Someone needs to come up with a better name for these!
I've seen different variations of this recipe on more than one parenting website. Basically the idea is that they are packed full of ingredients to encourage milk supply and if you choose the right recipe they are also full of yummy things to keep you smiling while you're stuck on the couch breastfeeding a tiny, greedy milk-monster.
Makes 6 dozen slightly-larger-than-bite-sized cookies
250g butter (or dairy free spread if you're avoiding dairy)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons LSA (ground sunflower, linseed and almond mix)
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour (rice flour works well if you are wheat free, otherwise plain flour is fine)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups rolled oats, thick cut if you can get them
1 cup or more chocolate chips
2 tablespoons of brewers yeast (be generous. In Singapore you buy this at Brown Rice Paradise and I've also found it in the organic section in NTUC Fairprice).
Preheat oven to 190C, grease and line as many cookie sheets as will fit in your oven (I usually have two going at a time with this recipe).
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and continue to mix well. Add vanilla and LSA mix. Keep beating! Add remaining dry ingredients EXCEPT oats and chocolate chips. Using a wooden spoon, mix in the oats and chocolate chips.
Drop tablespoonsful of the mixture onto baking sheets and flatten with a fork. Bake for around 10 minutes.
You can add chopped dried fruit, almonds, extra chocolate .. anything really! to make these a tasty treat. I served these to Mr B plenty of times and he enjoyed them too (and no, they never caused him to lactate!!!)
