Recipes for making cookies while breastfeeding

A young mother is not only a nurse for her child, but also the mistress of the house. With the birth of a child, a woman only has more worries, but the role of the mistress is not removed from her. Everyone in the house should be well-fed: the child, the mother herself, the father, and, if any, other family members.

It's good if there's a thrifty dad with outstanding culinary skills in the house or a grandmother with her rich experience in confectionery comes to the rescue. But not everyone is so lucky. Many young mothers have to manage on their own in between taking care of the baby, which means they have limited time to prepare food.

Be that as it may, it is not so important who will cook for the table, what is important is what dishes will be on it. The birth of a child imposes on a nursing woman not only new responsibilities, but also certain restrictions in food. Therefore, in order not to rack your brains every day over what to cook so that it is tasty and does not harm the baby, whose main source of nutrition is mother's milk, you can start a special cookbook for a young mother, where all the healthy recipes you like will be entered. This book will be useful in the family for many years to come, because healthy natural food (and it is precisely these recipes that we are talking about) will always be in demand.

Cookies are one of the simplest dishes that can also end up in a cookbook, because if you make them yourself from natural ingredients, they will definitely not be harmful to your baby. The main thing is to choose the right recipe for their preparation, and the question of whether a nursing mother can eat cookies will disappear by itself.

What can I say, low-fat homemade cookies can later be offered to a grown-up child and older family members, who will also enjoy mom's baked goods. This option will be much better than store-bought cookies, especially since all family members can take part in their preparation, and then household chores will turn into an interesting game.

Dry homemade cookies without margarine in small quantities can be eaten by a woman during breastfeeding even if the child has colic, because it will not be more dangerous than bread on the table of a nursing mother. If such cookies are prepared unsweetened, then they can actually replace bread, the yeast in which is also not useful for the child, as is margarine.

In addition, baking cookies usually does not take much time, and a young mother can bake them herself. She kneaded the dough, put it in the refrigerator, and there are still a couple of hours left to care for the child and do housework. Then she decorated the baked goods and put them in the oven - there is a little time to play with the child. She took the cookies out of the oven, put them to cool, and the rest of the time is at the disposal of the mother and child. And the next morning, she can have breakfast with homemade cookies and bring something new to breast milk. When the baby grows up, he himself will crunch on mom's baked goods with pleasure and thank her with a sincere childish smile.

But enough words, let's get down to business and let nursing mothers fill their cookbook with delicious and healthy cookie recipes for themselves and their entire family.

So, home recipes for making cookies while breastfeeding. Let's start with the simplest recipe for biscuit cookies, which even a completely inexperienced housewife can make.

Biscuit Cookies for a Loving Mom

Necessary supplies:

• Flour (white premium or first grade, bran, white with the addition of small bran, etc.) - 260 g
• Water (regular tap water or purified) – ½ cup
• Oil (sunflower or olive) – 20 ml
• Granulated sugar – 1-1.5 tbsp.
• Starch (usually corn starch) – 2 tbsp without a slide
• Soda – 1 tsp.

As we can see, there is nothing harmful for the child in the cookies, so we can safely start making them. Heat the water a little and dissolve granulated sugar in it, add butter there. Mix the flour with soda and starch and add to the prepared liquid.

Knead the dough, it should be tough. Knead until the dough stops sticking to your hands. Leave it to stand for a quarter of an hour.

Take half of the dough, put it on the table and roll it out with a rolling pin to a thickness of no more than 3 mm. Fold the layer in several layers and roll it out again to the same thickness. Using molds, a glass or a knife, cut out cookies of the desired shape.

Preheat the oven to 140 degrees and dry the cookies for 30-35 minutes until a delicate "blush" appears. The finished cookies should be crispy and dry.

Cookies "Maria" for nursing mothers and their children

Necessary supplies:

• Corn starch - 2 cups (0.3 kg)
• Flour - 1 full glass with a small slide
• Butter – ½ standard pack (0.1 kg)
• Granulated sugar - ¾ cup
• Milk – ¾ cup (150 ml)
• Soda – ½ teaspoon

This recipe also does not contain any “forbidden” ingredients, not even eggs, which can cause allergic reactions in the baby.

The butter needs to be softened and thoroughly beaten with a fork. Add sugar to the liquid butter and beat again until white foam appears. Continuing to beat, pour milk into the mixture.

Separately sifted flour is mixed with starch and salt. Add the dry mass to the butter-milk mixture and knead the dough. The dough is considered ready when it stops sticking to your hands. Put it in the cold for 2 hours.

