16 Healthy Cookie Recipes to Bake Guilt Free (2024)

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Here are 16 healthy cookie recipes that you can bake without any guilt. These recipes are perfect for those who want to indulge in delicious treats without feeling guilty.

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I love to bake. Thankfully, my guys love cookies, and so we bake lots and lots of cookiesat our house!

Although my oven is constantly producing delicious treats, there are moments when all we really want is the taste of something indulgent, warm from the oven, and be guilt free.

These are those. Guilt Free Healthy Cookie Recipes!

Whether you’re baking holiday cookies, as I am, or need afternoon snacks or lunch treats, we’ve gathered some delicious healthy cookie options!

Healthy Cookie Recipes

Whether you’re baking for the holidays or looking for delicious healthy snacks, these cookie recipes will give you plenty of inspiration.

Some of my favorite healthy cookies here at 31Daily are the Breakfast Cookies I bake often and if I’m baking gluten free, the Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies are always a winner at my house!

Here are more delicious healthy cookie recipes:

1. Vegan Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

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“Tender, fluffy, vegan pumpkin sugar cookies that require just 1 bowl! Super fluffy, simple preparation, and perfect for fall!”

2. Pumpkin Cherry Breakfast Cookies

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“These delicious on-the-go treats are packed with protein (and fiber!) to keep you energized till noon!”

3. Three-Ingredient Coconut Cookies

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“Meet the incredible three-ingredient coconut cookies! They are sugar-free, gluten-free and vegan and ready to eat in about 30 minutes.”

4. Skinny Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

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“These healthier oatmeal chocolate chip cookies have NO sugar, NO white flour, and only 2 tablespoons of butter in the whole batch! They are the perfect way to satisfy your mad chocolate cravings when you are supposed to be losing holiday pounds.”

5. Chewy Flourless Gingerbread Cookies

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“Flourless gingerbreadcookies that are soft, chewy, and super easy tomake with only ONE BOWLand ahandful ofhealthy ingredients {paleo, gluten-free, refined-sugar-free}.”

6. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites

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“Chickpea cookies! Chickpea cookies with no flour, no oil, no white sugar. These are just full of chickpeas. And they’re my very favorite healthy cookie so far!* I don’t know if they really classify as cookies so I’ll go with cookie dough bites.”

7. Deep Dish Double Chocolate Breakfast Cookies

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“Ooey, gooey, soft, and chewy! These Deep Dish Double ChocolateBreakfast Cookies are the epitome of dessert for breakfast. Chocolatey anddecadent, but made with healthy and wholesome ingredients that you can feel good about starting your day with.”

8. Peanut Butter Banana Trail Cookies

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“A healthy Chunky Monkey ice cream type cookie.”

9. Grain Free Peanut Butter Blossoms

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“Looking for a healthy peanut butter blossom recipe? I made a few healthy modificationsin a classic recipe to bring you the most delicious and easy grain-free peanut butter blossoms of the season!”

10. Brown Butter Snickerdoodles

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“Gluten free holiday bakingseason is upon us! This easy recipe for gluten free brown butter snickerdoodle cookies is a must make Christmas cookie. Simple to make, egg free, and made with real ingredients. The browned butter gives these snickerdoodles extra flavorful! YUM!”

11. Paleo Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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“Guys, they are RIDICULOUSLY GOOD. Think addicting, thick, chewy and full of melted dark chocolate puddles.”

12. Paleo Carrot Cake Cookies

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“Thesepaleo carrot cake cookieslet you enjoy all the classic flavors of the cake minus the grains, dairy and sugar in one healthy bite! You even get that cream cheese frosting flavor too.”

13. Chunky Monkey Cookies

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“You mash some bananas, stir in some delicious and crunchy ingredients, plop onto a baking tray, shape and then bake. You can’t go wrong, you can’t screw it up, and you won’t have to wait long. Just sit back and have a freshly baked, no-effort cookie.This, my friends, is the secret to life.”

14. Skinny Chocolate Turtle Thumbprint Cookies

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“What I love about these cookies is that they [are gluten-free and] taste just like the candies and are a million times easier.I mean let’s face it, I’m no candy making expert.”

15. 5-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

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“Before you ask: yes, you can use almond butter or sunbutter in this cookies instead! These cookies are a dream: 1 bowl, a handful of ingredients and a spoon. Plop the dough on the cookie sheet and quickly smash ’em with a fork; don’t worry if they’re imperfect, because imperfect is rustic and rustic is perfection with this recipe.”

16. Healthier Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

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“Peanut butter, bananas, and oats! Oh and chocolate chips. How could I forget!?There is literally only4 ingredients in these cookies. FOUR!!!”

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