A labor of love No Images? Click here Lactation Cookies While lactation cookies remain untested by clinical trials, leaving us without any sort of hard and fast guidelines for dosage or effectiveness, nursing mothers have long turned to ingredients like oats, barley, brewer's yeast, flax seed, and ginger to boost their milk supply. Meanwhile, ingredients such as cinnamon and macadamia nuts have been anecdotally reported to be galactagogues as well. Whether or not these ingredients work as intended may be up for debate, but there's a delicious logic in bringing them together in a buttery cookie. Anyone could enjoy these hearty malted oatmeal cookies by another name, as they're loaded with macadamia nuts, chocolate chips, and spices. But by calling them "lactation cookies," nursing moms can rest assured that there's one treat in the house no one else will steal. The Kitchen Essential Oat Flour Commercial oat flour minimizes the need for all-purpose flour, translating to a higher dosage of oat per cookie. Other chocolate-y recipes decidedly not for health purposes |