Our lactation cookies recipe is not only easy to make they're also the best lactation cookies recipe we've ever tried. Filled with healthy ingredients like brewers yeast, oatmeal, quinoa, flaxseed, and pumpkin seeds, some of the best foods for breastfeeding!
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Cook Time12 minutesmins
Total Time17 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12cookies
Calories: 136kcal
Author: Courtney
Ingredients
1/2cupbuttersoftened
1/2cupbrown sugar
1/3cupgranulated sugar
2teaspoonsvanilla
2eggs
3/4cupall-purpose flour
1teaspoonbaking soda
1/4upbrewers yeast
1/8cupground flaxseed
1/4teaspoonsalt
2cupsrolled oats
1/8cuppumpkin seeds chopped
1/2 - 3/4cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Using a stand mixer combine the butter, sugars and vanilla.
In a separate bowl combine all of the dry ingredients, the whole wheat pastry flour, baking soda, brewers yeast, flaxseed, and salt.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and also add in the egg.
Fold in the oats, seeds, and chocolate chips and mix just until the dough forms.
Chill the dough for 2 hours (or more!)
Bake in the oven for 12-14 minutes.
Allow cookies to cool on a wire cooling rack.
Notes
We recommend rolling the cookies into balls then flattening into a cookie shape, not pancake flat.If you notice the cookies aren't getting flat enough take a metal spatula and press them down about 10-12 minutes in.