Best Healthy Cookie Recipes
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Just because you have a craving for cookies doesn't mean they can't be healthy. We've collected our favorite healthy cookie recipes so you feel good about treating yourself!
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Have your cookie and eat it too! This collection of cookie recipes are all refined sugar-free and delicious. And many are gluten-free and made with almond flour, apple sauce, and other healthy swaps. No matter what the occasion or craving, you'll find a tasty cookie recipe to fall in love with!
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While you might not think āhealthy' when you hear the word cookies, these recipes here are about to change your mind. Many of these recipes are made without refined sugar and most are gluten-free. Healthy swaps, like using whole grains, turn many of these cookies into good-for-you versions.
When enjoyed in moderation, cookies really can be a part of a balanced diet!
To help you find the perfect healthy cookie for you, we've organized these recipes into five sections:
- Refined sugar-free cookies
- Gluten-free cookies
- Grain-free cookies/paleo cookies
- Whole wheat/whole grain cookies
- Keto cookies
Healthy Breakfast Cookies Recipe
These soft and chewy healthy breakfast cookies are a dream come true. They're a flourless cookie recipe made with whole grains and superfoods such as oats, nuts, bananas, coconut, and raisins. They make the perfect healthy grab-and-go morning meal!
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Chocolate Almond Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
Chocolate Almond Thumbprint Cookies are the ultimate healthy treat. They're soft like shortbread, filled with chocolate, and are made without grains or refined sweeteners. You'll never guess they're a healthy cookie recipe.
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Cranberry Coconut Macaroons Recipe
Cranberry Coconut Macaroons are soft and delicious Christmas cookies. They're perfectly sweet and have just the right hint of tartness from the cranberries. A drizzle of chocolate makes them extra special. No one will guess they are healthy cookies!
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Healthy Coconut Macaroon Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
These coconut macaroon thumbprint cookies filled with raspberry jam are as delicious as they are healthy. Made with shredded coconut, coconut cream, and maple syrup, they're easy to make, and ready in just 30 minutes!
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Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
These gluten free peanut butter cookies are soft, chewy, and utterly delicious. They are a flourless peanut butter cookie recipe made with only six ingredients. You won't find a better peanut butter cookie around!Ā
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Gluten Free Shortbread Cookies Recipe
These gluten-free shortbread cookies are melt in your mouth delicious and impossible to resist. It's a soft, whipped shortbread recipe that's easy to make. You'll love these cookies!
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Almond Butter and Jam Breakfast Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
These healthy AB & J Breakfast Thumbprint Cookies are a great option for busy mornings. Topped with a fruit-sweetened raspberry jam and a drizzle of nut butter, kids and adults alike love these vegan and gluten-free breakfast cookies.
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Paleo Banana Cookies Recipe
Chunky Monkey Paleo Banana Cookies are chewy and flavorful healthy cookies that are completely grain-free. They taste like dessert but are full of good for you ingredients making them perfect for busy weekday mornings.
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Paleo Chocolate Cranberry Coconut Biscotti Recipe | Wicked Spatula
These crunchy paleo chocolate cranberry coconut biscotti cookies are totally delicious dunked into a steaming cup of coffee!
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Flourless Chickpea Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
It sounds strange, but these flourless chickpea peanut butter cookies are super delicious. They're made with chickpeas, peanut butter, and lightly sweetened with maple syrup or agave. They're naturally gluten-free + vegan and a tasty and healthy alternative to regular peanut butter cookies.
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Almond Shortbread Cookies Recipe
These almond shortbread cookies are buttery, soft, and naturally gluten-free. They're made with almond flour, real butter, and topped with a festive holiday spice mix. It's a quick and easy recipe that's perfect for holiday baking season!
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Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
These are the ultimate whole wheat chocolate chip cookies! They're moist and chewy in the center, with crispy edges, and incredible flavor. They're easy to make from scratch with simple ingredients, and they're ready in just 55 minutes!
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Chewy Chocolate Ginger Molasses Cookies | Fit Foodie Finds
These gluten-free chocolate ginger molasses cookies are crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside.
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Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies | The Healthy Maven
Chocolate meets coffee in these double chocolate espresso cookies that are made with almond butter and coconut sugar.
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Keto Peanut Butter Cookies | Sweet as Honey
These 3-Ingredient Keto Peanut Butter Cookies are crunchy, slightly sweet keto cookies filled with peanut butter flavors.
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No Bake Keto Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies | The Big Man's World
No Bake Paleo Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies (Keto, Sugar Free, Low Carb)- 4 Ingredient No Bake Ferrero Rocher Cookies recipe which take 5 minutes!
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Keto Thin Mints | All Day I Dream About Food
Keto Thin Mints are crispy keto cookies with a sugar-free mint chocolate coating. The perfect way to indulge in Girl Scout cookie season!
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Snowball Keto Christmas Cookies Recipe
Snowball Keto Christmas Cookies are sugar-free cookies that taste like the real deal.Ā They are made with almond flour so they are soft, buttery, and totally delicious. No one will guess that they're healthy Christmas cookies!
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Healthy Cookie Recipes Index
Just because you have a craving for cookies doesn't mean they can't be healthy. We've collected our favorite healthy cookie recipes so you feel good about treating yourself!
Recipe Index
Healthy refined sugar-free cookie recipes
- Healthy Breakfast Cookies
- Almond Thumbprint Cookies
- Cranberry Coconut Macaroons
- Healthy Coconut Thumbprint Macaroons
- Gluten-free Peanut Butter Cookies
- Gluten-Free Shortbread Cookies
- Almond Butter and Jam Breakfast Cookies
- Chunky Monkey Paleo Banana Cookies
- Paleo Coconut Biscotti
- Peanut Butter Chickpea Cookies
- Almond Flour Shortbread Cookies
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