Recipe Share!

I have run across a couple of  wonderful recipes this week, and I thought I would pass them along.


This first one is for the moms out there that are nursing, but can easily be adjusted for everyone.  These cookies have helped to boost my milk supply, and they are delicious!  Just omit the brewer's yeast and the flaxseed meal, and you have some yummy treats.

Lactation Cookies

1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk

4 tablespoons cocoa

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
2 teaspoons vanilla

3 1/2 cups dry quick-cooking oats

½ cup ground flaxseed
2+tbs brewer’s yeast (must be brewer’s yeast!)  

1 Add the first four ingredients into a 4-quart sauce pan.

2 Bring to a rolling boil and hold for EXACTLY 1 minute.

3 Remove from heat.

4 Add peanut butter into the hot mixture and stir until melted.

5 Add in vanilla. (Almond extract is good also).

6 Mix in the oats, yeast and flaxseed meal and drop by tablespoons onto wax paper.

7 Let cool until set.

 

This next recipe was brought to our mom's meeting and these lemon blueberry bars are delicious!  This is also a fairly cheap dessert to make, especially since blueberries are in season and always on sale at the grocery store.

Blueberry Lemon Bars

1/2 c butter

1 yellow cake mix

2 eggs

2 tsp zest and 3T juice from 1 lemon

16 oz cream cheese

1/2 c sugar

2.5 c blueberries

Heat oven to 350

Line 13x9 pan with foil. Melt butter, add cake mix, 1 egg and 1 T lemon juice. Beat until well blended. Press 2/3 of mixture into bottom of pan.

Beat cream cheese and sugar until well blended. Add remaining egg, lemon juice and zest, mix well. Pour over crust and top with berries. Pinch small amounts of remaining cake mix in between your fingers and press into cream cheese layer.

Bake 48-50 minutes. Cool completely. Refrigerate 1 hour. Use foil to lift dessert and to cut into squares. Keep refrigerated.

Enjoy!