Milk Making Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Get ready for a delicious bakery style cookie treat to help boost supply during those long hours of nursing your new little babe. These cookies are thick, soft, chewy, and packed with flavor and ingredients to keep you milk making! Not to mention the perfect amount of chocolate, which if you are anything like me my chocolate cravings went through the roof after baby came!

Now these are not a solution to your supply. But are a great snack/treat into an already healthy diet to help with increase. I personally really enjoy nursing teas, and tinctures or bullet proof coffee to help with supply on a daily basis. Its important on your breast feeding journey to choose foods that will naturally help with supply and to remember nursing is a supply and demand process.

Ok, so about these milk making cookies… Flax meal has a ton of amazing health benefits, but the one key here is it has phyto estrogens that can influence milk production as well as containing essential fatty acids. Oatmeal has been touted as a healthy addition to a breast feeding mothers diet for increasing supply. And when it comes to eating fats, you want to make sure those fats are doing whats best for your body and also the nutrient factor of you babies. Many new mothers fear fat in there diet after pregnancy which can be detrimental to their supply. When we introduce un-healthy fats to our bodies they are stored that way. How ever Grass Fed butter is considered a healthy fat to add to your diet, I recommend Kerry Gold. I cant do dairy because my babies have all had intolerance’s so I use Earth Balance Vegan Spread, in combination with my favorite MCT coconut oil. Now this isn’t the classic coconut oil fixes everything spiel. Coconut Oil is the only food with the same fatty acid chain that is found in our milk. It is burned in our bodies as energy and not stored as fat, and has actually been known to decrease belly fat when added into a healthy diet. It also helps to up the fat and nutrient content of your milk to make sure baby is getting nice and full. You can read more about that here.

Now what you have all been waiting for… The Recipe! Enjoy Mommas!

Milk Making Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipe by Raihna @word.to.your.moms

Servings

15

servings

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

12

minutes

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Ingredients

• 1 1/3 all-purpose flour

• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda

• 1 tsp cinnamon

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1/2 cup grass-fed butter or Earth Balance Vegan Butter melted and cooled to room temp

• 1/4 cup of un-refined coconut oil melted and cooled to room temp, or I use the liquid Nutiva MCT version.

• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar

• 2 tbs flax meal (ground flax seed)

• 1 tbs honey

• 1 tbs vanilla

• 1 large egg

• 2 1/4 cup Old Fashion Oats

• 1 1/4 cup chocolate chips ( the 1/4 is for topping after baking)

• Optional Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of shredded coconut or coconut chips

• OR 1/2 cup walnuts

Directions

• In a large bowl whisk together flour, cinnamon, flax meal, baking soda, and salt
• In a separate bowl beat together the melted butter and coconut oil with sugars using an electric mixer. Then add in the honey, vanilla, and egg and continue beating until well combined.
• Turn the mixer down to low and add in the flour mixture until almost combined.
• Add in oats and beat on medium speed until combined.
• Then turn off the mixer and stir in or use clean hands to combine 1 cup of the chocolate chips. If you choose to add coconut or walnuts mix those in as well.
• Use an ice cream scoop to form balls of dough by pressing flat into scoop than using the lever to release it. Place on a plate, and flatten the tops slightly. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• When you are ready to bake pre-heat oven to 350f degrees. Line your baking sheets with parchment paper for easy clean up. And place cookies at least 2 inches apart.
• Bake for 12-14 minutes, until the tops of the cookies look set. DO NOT OVER COOK.
• Remove from the oven and dot the tops of the cookies with the remaining 1/4 cup chocolate chips.
• Allow to cool on cookie sheet for at least 10 min before transferring to a wire rack or separate plate to finish cooling.

Notes

• Fridge time is essential for the dough to create a larger denser cookie that wont melt on the cookie sheet. Stick to Old Fashion oats to create the perfect texture we don’t want dry or crumbly cookies. And make sure you measure and whisk your flour to prevent the same problem! Oh and dotting them with chocolate chips at the end gives them the perfect bakery feel and adds a little more soft richness to each bite!