looking for delicious healthy holiday cookies that are also good for you watch
this video because today we're making three different recipes that you are
going to love and if you're new to my channel welcome to keep up with live the
place where we make delicious Paleo recipes and talk about what the
ingredients can do for your health so the first healthy cookie we are
making are these very thin print cookies I'm starting off by mashing up some
raspberries you can use both fresh or frozen here
I had fresh on hand so I just use that and I'm mashing them up so that we're
gonna create this really nice Jam with fresh berries and no added sugar to that
I'm adding in a tablespoon of chia seeds which have really great Omega threes
protein and fiber so just stir that together with a little bit of vanilla
and we're gonna set that to the side while we assemble our dough and what
that's gonna do is gonna allow it to thicken and it's gonna help create that
nice jammy texture that we're looking for in our thumbprint cookies in a
separate Bowl I'm gonna take one egg and crack that in and to that I'm going to
be adding in some maple syrup and you can definitely use honey here too if you
don't have maple syrup and then I'm gonna add in a little bit of vanilla as
well as some coconut oil which is a great source of healthy fats and not
only helps to nourish and protect the debt but also helps to make these
cookies very satiating and yummy while keeping them moist so just whisk all of
the wet ingredients together and then to that I'm gonna be adding in some coconut
flour along with some almond flour both of which are high in fiber healthy fats
invited me again not only with help satiate you but are also really good for
your skin and your gut I'm going to add in some baking soda and then mix that
together and this is going to be the base of our dough so this is a very
delicious like just normal dough on its own so if you don't want even want to do
the Barry thumbprint part you can just make cookies out of this and you just
get a very nice yummy basic cookie recipe so once that is all nice and
mixed I'm just using a little scooper to scoop out a little bit of my thumbprint
cookie and I'm gonna roll that into a little bit of a ball and just
and it down with my fingers and then I am just using my finger to make a little
hole in the center because we're gonna be adding in that chia jam that we made
earlier so just do this to each of your cookies until you have all of them and
then you're gonna take your Chia jam mixture and you're gonna put that in the
center now if you don't like grass berries you can definitely do this with
strawberry blueberry any kind of berry that you like just mash it up and use
that in the center you can even do a combo of two different berries if you
wanted to or a blend of berries so if you wanted to do a raspberry blueberry
mixture you could definitely do two at a time as well
so we're gonna put those in the oven and bake them and once they're done you have
these delicious berry thumbprint cookies made with good for you ingredients and
guys they taste so amazing and they're so festive too next up we're making
peppermint mocha cookies so if you saw my holiday cookies recipe video last
year you saw me make peppermint cookies and this year I'm doing a little bit of
a twist by adding in a little bit of mocha flavor so I'm combining some
coconut oil and some coconut sugar and I'm just stirring that together to allow
the sugar to dissolve a little bit and then to that I'm adding in some
peppermint extract but if you also have peppermint essential oil that is food
grade you can definitely just do one or two drops of that to make it mocha I'm
adding in a heaping tablespoon of ground espresso I did decaf just because if you
did normal caffeinated and you had one of these cookies late at night it could
keep you up I'm adding in some arrowroot powder which really gives the cookies a
nice soft chewy texture as well as some cacao and then for the main flour I'm
using almond flour here it works really well it's loaded with healthy fats
protein and fiber and also provides more blood sugar stabilization than your
normal green failed flours so that's what's great about almond flour is I did
does help with those healthy fats and that fiber then I'm going to be adding
in two whisked eggs to our mixture and just folding those in until our batter
is nice and combined now you can definitely leave out the
espresso powder if you don't want that coffee flavor and you just want a plain
peppermint cookie definitely leave that out if you want if you don't
espresso powder you can also use an instant coffee or whatever kind of
ground coffee that you have on hand will work definitely in this recipe and then
we are going to be adding in some dairy free chocolate chips so I did about a
quarter cup full and then we're gonna fold those in until that is distributed
all throughout our dough then I'm just taking a baking sheet which I lined with
a silicon mat I find these silicone mats are really easy to use if you don't have
silicone mats I would suggest parchment paper it just
makes cleanup a lot easier or grease your baking sheet so I'm using a spoon
and I'm just making my cookies now I like my cookies to be like a proper
sized cookie versus like mini cookies so I would say I use about two two and a
half tablespoons per cookie flatten that out and then I'm topping it with a
little bit of crushed candy cane I found these at my local Whole Foods and they
were made with real food ingredients the color in them was made with beet juice
so there's no red dye or anything like that so if you can try to find the candy
canes that are made with real ingredients and then bake them and you
have these wonderfully delicious peppermint mocha cookies have so much
flavor and so delicious and then we are making a chai snickerdoodle cookie so
I'm starting off with some maple syrup and to that I am going to be adding in
some coconut oil now if you are looking for a gingerbread recipe I do have one
for last year that I will link it down below because I know that's another
classic holiday cookie flavor so if you're missing the gingerbread I do have
a recipe for that and I will leave that down below adding in an egg and some
vanilla and then we are just going to combine our wet ingredients I will also
leave my whole holiday playlist down below too so if you want more holiday
recipes be sure to check that out too that I'm adding in some almond flour as
well as some coconut flour and some baking soda you guys see the blend of
flours really works well and helps to create a really nice texture to the
cookie then I'm adding in a spice blend which is just some cardamom some ginger
and some cinnamon and all the ratios will be left in the description box
below so that you can follow along but those are the three main spices that are
in chai cardamom it's a little bit more difficult to find you might have to go
to a larger grocery store to find but I did find it at my local one so
just fold all of those ingredients together until it is nice and combined
and you have a nice moist wet dose that we can scoop out our cookies so again I
have my baking sheet lined with a silicone mat and I'm scooping out some
of my cookies and the great thing about all of these dough recipes is that they
are definitely freezable both before and after so if you want to make a big batch
of the dough and then freeze it and bake them off fresh you can definitely do
that with each of them or if you want to bake off a huge batch of cookies and
you're not going to eat them all within I would say 24 to 48 hours keep them in
the freezer because that actually keeps them more fresh in the fridge little
note secret is that the fridge actually dries out most cookies so after I bake
these I just drizzled them with a little bit of coconut butter just because I
think they add a little bit of basically icing on the top and then that way they
also look a little bit extra pretty and a little bit extra festive so I'm just
drizzling that on the top a great thing about coconut butter too is that once it
hardens it's not going to be soft on the cookie right because it's hard so you're
not like worried about the cookies are messy so you can kind of like stack them
and not worry about it so drizzle that on the top and then just for a little
bit of garnish I just drizzled a little bit of cinnamon
on the top while the coconut butter was setting so that it would set into the
coconut butter but these are so wonderfully flavorful and delicious and
a little bit different than your regular holiday cookies so I hope you guys
enjoyed those healthy cookie recipes if you make them be sure to tag me on
Instagram so that I can share them if I had to choose a favorite I don't know
I'm really into the thumbprint cookies this year I definitely haven't had them
in a few years and I made this recipe I was like oh my god they're so good so I
think that one is my favorite make sure you subscribe because in my next video
it's going to be my first vlogmas video so it's going to be like I'm gonna
do a bite week so every week there's gonna be like a different blog miss
video smooth festive stuff I'm making recipes I'm doing tips for the holidays
all that kind of stuff but just more like casual videos so it's gonna be
really fun make sure you subscribe for that I'm also gonna leave my holiday
playlist right here so you can get lots more healthy recipes
there's breakfast ones like gingerbread pancakes errs Nanaimo bars there's
peppermint bark there's so many good really good recipes in there so check
that out after this video I hope you guys are all having a great day and I
will see you next time bye guys