. just wanted to thank you for posting this recipe! i've been making the cookies and munching on 2-3 per day (2.5inch diam). I couldn't get the brewers yeast so i omitted that and swapped dark agave for the sugar and no nuts but i have to tell you - i am *busting* at the seams. The flax and the oatmeal works like a charm!
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  25. Try coconut palm sugar instead of the brown sugar. It has a low-glycemic index & tastes very much like brown sugar. :-)
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  26. Maple Syrup

    Fenugreek is commonly used in artificial maple syrup for its color and taste. It surprisingly has a very similar taste to that of maple syrup. Many major artificial maple syrup manufactures use fenugreek because it is very affordable and tasty when mixed with the appropriate amount of sugar. The color it creates is yellowish-brown, so it is perfect for making imitation maple syrup.


    Read more: Uses for Fenugreek | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_5384895_uses-fenugreek.html#ixzz1TuZUJC5H
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  27. brewer's yeast - is that the same yeast as used to make beer?
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  28. My sister made me a batch of these vegan-style because my baby is allergic to milk protein. I thought they wouldn't taste quite right but they were still delicious! She added raisons and vegan chocolate.
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  29. Thanks for the recipe, i made some the other night. But they gave me Horrible gas pains. :(
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  30. is it possible to use Nutella in place of the almond/peanut butter?
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  31. I made this for our Mommy Meet Up!!! It was a hit! Thank you very very much for sharing this.
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  32. @Anonymous Jan 10, 2012 12:31 PM - Almond butter is the best choice because it contains lots of good, naturally-occurring calcium. Peanut butter or Nutella would basically be a substitution for taste purposes only. Also, consider the fact that, besides a small amount of caffeine, chocolate also contains theobromine, which can act like caffeine in both the mother's and baby's systems. Some moms and babes are more sensitive to stimulants like this than others, so you might want to find out the individual tolerances of the people for whom you're cooking.
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  33. I made these today...we'll see if they work! They make a ton--if I freeze them, will they still 'work' or will they not be as effective?!
    Thanks!
    Kelsey
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