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Postnatal Cookies | Gemma Harvey

RECIPE by Gemma Harvey, you can find her at https://thebirthgem.co.uk/

Postnatal cookies

Notes 

. I find these turn out best made in a table top blender with a dough hook, I lightly fold in the last of the oats by hand. 

. Do not substitute the brewers yeast for any other kind of yeast as it’s the most lactogenic ingredient of all. 

.  Half a cup of additional ingredients can be added to this cookie dough, some great combinations are

 fig, fennel seed and walnut. 

Dark chocolate, cranberry & hazlenut 

Cherry, pecan and white chocolate 

Makes 14 - 16 based on a dessert spoon of dough each.  Prep time 5 - 10 mins, cooking time 10 mins. 

The cookie, the postnatal saviour! How many new mothers have you spoken to that lived on packets of biscuits in those hazy newborn days? These postnatal cookies are a firm favorite, I mean I’m 12 years postpartum and still enjoying them, granted due to my lifes calling I almost always have a batch on the go for a new mother and MUST taste test for quality control! If you are due to visit a newborn mother I can stress on you enough that you must bring something for her. She has just produced life from her body and at the very least deserves a great cookie, be that hero! 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup self raising wholemeal flour

  • 1 and ½ cup oats

  • ½ cup butter or coconut oil

  • ¾ cup light brown muscovado sugar

  • 2 tbsp ground flax in 2-3tbsp luke warm water

  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract 

  • 1 - 2 tbsp brewers yeast 

  • ½ tsp good coarse sea salt or himalayan salt 

  • 1 tsp cinnamon 

Optional ½ cup extra ingredients of your choice.

Method 

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper. 

  2. Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy  while the flax is soaking in the water.

  3. Beat in the the flax and vanilla 

  4. Fold in the salt, cinnamon, flour brewers yeast and 1 cup of the oats  until well combined. 

  5. Lightly fold in the rest of the oats 

  6. Spoon out and shape into balls, press onto baking sheet spaced out evenly. 

  7. Bake for around 10 mins depending on how crunchy you like your cookies. Don’t expect them to be firm on removal from the oven, they will firm up on cooling 

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