Homemade cookies: 30 easy and healthy recipes

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 the healthiest quality ingredientsand we will have an ideal snack or complement to treat yourself occasionally.

We can make more or less traditional homemade cookies but without the additives, sweeteners or especially harmful fats that cookies usually contain commercials and other confectionery products. Or we can make homemade cookies with less sugar or with lower glycemic index sweeteners, with healthy fats and other ingredients that help improve the composition of the recipe, to have healthy cookies that we can incorporate into breakfast, mid-morning snack or the snack

We offer you a selection of healthy homemade cookies made with whole wheat flour or even flourlesswith nuts and seeds that enrich the biscuits with proteins and healthy fats, with little sugar (even whole grain) or with alternatives to sugar, without palm oil, with fresh or dried fruit… and of different styles, so you can choose according to your tastes and needs.

Basic, easy and quick homemade cookie recipe

This homemade cookie recipe is designed so that you can make cookies quickly and intuitively. prepares a roll shaped doughit is left to rest for a few hours in the refrigerator and then it is 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 spelled 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 a little beetroot juice. Apricot and amaranth cookies. Puffed amaranth is used, easy to find in health food stores and organic food stores. Plum snail cookies with poppy seeds. Some delicious rolled cookies with jam filling. Chocolate chili cookies. With chocolate, cocoa and the spicy point of Cayenne pepper. Gingerbread and turmeric cookies. Candied ginger is used, which is delicious in 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.

Gluten-free homemade cookies

Delicious homemade gluten-free cookies can be made by choosing healthy ingredients and without overcomplicating, which will serve as alternative to commercial gluten-free cookies, not always very healthyboth to celiac people and to 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 a few tips for making homemade gluten free cookies that they will have nothing to envy to other homemade cookies.

In addition, we propose a selection of gluten-free and easy-to-make healthy cookie recipes, so you can start enjoying:

Double chocolate buckwheat cookies. They are made with buckwheat and olive or coconut oil and taste very chocolatey! Stuffed quinoa and almond cookies. They are filled with strawberry, forest fruit or other jam, and if it can be homemade, even better. Brown rice cookies. With brown rice flour, which provides more fiber and minerals than refined flour, you can make crunchy gluten-free cookies with chocolate chips. Gingerbread cookies and spices. They are made with a millet base and, in addition to ginger, they incorporate cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and vanilla.

See the step-by-step of these homemade gluten-free cookie recipes here.

Homemade oatmeal cookies

Oats are ideal for making healthy cookies of all tastes. If it is accompanied by quality ingredients, it also makes it possible to make cookies of much better nutritional quality than those usually found in the supermarket.

Oatmeal and apple cookies. Biscuits on the inside and crisp on the outside made with whole wheat flour and walnuts, plus apple and oats. Oatmeal and banana cookies. They are made with both whole and crushed rolled oats and very ripe bananas. Very simple but delicious. Coconut chocolate oatmeal cookies. In this recipe for homemade cookies, oats are combined with spelled or brown rice flour. The coconut is grated on the outside, so if you don’t like it or want to replace it with another coating, no problem. Cookie-style gluten-free oatmeal cookies. Some cookies made with chickpea flour that you can make with certified gluten-free oats without wanting them completely gluten-free.

See the step-by-step recipe for homemade oatmeal cookies here.

Salty Homemade Biscuits

The crackers and other salty cookies that you can find in the market do not always have quality ingredients. By making your salty cookies at home you make sure to make them with few but good ingredients, and you can also customize them to your liking. Here is a selection of homemade salty cookies, including, at the end, a proposal from raw cuisine.

Keto seed crackers. Salty cookies without flour and with lots of seeds, very crunchy and ideal for reducing carbohydrate consumption. Salty crackers with cheese. A cracker biscuit recipe made with whole spelled flour and cheese. Salty oatmeal shortbread cookies. Only with oats, oil or butter, water and salt you can make some Scottish cookies as handy as they are delicious.

See the step by step of these recipes for homemade crackers here.

If you like raw cooking, or you want to experiment with this healthy cuisine that avoids cooking food to preserve all its nutritional power, you can also try these raw cracker cookies:

Homemade Christmas cookies

Very original easy and vegetarian homemade Christmas cookies can be made, doing without excess sugar and butter. Here are some proposals for healthy Christmas cookies:

Christmas cookies in the form of snowballs, made with spelled flour and birch sugar. Gluten Free Gingerbread Christmas Cookies, with millet flour and whole cane sugar. Vegan Christmas cookie recipe with three variations: simple, with nuts or jam.

See the step by step of these homemade Christmas cookie recipes here.

Other healthy homemade cookie recipes

Oatmeal muesli style cookies. Most biscuits would be a far cry from a healthy breakfast, but this oatmeal recipe with dried fruit and nuts is like having a bowl of muesli, but without the milk and in the form of a biscuit. 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 biscuits based on spelled and oats, Ideal for providing a healthy snack for babies and toddlers. You’ll find them in this selection of cookies, sticks and rolls for babies and toddlers. Homemade raisin and oatmeal cookies, also without sugar. Other biscuits that we can offer to the little ones even before one year of age, as a snack or even for breakfast, if they are accompanied with a protein-rich ingredient such as yogurt or a little tahini or peanut or almond cream. You have the recipe in this selection of sugar-free sweets and desserts for young children. Keto cashew cookies, gluten free. With cashew butter (although it can be another nut butter) and almond flour you can make some homemade low-carb cookies that are also 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. Consult the recipe in this selection of recipes with chestnuts. Oatmeal cookies with tahini. Adding nut butters to the cookie dough not only gives them a touch of flavor but also enriches them with protein. These have sesame cream and you will find them in this selection of recipes with tahini. Buckwheat and thyme crackers. Some crunchy homemade cookies with herbs and seeds such as flax and poppy that we tell you about in this selection of buckwheat recipes.