Roll out the cold dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of no more than 5 mm and cut out round cookies from it with a glass or molds, which we prick with a fork. Put our cookies in the oven for a quarter of an hour. The oven heating temperature is 180 degrees.

The cookies should be light, crispy, and not too sweet.

Homemade cookies "Vkusnyashka"

Necessary supplies:

• Flour – 1 cup
• Butter 100-125 g
• Granulated sugar – 2-3 tbsp.
• Egg – 1 pc (instead of an egg, you can use ½ tsp. soda, slaked with vinegar. or 1 tsp. baking powder)
• Salt – ½-1 tsp.

Soften the butter, add the remaining ingredients and knead the dough. Shape the dough into a sausage, wrap it in film and refrigerate for 2-2.5 hours.

We cut the finished dough into pieces, from which we mold various figures with our hands or press lightly, giving them a round shape.

Cookies need to be baked for 15-20 minutes. The oven temperature should be within 160-180 degrees.

Such cookies can be decorated with jam, berries, seeds, sesame, pieces of dried fruit, etc., but only if it does not harm the child. If the baby has a rash after breastfeeding, then you will have to refuse any additives, and take a minimum amount of sugar. But older children can calmly gobble up "Vkusnyashka" with both cheeks without harm to health, because this is mom's baking, and it cannot be unhealthy.

Oatmeal Cookies for Moms

Necessary supplies:

• Flour (wheat) – 1 cup
• Oat flakes such as "Hercules" - 1 cup
• Water – ¼ cup
• Egg – 1 pc. (preferably 2 egg whites, which can be replaced with 1 tsp. baking soda slaked with vinegar or lemon juice)
• Butter – 1/5 of a standard pack
• Granulated sugar – 2 tsp.
• Salt – 1/3-1/2 tsp.

Grind the oatmeal in a meat grinder or blender (you can dry it in a frying pan and pass it through a coffee grinder), mix it with wheat flour. If desired, add 1 teaspoon of baking powder and a little cinnamon, which is allowed during breastfeeding.

Beat the softened butter thoroughly with the egg and, continuing to beat, add granulated sugar to the mixture. Mix the salt with water and add to the butter mixture.

Mix both masses and prepare the dough. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of 3-5 mm, cut out various figures from it, sprinkle toasted sesame seeds on top if desired and put them in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for a quarter of an hour, until the cookies acquire a beautiful golden hue.

Multigrain homemade cookies for nursing mothers

Necessary supplies:

• Cereals "5 grains" or "7 grains" - 200 g
• Butter – ¾ of a standard pack
• Sugar – ¾ cup
• Ground cinnamon – ½ tsp.

For sprinkling: flax and sesame seeds, peeled sunflower seeds, pieces of dried fruit, and other things that the baby is not allergic to.

Melt the butter in a saucepan and beat it with sugar until the latter dissolves. Add flakes, cinnamon, dried fruit pieces, mix thoroughly.

Place the resulting mass on parchment lined baking sheet, smooth it out, sprinkle with seeds, sesame and flax seeds, pressing them lightly into the dough, and put it in the oven for 25 minutes. The oven temperature is about 200 degrees.

The finished cookies have a beautiful golden hue and a very attractive taste. While still hot, they are cut into small pieces and left to cool and dry. However, it is very difficult to wait for the multi-grain homemade cookies to cool down, they look so appetizing and tempt you to try them.

And one more recipe for mothers who adore baked milk cookies. Of course, it does not contain the flavoring used in industry, which means that it does not have the pronounced aroma of baked milk, but the recipe still remains close to the store-bought baked milk. But such cookies can be eaten even during breastfeeding, when the baby is 4-5 months old, which will expand the range of baked goods for a nursing mother and give her energy to perform the difficult task of caring for a small child.

"Toplenka" for mothers

• Flour – 1.5 cups
• Butter – 1/6 pack (about 33 g),
• Eggs – 1 pc. (or 2 whites)
• Granulated sugar – 3 heaped tbsp.
• Sour cream – 1.5 tbsp sour cream (heaped)
• Vegetable oil – 1 tsp.
• Salt – 1/4 tsp.
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.

Beat the egg, add softened butter and sugar. Beat everything thoroughly again and add the remaining ingredients. Add flour last in small portions.

Knead the thick dough, roll it into a layer about 3-4 mm thick and cut out cookies of different shapes. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees.

When baking different types of cookies, it is better to use parchment paper, which will help to avoid burnt base of the cookies. You can come up with the shape of the cookies yourself or together with older children or other family members. After all, even unsweetened bunnies and stars look much more appetizing and seem tastier than shapeless sweet cookies with various delicacies.