You can make healthier homemade cookies by choosing quality ingredients. Here you’ll find everything from a basic whole-grain cookie recipe to healthy low-sugar, gluten-free, keto-free or savory cookie recipes.
- Basic homemade cookie recipe, easy and quick
- Homemade gluten-free cookies
- Homemade oatmeal cookies
- Homemade crackers
- Homemade Christmas cookies
- Other recipes for healthy homemade cookies
Cookies, especially sweet cookies, are not in principle a suitable food to include daily in a healthy diet, as they are usually rich in sugars and fats, sometimes unhealthy. However, if we make our own homemade cookies, we can make sure we use healthier quality ingredients, and we will have an ideal snack or complement to treat yourself occasionally.
We can make homemade cookies more or less traditional but without the additives, sweeteners or especially harmful fats that commercial cookies and other pastry products usually carry. Or we can make homemade cookies with less sugar or with sweeteners of lower glycemic index, with healthy fats and with other ingredients that help improve the composition of the recipe, to have healthy cookies that we can incorporate into breakfast, mid-morning snack or snack.
We propose a selection of healthy homemade cookies made with whole wheat flours or even without flour, with nuts and seeds that enrich the cookies with proteins and healthy fats, with little sugar (even if it is integral) or with alternatives to sugar, without palm oil, with fresh or dried fruit … and different styles, so you can choose according to your tastes and needs.
BASIC HOMEMADE COOKIE RECIPE, EASY AND QUICK
This homemade cookie recipe is designed so you can make cookies quickly and intuitively. A dough is prepared in the form of a roll, left to rest for a few hours in the refrigerator and then cut to obtain cookies that are baked in 15 minutes.
Among the ingredients of these homemade cookies, you will find whole wheat flour (can be spelt or wheat), butter, sugar or a sugar substitute, cornstarch, baking soda, citric acid and salt.
Optionally, to give them variety, you can add chopped nuts, dried fruits, spreads or spices. You can do, for example:
- Walnut and cherry cookies. Its secret ingredient is some beet juice.
- Apricot and amaranth cookies. Swollen amaranth is used, easy to find in dietetics and organic food stores.
- Plum snail cookies with poppy seeds. Delicious cookies rolled with stuffing jam.
- Chocolate cookies with chili. With chocolate, cocoa and the spicy point of cayenne pepper.
- Ginger and turmeric cookies. Candied ginger is used, which is delicious in the cookies.
- Oatmeal and apple cookies with cinnamon. A classic combination that never tires.
See the step by step of this basic homemade cookie recipe and its variations here.
HOMEMADE GLUTEN-FREE COOKIES
You can make delicious homemade gluten-free cookies by choosing healthy ingredients and without complicating too much, which will serve as an alternative to commercial gluten-free cookies, not always very healthy, both celiac people and people who tolerate gluten well or want to reduce their consumption.
If you choose the base flour well and opt for quality ingredients, you will only have to know some tricks to make homemade gluten-free cookies that will have nothing to envy to other homemade cookies.
In addition, we propose a selection of healthy gluten-free and easy-to-make cookie recipes, so you can start enjoying:
- Buckwheat biscuits with double chocolate. They are made with buckwheat and olive or coconut oil and taste a lot like chocolate!
- Stuffed quinoa and almond cookies. They are filled with strawberry jam, berries or other, and if it can be homemade, even better.
- Brown rice cookies. With brown rice flour, which provides more fiber and minerals than a refined flour, you can make crunchy gluten-free cookies with chocolate chips.
- Ginger and spice cookies. They are made with a millet base and, in addition to ginger, incorporate cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and vanilla.
See the step by step of these gluten-free homemade cookie recipes here.
HOMEMADE OATMEAL COOKIES
Oatmeal is ideal for making healthy cookies of all tastes. If accompanied by quality ingredients, it also allows you to make cookies of much better nutritional quality than those usually found in the supermarket.
