7 Healthy Holiday Cookie Recipes

By Genevieve Ko
Updated March 02, 2021
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You can have something sweet to eat and make a healthy choice with these delicious recipes.
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Cookie recipes

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Having something sweet doesn't have to be bad for your waistline. These delicious holiday cookie recipes will help you indulge your sweet tooth without the guilt.

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Fig-Date Swirls

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Ingredients:

Whole-wheat pastry flour, butter, egg, orange juice, dried Mission figs, Medjool dates, honey, sugar, salt, cinnamon

Calories: 71

Try this recipe: Fig-Date Swirls

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PB&J Thumbprints

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Ingredients:

Whole-wheat flour, baking soda, chunky peanut butter, egg, vanilla extract, strawberry jam, dark brown sugar, salt

Calories: 44

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Mocha-Nut Fudge Flats

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Ingredients:

Hazelnuts, confectioner's sugar, cocoa powder, egg white, coffee, salt

Calories: 43

Try this recipe: Mocha-Nut Fudge Flats

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Raspberry-Chocolate Meringues

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Ingredients:

Egg whites, cream of tartar, raspberry extract, bittersweet chocolate, sugar, salt

Calories: 27

Try this recipe: Raspberry-Chocolate Meringues

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Apple Pie Tassies

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Ingredients:

Frozen phyllo tartlet shells, apple cider, apples, unsalted butter, dried cranberries, salt

Calories: 39

Try this recipe: Apple Pie Tassies

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Cardamom-Pistachio Biscotti

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Ingredients:

Whole-wheat pastry flour, all-purpose flour, baking soda, cardamom, eggs, sugar, pistachios, salt

Calories: 23

Try this recipe: Cardamom-Pistachio Biscotti

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Gingerbread Sparkles

Our gingerbread sparkles cookie recipe uses unsweetened applesauce to cut back on refined sugar and also has whole wheat flour for added fiber.

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