Healthy cookie recipes for seniors

Everyone loves a good cookie, but hates to waste the calories. Don’t sacrifice what you love! Follow these healthy cookie recipes and be able to indulge without feeling guilty.

Everyone loves a good cookie, but most of us don’t like to consume too many calories. Wouldn’t it be great to have some cookie recipes that have more healthy ingredients? Here you go:

84393179 - blueberry scones pastry. selective focus.Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies

  • 2 cups almond flour
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp. kosher salt
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup almond butter
  • 3 tbsp. honey
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • Sea salt for garnish

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Stir together almond flour, baking soda and salt. While using a hand mixer, add the butter, honey, egg and vanilla. Fold in the chocolate chips and dish out tablespoonfuls of batter to the baking sheet. Sprinkle with sea salt and bake for 13 to 15 minutes.

Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies

  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 3/4 tsp. baking soda
  • 3 tbsp. flour
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 2 tbsp. applesauce
  • 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1/8 tsp. salt

Combine all dry ingredients listed above in a mixing bowl. Add all remaining wet ingredients to the mixing bowl until dough forms. Roll dough into cookie balls and bake in a 350-degree preheated oven for eight minutes. Let the cookies cool for at least 10 minutes before serving.

Healthy Girl Scout Tagalongs

  • 1 cup almond flour
  • 1/8 tsp. + 1/16 tsp. salt
  • 1/8 tsp. baking soda
  • 2 tbsp. pure maple syrup
  • 1 1/2 tbsp. vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
  • 20 tsp. peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Set aside the peanut butter and chocolate chips. Combine all liquid ingredients in a bowl and in a separate bowl, combine all dry ingredients. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and break the dough into clumps as you mix. Roll out the dough and cut with a circle cutter. Freeze the dough at least 20 minutes before baking for 10 to 13 minutes at 325 degrees on a greased cookie pan. Let the baked cookies firm up in the pan for 10 minutes before spreading almost 1 tsp. nut butter on each and moving them to a wire rack over a sheet of waxed paper. Melt the chocolate in the microwave and carefully spread over the top of the cookies. Chill cookies until the chocolate hardens.

Enjoy!