- Oatmeal and apple cookies. Biscuits sponged on the inside and crispy on the outside made with whole wheat flour and nuts, in addition to apple and oatmeal.
- Oatmeal and banana cookies. They are made with oat flakes both whole and crushed and with very ripe bananas. Very simple but delicious.
- Oatmeal cookies and coconut chocolate. In this recipe for homemade cookies, oatmeal is combined with spelt flour or brown rice. The coconut is grated on the outside, so if you do not like it or want to replace it with another coating, no problem.
- Gluten-free oatmeal cookies “cookie” style. Cookies made with chickpea flour that you can make with certified gluten-free oats without you want completely gluten-free.
HOMEMADE CRACKERS
The crackers and other crackers that you can find in the market do not always have quality ingredients. Making your crackers at home makes sure to make them with few but good ingredients, and you can also customize them to your liking. Here you have a selection of homemade crackers, including, at the end, a proposal of raw cuisine.
- Keto seed crackers. Crackers without flour and with many seeds, very crunchy and ideal for reducing carbohydrate consumption.
- Crackers with cheese. A cracker cookie recipe made with whole-grain spelt flour and cheese.
- Shortbread style oatmeal crackers. Only with oatmeal, oil or butter, water and salt can you make Scottish cookies as helpful as they are delicious.
See the step by step of these recipes for homemade crackers here.
If you like raw cooking, or want to experiment with this healthy kitchen that avoids cooking food to preserve all its nutritional power, you can also try these cracker raw cookies:
- Enzymatic carrot crackers.
HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS COOKIES
You can make easy homemade Christmas cookies and very original vegetarian, dispensing with excess sugar and butter. Here are some healthy Christmas cookie proposals:
- Christmas cookies in the form of snowballs, made with spelt flour and birch sugar.
- Gluten-free ginger Christmas cookies, with millet flour and whole cane sugar.
- Vegan Christmas cookie recipe with three variations: simple, with nuts or with jam.
See the step by step of these homemade Christmas cookie recipes here.
OTHER RECIPES FOR HEALTHY HOMEMADE COOKIES
- Oatmeal cookies “muesli” style. Most cookies would be very far from what a healthy breakfast is, but this recipe with oatmeal, with dried fruit and nuts, is like having a bowl of muesli, but without the milk and in the form of a cookie. You can check the ingredients and the step by step in this selection of easy and irresistible oatmeal breakfasts.
- Almond cookies with chocolate chips. You can make naturally gluten-free cookies, rich in protein and fiber, with almond flour. These are very easy to make and you will find them in this selection of recipes with almond flour.
- Homemade sugar-free cookies based on spelt and oatmeal, ideal to offer a healthy snack to babies and young children. You’ll find them in this selection of cookies, sticks and rolls for babies and toddlers.
- Homemade raisin and oatmeal cookies, also sugar-free. Other cookies that we can offer to the little ones even before a year, at snack or even breakfast, if accompanied with some protein-rich ingredient such as yogurt or a little tahini or peanut or almond butter. You have the recipe in this selection of sweets and sugar-free desserts for young children.
- Cashew keto cookies, gluten-free. With cashew butter (although it can be another nut butter) and almond flour you can make homemade low-carb cookies that, in addition, are naturally gluten-free. We tell you the recipe, along with many others, in this selection of gluten-free snacks: more than 20 ideas and recipes.
- Homemade chestnut cookies. These original chestnut cookies, made with chestnut puree, will allow you to enjoy this autumn fruit in a different way. Check the recipe in this selection of recipes with chestnuts.
- Oatmeal cookies with tahini. Adding nut creams to the cookie dough not only gives them a touch of flavor but enriches them with protein. These have sesame cream and you will find them in this selection of recipes with tahini.
- Buckwheat and thyme cracker crackers. Crispy homemade cookies with herbs and seeds such as flax and poppy that we tell you in this selection of recipes with buckwheat.
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