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Healthy Cookie Recipes
If you can’t help but drool over these gorgeous 16 healthy cookie recipes, I will tell you right now you are in for a treat!
Soft, perfectly textured cookies with healthy ingredients such as pumpkin, chocolate, peanut butter, oats or coconut. Get ready to dive in!
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Are Homemade Cookies Healthier?
Due to using fresh whole food ingredients with no preservatives, home made cookies can be healthier than store bought cookies.
Packed with healthy fats, nuts and fiber, these cookies can hardly be considered a “junk” food.
The recipes below are lower in sugar than the average cookie recipe.
Health Benefits Of Specific Ingredients
Lets focus on the health benefit of some of the ingredients used in the recipes.
Health Benefit Of Peanut Butter
- Promotes growth of muscles and bones
- Helps to lower cholesterol
- Rich in antioxidants
- Reduces risk of gallstones
- Relieves constipation
- High in potassium
- Reduces risk in heart disease
- Reduces risk of diabetes
Why Go For Natural Peanut Butter
Natural peanut butter does not contain partially hydrogenated oil, the trans fat-laden ingredient that makes classic peanut butter silky smooth.
It also does not contain sugar or salt.
Fresh, ground peanut butter is more nutritious than regular peanut butter.
In a perfect world, natural peanut butter would contain only peanuts and salt and yes there are brands out there that are truly natural peanut butter.
How To Solve Oil Separation
Leave your natural peanut butter jars upside down overnight before stirring the peanut butter.
The oil will rise to the bottom of the jar making the stirring process much cleaner, easier, and more efficient. Try it.
Next what are the benefits of gluten free oats.
Why Choose Gluten Free Oats
Most commercial oats are processed in facilities that also process barley, rye and wheat.
The gluten in these ingredients can contaminate the oats, and the nature of most gluten intolerances is that even a trace amount of gluten can cause severe discomfort.
So one box of conventional oats may not create a reaction for a gluten-intolerant person, but then the next box might.
It’s best to completely avoid conventionally grown oats when cooking so try to choose gluten free oats instead.
Is Oat Flour Considered Gluten Free
Yes.
Can You Replace Flour With Oat Flour
Yes. 1 cup of oat flour grind with 1 1/4 cups old-fashioned rolled oats.
Oatmeal cookies are considered healthy due to the added fiber. They have a lower glycemic index than other cookies.
Final ingredient to look at is shredded coconut.
Shredded Coconut
There are two types of shredded coconut, sweetened and unsweetened.
How To Make Shredded Coconut
Raw coconut meat is boiled, grated, and dried.
Next, dehydrated shreds are packaged and distributed as unsweetened coconut or soaked in a liquid sugar solution, dried again to make sweetened coconut.
Is Unsweetened Shredded Coconut Good For You
Yes. Rich in fiber and MCTs, it offers a few benefits, which includes weight loss, digestion and improved heart health.
How Do You Store Unsweetened Shredded Coconut
Place shredded coconut in an airtight container, then store in your refrigerator for up to a week. Or store in your freezer, up to six months, for longer shelf life.
See our resource below for healthy desserts along with the list of healthy cookie recipes.
Healthy Dessert Resource
- Keto Desserts
- Vegan Desserts
- Pumpkin Muffins
- Easy Summer Desserts
- Gluten Free Desserts
- No Bake Energy Bites
- Healthy Banana Bread
- Pumpkin Cookies
- Chocolate Desserts
- Carrot Cake Recipes
- Keto Cheesecake Recipes
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Dietary Type
- Flourless
- Vegan
- Paleo
- Gluten free
- No sugar
16 Healthy Cookies
Enjoy the list of recipes below!
Vegan Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Read full details on: The Banana Diaries
Paleo Chocolate Brownie Cookies
Read full details on: Paleo Gluten Free Eats
Brown Butter Bourbon Pecan Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Read full details on: Baker By Nature
No-Bake Mint Chip Cookies
Read full details on: Feasting On Fruit
Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Read full details on: The Banana Diaries
Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Read full details on: Baker By Nature
Trail Mix Cookies
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Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Read full details on: Baker By Nature
Gluten Free Chocolate Chunk Cashew Cookies
Read full details on: The Nutritious Kitchen
Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookie Bars
Read full details on: Fit Foodie Finds
Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies
Read full details on: Half Baked Harvest
Double Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies
Read full details on: Beaming Baker
Wanna Be Brownie Cookies
Read full details on: Browned Butter Blondie
Flourless Banana Almond Butter Cookies
Read full details on: Cotter Crunch
Double Chocolate Mint Cookies
Read full details on: Paleo Running Momma
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
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