Made delish "Lactation Muffins" - recipe inside
Mystery2B
member
I like the Lactation Cookies, but also want something a little lower fat and just different from the cookies, so I tweaked a morning muffin a little - they turned out fabulous. I've done them a couple different times, varying the "add ins" (last 3 ingredients on the list), doing pecans and cherries, or raisins and chocolate chips but the below version I made today is my favorite. The banana, coconut, pineapple flavor is great together.
It doesn't have as much oatmeal as the
original cookie recipe, but does have whole wheat flour and you can up
the oat content but the light texture will suffer (heavier denser
muffin).
- 1
cup
whole wheat flour
-
1/2
cup
all-purpose flour
- 1 cup regular oats
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 3 T heaping - flax seed meal
- 2-3 T heaping
nutritional/brewers yeast
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
-
1
cup
plain yogurt (could also use flavored but cut back the brown sugar)
- dash
of vanilla
- 1 large cup mashed ripe banana (about 2-3)
- 1 large egg
-
1/2 cup toasted shredded coconut (or more, could be closer to 1
cup)
-
3/4
cup
chopped walnuts (or more)
-
1/2
cup
finely chopped dried pineapple (or more)
Preheat oven to 350?.
Place 18-24 muffin cups liners in muffin cups.
Combine dry ingredients (through salt) in a large bowl and mix well. Make a well in center of mixture. Combine yogurt, vanilla, banana, and egg; add to flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Fold in walnuts, pineapple, and coconut (or whatevery your add-ins are). Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, about 1/4 cup per muffin. Bake at 350? for about 20 minutes.
Here's the original
recipe from Cooking Light that I started with and tweaked - it has
the original nutritional information on it.
Re: Made delish "Lactation Muffins" - recipe inside
YUMMY!
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Thanks!
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I'm not sure but I haven't had supply issues since the very beginning when I wasn't able to make cookies and sadly didn't have anyone to make them for me.
But A) I figure the ingredients are good for you either way and
the key ingredients in the lacation cookies are the oatmeal, flax seed meal, and nutritional/brewers yeast which are still in the muffins. In fact there should be MORE flax seed and yeast per muffin than per cookie (although less oatmeal). Plus, since there is a lot less fat per muffin I feel like it's ok to eat more of them (not that the butter really stopped me from scarfing cookies, but the muffins I view as pretty much guilt free).