Try These 13 Healthy Cookies for a Guilt-Free Sweet Fix

Dana Sandonato · Jan 13, 2018

For many of us, 2017 was a doozy, but we here at Brit + Co are ready to hit refresh in 2018! Follow our Hit Refresh series through January for new ideas, hacks, and skills that will help you achieve (and maintain!) those New Year’s resolutions.

After eating a careless — maybe even reckless — amount of cookies, cakes, and tarts over the holidays, we're collectively hitting that reset button. Or trying really hard to. Sadly, it's not always that simple and we find ourselves hankering for anything and everything that's chocolatey, nutty, and sweet. But there's no need to fret; these 13 healthified cookies are the perfect solution for keeping those resolutions.

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies: As cookie aficionados, we obviously have a few tricks up our sleeves at Brit + Co. This batch is sweetened with honey and made up of oats, almond butter, and chickpeas! (via Brit + Co)

Gluten-Free Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies: The hazelnut spread over these cookies is ah-mazing, but what's even better is that these gems are made with unprocessed ingredients and have much less sugar than most other cookies. (via Eyecandypopper)

Tahini Cookies: Tahini isn't just for hummus, and these Paleo-friendly cookies prove it. They're sweetened with maple syrup or honey, and you can add cacao powder for a chocolatey twist. (via The Little Green Spoon)

Vegan Grain-Free and Date-Sweetened Chocolate Chip Cookies: Dates are pretty magical, and it shows in these gloriously gooey chocolate chip cookies. There's even a nut-free option using homemade sunflower seed flour! (via The First Mess)

Vegan Peanut Butter Date-Sweetened Cookies: Healthful Medjool dates are an incredible natural sweetener — so much so that these bomb PB cookies don't need any added sugar. (via Detoxinista)

Healthy Cinnamon Apple and Oat Breakfast Cookies: We're all for breakfast cookies, and these pack a healthier punch with just a bit of coconut sugar for sweetening along with apple sauce and honey. (via Lemons and Basil)

Double Chocolate Banana Cookies: If you're a chocolate fanatic but are working hard to stay on track after holiday indulging, you need these banana-sweetened cookies in your life STAT. (via Running With Spoons)

Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies: These cookies have a hint of savory to them, thanks to the addition of tahini, but keep things on the sweeter side with chopped dates and date sugar. (via Rezel Kealoha)

Four-Ingredient Paleo Vegan Chocolate Snowball Cookies: With shredded coconut, cocoa powder, coconut cream, and a smidgen of your fave sweetener, these sugar-free no-bake bites seem too good to be true. (via The Big Man's World)

Flourless Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cookies: This fab recipe gives you options so you'll never get bored. On top of the quick oats, natural PB, and smashed bananas, you can add in a variety of healthy goodies like maple syrup, dairy-free chocolate chips, extracts, or sea salt. (via Running on Real Food)

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies: Big on taste and high in fiber, these chewy cookies are low-cal and free of refined sugars — and ready in a measly 20 minutes. (via Natalie's Health)

Healthy Pumpkin Ginger Date Cookies: If you're looking for a sweet yet healthful snack, these date-sweetened cookies kicked up with molasses promise to deliver, especially if you're still digging all things pumpkin. (via A Virtual Vegan)

Banana Oatmeal Fitness Cookies: Smashed bananas bring the sweetness to this fitness-friendly recipe. Add raisins, walnuts, or cinnamon to jazz them up. (via Hurry the Food Up)

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Dana Sandonato

Born in Canada and now living in the beautiful state of North Carolina, Dana is a coffee-reliant food writer with a healthy appetite, a taste for culinary adventure, a thirst for good beers, and an endless hunger for food photography. When not writing for Brit + Co, she can be found pouring herself into her blog-turned-webzine, Killing Thyme, or taste-testing at local breweries with her husband. Dana's ideal down time includes pizza, marathoning on Netflix, or watching her fave flicks from the 80s and 90s - no matter how great or awful they are!

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