How to Make Delicious Cookies for Lactation Support
If you are wondering How to Make Delicious Cookies for Lactation Support, start here! In my search to increase my breastmilk supply, I ran into all sorts of products claiming to be, “The miracle to increase breastmilk supply!” However, After trying several of these products with no results, I became very discouraged. Also, I was spending way too much money without any return on my investment! After tons of research, with one finding promoting the miracle fix and then the very next finding, demoting that very fix; I had, had enough. So, I began to research what would help support lactation. Specifically, I researched what FOODS would help me on my journey. To my surprise, drumroll please….OATMEAL!!!! Are you kidding? Oatmeal? You mean, what I purchase at the grocery store for a little of nothing and use as a part of my toddlers breakfast? That oatmeal?!! Yes!!! That oatmeal!!!!!
Incorporating Oatmeal for more than Just Breakfast Time!
If I am being realistic, I don’t want oatmeal everyday for breakfast. So I asked myself, what could I do on the days I don’t want oatmeal for breakfast? I had the perfect idea. I will make my own oatmeal cookies, because what nursing momma doesn’t enjoy a treat every now and again? Of course, there is that extra added bonus of saving money from those expensive lactation products, that did not provide the promised results. This Delicious Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate chip and Cranberry Cookie recipe is simple enough, that I was able to make these cookies with my toddler, spending some much needed time, as he too is experiencing changes due to my nursing journey with my infant. Win Win!!!! Click the link here to check out the preview. Watch the full video below!
How To Make Delicious Oatmeal Raisin Cookies for Lactation Support
Equipment
- 1 Hand Mixer Stand Mixer is optional
- 3 Bowls One for dry ingredients and one for wet ingredients and one for soaked raisins
- 1 Cup sized Measuring cup
- 1 Teaspoon
- 1 Half teaspoon
- 1 Large cookie pan to fit all 12 cookies or two pans to split serving in half
- 1 cookie rack for cooling cookies
- 1 oven
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Raisin mix I used a mixture of golden raisins, brown raisins, and cranberries.
- Hearts desired amount Milk Chocolate Chips I love chocolate so I poured to my hearts desire
- 1 ½ Sticks Butter
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1 Medium Egg
- 1 ½ Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 3 Cups All Purpose Flour
- ½ Tsp Baking Soda
- ½ Tsp Salt
- ½ Tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 2 Dashes Nutmeg
- 3 1/4 cups Old Fashioned Oats
Instructions
- Preheat oven for 350 degrees.
- Measure one cup of a mixture of Cranberries and Brown and Golden Raisins, and place them in one of your bowls with hot water to soak. Place this bowl to the side while you work on your other ingredients.
- In a large bowl, added 1 and a half sticks of butter. This can be salted or unsalted.
- Add 1 cup brown sugar to the bowl and mix for about 2 minutes or until smooth.
- Add one egg to the mixture.
- Add 1 and a half teaspoons of vanilla extract and lightly mix again.
- In another bowl for the dry ingredients add 3 quarters of a cup of all purpose flour.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon baking soda.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
- Add 2 dashes of nutmeg. If you are a fan of nutmeg, add as much as you like. and mix the dry ingredients with a spoon or whisk.
- Add 3 cups of old fashioned oats and mix well.
- Add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients slowly, while mixing with your hand or stand mixer.
- Take the raisin and cranberry mixture from their soak and lightly squeeze some of the excess water out. You can pat them dry with a paper towel if you like, or just squeeze them through a strainer. Add them to the mixture.
- At this point, you can either add milk chocolate chips to the whole mixture as an option, or split the mixture in half and add the milk chocolate chips to only half the batter as an option.
- Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. This batter can make 12 large cookies so you will need to check the cookies for your desired soft or hardness of the cookies. I like mine chewy and soft but stiff enough to not fall apart, so I baked mine right around 18 minutes and they were perfect!!!
- Enjoy!!!!
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