Healthy Holiday Cookie Recipes

This year I converted some old favorites into healthier cookie recipes. My version of healthy means more pure, using whole food ingredients. No bleached sugar or xylitol, no white flour. And it's been a great success. I think they are even better tasting than before! Why not try? 

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I don't even try to Make them healthy. But I do like to bake them from scratch because I worry about trans fats and high fructose corn syrup in commercial cookies. 

My favorite recipe right now is this recipe for Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies ( http://momgrind.com/2008/12/17/chewy-chocolate-chi... ).

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On two counts.

There really is no such thing as a healthy cookie. Combine butter and flour and sugar and well, whatever you think, it's still a sweet something. You can use 'more healthful' ingredients, a little whole wheat here, a little fruit there. But the recipes you've linked to nearly all rely on faux ingredients like 'vegetable oil spread' (which will have 50 chemical ingredients) or rely on portion size to make them 'healthy' (which is a great idea, by the way) but truly, ingredient-wise are no healthier than anything else.

Why would we want there to be a healthy cookie? Eat your broccoli, have a salad, drink your milk, eat well overall and then sit down and savor a really good cookie, one made with real butter, in all its sweet goodness.

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PS Back to getting ready for my cookie swap, where for 12 years my friend Ann has attempted to bring 'healthy cookies' and year after year, they've been complete duds, so much so that our friend Jim, identifying Ann's cookies among all the others, tosses them in the dustbin, without a single taste. Now she brings red and green rice krispie bars -- a huge hit with kids and grown-ups alike.

Alanna Kellogg
Kitchen Parade ( http://kitchenparade.com/ ) &
A Veggie Venture ( http://kitchen-parade-veggieventure.blogspot.com/ )