Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies Low Calorie Wellplated Com

Pillowy soft with melt-in-your-mouth centers and brimming with dark chocolate chips, these healthy cookies are the kind of steady, judgment-free, and encouraging special something we all need. Need seconds or thirds (and believe me, YOU DO), and these healthy chocolate chip cookies with applesauce will tell you, GO FOR IT. They’re low calorie, low sugar, and 100% whole grain. These are also low-maintenance. This easy chocolate chip cookie recipe doesn’t require a mixer or any advance planning. And if you have a rough day, nothing comforts quite like a warm batch of homemade chewy chocolate chip cookies. They’re the best mood fixer-upper of them all. While I have quite the lineup of healthy cookie recipes on my site, and I spent months perfecting the World’s Best Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies for my cookbook, I’d managed to neglect the most classic of them all: a perfect healthy chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe. Like all great love stories, they were worth the wait!

How to Make Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies From Scratch

If you are anything like me, when you are craving a chocolate chip cookie, nothing else will satisfy. Thanks to this cookie recipe’s more wholesome ingredient lineup, you can feel good enjoying one anytime the longing strikes. Whole grain and made with applesauce, these healthy chocolate chip cookies are one of the healthiest cookies you can eat!

The Ingredients

Coconut Oil. These healthy chocolate cookies have no butter; instead, coconut oil makes them soft and chewy.Applesauce. Naturally sweet applesauce adds moisture to the cookies, while keeping them low calorie. Sugar. A combination of dark brown sugar and granulated sugar provides the perfect amount of sweetness. Dark brown sugar also keeps the cookies moist. Vanilla. A cookie must-have! Be sure to use pure vanilla extract.White Whole Wheat Flour. To keep these cookies healthy without sacrificing texture, I used white whole wheat flour. It provides the same nutritional benefits as regular whole wheat flour but is less dense and lighter in flavor.Cinnamon. I love the warmth and coziness that cinnamon adds to the cookies. Dark Chocolate Chips. With antioxidants and less sugar, dark chocolate is a more wholesome mix-in for our cookies. Plus, they’re absolutely scrumptious!

The Directions

Storage Tips

To Store. Keep cookies in an airtight storage container at room temperature for up to 3 days or in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. To Freeze. Freeze baked cookies in a freezer-safe storage container or ziptop bag for up to 3 months. Thaw and enjoy as desired or bake directly from frozen, adding a few minutes to the baking time as needed.

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Baking Sheets. Perfect for making these delicious cookies. Mixing Bowls. These stackable mixing bowls are easy to clean and store. Whisk. My all-time favorite whisk!

Thick in the middle and pleasantly plump in the best possible way, these tender cookies will stay super soft, even days leftover…not that we can keep them around that long!

One hour of chill time allows the fat to solidify and the wet and dry ingredients to incorporate so that your cookies come out chewy and tender.Chilling cookie dough also ensures the cookies don’t spread too much on the baking sheet.

You can keep the dough at the ready in your refrigerator for up to 2 days or freeze it for months. To Freeze Cookie Dough: Prepare the dough as directed, and lay the cookie dough balls on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Place the baking sheet in the freezer until the cookie dough is frozen solid. Freeze the frozen cookie balls in a freezer-safe ziptop bag or storage container for up to 3 months. Bake from frozen whenever a craving strikes!

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