Are you looking for the best healthy Christmas cookies for your cookie tray? If you know Alex and me, you know we’re into healthy cookie recipes…or really, healthier cookies! Here are our top healthy Christmas cookies that we think would be perfect for your cookie tray. They all have a healthier spin…but they’re so delicious, you’d never know it! Don’t forget to serve with healthy hot chocolate or hot cider (or the slow cooker version).
So what are healthy cookies?
Honestly, we wish there were a better word than healthy. Because cookies in themselves are not a health food! Alex and I like to use a few strategies for making healthy– that is, healthier cookie recipes! Here’s our approach:
Use nutrient dense real food ingredients. We love incorporating nutrient dense ingredients to counteract the typical loads of butter, white flour and refined sugar. Almond butter, peanut butter, oats, almond flour, and maple syrup all make appearances in our best Christmas cookie recipes.Amp the flavor. We use spices and natural flavors to bring in big flavor, instead of relying just on sugar. For example, there are abundant chai spices in our snowball cookies, or lots of gingerbread spices and molasses in our soft gingerbread cookies.Use just enough sugar. For every Christmas cookie recipe we make, we adjust the sugar content so that it tastes amazing: not too sweet, but just right.
And even though they’re healthier, we hope you’ll find all our best healthy Christmas cookies are just plain delicious. Here are our top favorites:
And now…our best healthy Christmas cookies!
More Christmas recipes
We hope you enjoy our best Christmas cookie recipes! Here are a few more resources from around the web: Another version of this cookie? Try our Narwhal Gingerbread Cutout Cookies, a playful tribute to the season’s best Christmas movie. Also try: 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies (gluten-free) No reviews
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