Here are 24 reader favorite cookie recipes that would make the perfect gift to bake for friends or coworkers. Or they’re also terrific for not sharing and eating all by yourself. Just saying…
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Vegan Levain Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Snowball Cookies – 60 calories each
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Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies
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Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies
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(50 healthy recipes, including Emoji Sugar Cookies)
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The most popular cookie recipe on my blog is technically not even a cookie recipe at all. But it’s so good that you might want to just skip the cookie tray altogether and make one of these cookie pies instead.
Just a thought 😉
Thumbprint cookies!
Or chocolate peppermint cookies!
I vote for mint chocolate too!
I agree. Peppermint please!
These are the healthiest and yummiest thumbprint cookies ever…
Ingredients:
1 cup mashed ripe banana (2 large)
2 cups rolled oats (use certified gluten-free if necessary)
3 tablespoons ground flax seed
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
8 teaspoons jam
Peanut butter (or almond or sunflower seed butter), for serving (optional)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a food processor, add the oats and pulse until a coarse meal forms (see picture in blog post).
In a large bowl, mash the banana. Stir in the rest of the ingredients, except the jam and nut butter. The mixture will be very wet and dense.
With a retractable ice cream scoop or a spoon, scoop the dough into 8 mounds. The cookies do not need to be spaced far apart on the baking sheet as they don’t spread out. Press your thumb (or small spoon) into the centre of each cookie to create a well. Fill each well with 1 heaping teaspoon of jam.
Bake cookies at 350F for 11-13 minutes, until the cookies are slightly firm, but soft and doughy in the middle. Transfer cookies to a cooling rack for 10 minutes or so.
If desired, serve cookies with your favourite nut or seed butter. They also taste great with a pat of coconut oil or vegan butter!
Note: To make the cookies nut-free, omit the peanut butter or swap it with sunflower seed butter instead. 2) For those allergic to banana, you might be able to sub it with applesauce (and you might need a couple tbsp of granulated sugar to make up for the sweetness of the banana). I haven’t tried this yet, but I will update this recipe if I do!
Too many awesome choices! Not sure i can resist the Peanut Butter Tagalongs though, might have to start with those…
Nutella cookies please! Anything with Nutella!
I love your chocolate chip cookies. They are my favorites 🙂
Wow, Katie… what an impressive array of cookies you have created! They all look so delicious- I cannot decide which recipe to try first 😉
Some of my personal favorite cookie flavors include: Samoas, s’mores, salted caramel, dulce de leche, red velvet, lemon shortbread, white chocolate peppermint, molasses, lemon ricotta, banana chocolate chip, dark chocolate almond-oat lace, and salted dark chocolate!
I’ve seen a lot of recipes on pinterest for sugar cookie bars, but they are always loaded with sugar and butter. Can I request those?
Or something with chocolate and coconut. Magic squares would be great!
I actually do have a sugar cookie bar recipe I meant to post last year. I will try to get it up sometime this month for you 🙂
I would really love a healthy shortbread cookie recipe – I’ve tried at home and it’s so hard to get the same soft texture and taste!
I would love this too!!
I have no idea if this is possible, but it would be amazing if you could come up with a vegan and healthier version of a cookie similar to the French macaron!
If not, I would love another variation of breakfast cookies, or some soft baked funfetti cookies!
This was going to be my request too! A French macaron…. crispy outer “shell” and yet airy inside… with an amazing filling… hmmm lemon, pistachio, or nutella. This would be the ultimate victory!
I have failed with this in the past but will definitely keep trying!
So many healthy cookie choices to choose from! :DD
I can’t have any sugar at all, so I substitute stevia for all the sugar in dessert recipes, but my family usually doesn’t like it very much. I really do enjoy sugar(stevia) cookies! But my favorite cookie this season would probably be spicy oatmeal cookies with icing! I haven’t yet found a decorator icing for cookies without any sugar, though. Any type of sugar-free cookie that the whole family can enjoy for the holidays would be absolutely lovely!
Thank you so much Katie for your wonderful recipes! I don’t know what I’d do without them! 😀
I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!! Jam-filled thumbprints please! The soft kind if possible 🙂
Ingredients:
1 cup mashed ripe banana (2 large)
2 cups rolled oats (use certified gluten-free if necessary)
3 tablespoons ground flax seed
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
8 teaspoons jam
Peanut butter (or almond or sunflower seed butter), for serving (optional)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a food processor, add the oats and pulse until a coarse meal forms (see picture in blog post).
In a large bowl, mash the banana. Stir in the rest of the ingredients, except the jam and nut butter. The mixture will be very wet and dense.
With a retractable ice cream scoop or a spoon, scoop the dough into 8 mounds. The cookies do not need to be spaced far apart on the baking sheet as they don’t spread out. Press your thumb (or small spoon) into the centre of each cookie to create a well. Fill each well with 1 heaping teaspoon of jam.
Bake cookies at 350F for 11-13 minutes, until the cookies are slightly firm, but soft and doughy in the middle. Transfer cookies to a cooling rack for 10 minutes or so.
If desired, serve cookies with your favourite nut or seed butter. They also taste great with a pat of coconut oil or vegan butter!
Note: To make the cookies nut-free, omit the peanut butter or swap it with sunflower seed butter instead. 2) For those allergic to banana, you might be able to sub it with applesauce (and you might need a couple tbsp of granulated sugar to make up for the sweetness of the banana). I haven’t tried this yet, but I will update this recipe if I do!
Peanut butter and gingerbread?! I am in!
Also the pixie cookies looks so cute, in fact- they all do! Great post with a lovely collection of recipes 😀 x
Macaron!!! My first choice.
Here are some other ones that would be cool…
white chocolate blueberry coconut oatmeal cookies: http://www.ambitiouskitchen.com/2014/06/white-chocolate-blueberry-coconut-oatmeal-cookies/
or an apple pie cookie with chunks of apples and lots of spices??
Hi Katie,
I commented on this post previously but I had a very random question. I’m a senior in high school and in the midst of applying to colleges, one of them being Bryn Mawr. I remember reading that you went there but transferred–was it strange being at an all-girl’s school? Any input/thoughts from a former student who attended would be very helpful! Sorry if this is too off-topic
Bryn Mawr is beautiful, and I loved being so close to Philadelphia. For me, it was just too small. Classes filled up quickly, and it was not uncommon to end up having to take a class not in one’s major when all of the desired classes were filled. There are many positives to the school, though, so please don’t let me sway you against it if you visit and love it. It was also quite a while ago that I was there. https://lett-trim.today/2010/06/25/my-real-life-part-1/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
These look insanely tasty! I can’t wait to see all the recipes you re-make!
Snickerdoodles!!!
Here is her just ONE of her snickerdoodle recipes: https://lett-trim.today/2011/11/08/skinny-snickerdoodles/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
It’s yummy!
I made your ginger butter and used it in your peanut butter cookie recipe, following it exactly except I subbed greek yogurt for applesauce and I omitted the 2 tbsp of brown sugar because I only had full flavor molasses to make the ginger butter. I love how they turned out! It tastes kind of like a soft gingerbread cookie, but with a bit of peanut butter.
Biscotti cookies would be fantastic!