hey everyone welcome back to my channel and welcome to my first holiday video of the year
i'm so excited to be sharing with you guys my three favorite holiday cookie recipes these are
delicious they're soft and yummy and all made with good for you ingredients so let's go ahead
and jump in so the first cookie we're making are these double chocolate peppermint cookies
i'm starting off with some coconut oil which is a great healthy fat to use along with some coconut
sugar which is an unrefined sugar so this is what i like using in baking along with one egg and you
can definitely use a flax egg in this recipe just allow it to gel for a good 10-15 minutes a little
bit of peppermint extract and then we are going to combine all of these wet ingredients until we get
a nice smooth paste and this is what's going to make the base of our wet ingredients for
our peppermint chocolate cookies and i don't know about you guys but like peppermint for me for the
holidays is my favorite flavor and these ones are also flourless as well so they're super easy to
that i'm adding cacao but you can also use cocoa since we are baking it it doesn't really matter if
it's raw or not some baking powder and then we are going to stir this together so as you guys can see
it's super easy to make you don't need to add any almond flours or coconut flours or anything all
you need is cocoa and those other ingredients and honestly they are so delicious and easy to make
i'm gonna be adding in some sugar-free dairy-free chocolate chips and these ones i'm using the brand
lilies which i just find at my local grocery store and everything will be listed in the description
box so the measurements for everything so that you can go ahead and bake it so just fold those
in and then we are going to scoop out our dough i'm just using an ice cream scoop to kind of make
like even cookies or even molds of the cookies onto our baking sheet so you want to line your
baking sheet either with a silicone mat or with some parchment paper so that it doesn't stick
and then just scoop out your cookies using your cookie scoop to make them nice and even
i'm adding some candy canes on the top these were ones that i found at my local health food
store they had no dyes in it no artificial colors flavors and everything like that they were natural
ones so i just crushed some of those up and i sprinkled them on the top and then we're gonna
bake them at 350 degrees and once they come out they are so warm fudgy and gooey they're
the perfect soft peppermint chocolate cookie if you're a fan of peppermint and chocolate then you
will love these next up we are making shortbread cookies which are another one of my favorite
cookies for the holiday season i'm starting off with some maple syrup for some sweetness
and some coconut oil this helps keep them really nice and soft as a soft shortbread cookie then
for flour we're using a combo of almond flour and cassava flour i find this combo really gives it
that like nostalgic shortbread cookie flavor the mix of the cassava or cassava however you say it
and the almond gives really the perfect texture that you would normally find
in your conventional soft shortbread cookie and that's it guys the dough is very simple
i would highly suggest making this dough and then chilling it for a little bit before molding it
so that it's a little bit easier to work with after you've chilled it for about 15-20 minutes
we can go ahead and take out our cookie cutters you can also make any kind of shape that you want
i just sprinkle a little bit more flour on the top before rolling it out and you want it about
a quarter of an inch thick so just roll it out with your rolling pin and like i said you can
do any kind of shapes you want so i have a tree a stocking a star you can even make shortbread like
men if you had like a gingerbread man shape whatever you want just roll it out and then
take each of your cookie cutters and mold that into the dough now like i said this will be easier
if your dough is chilled to lift them up off of your surface and get them onto your baking mat so
i would suggest really to chill it beforehand it will warm up quite quickly at room temperature so
give it a nice chill before you do it you can even prep the dough overnight as well and then bake
them the next day so once you have your shapes just go ahead and lift them off and put them onto
again your silicone mat or a sheet with parchment paper and honestly these are so fun to make
because you can also decorate these afterwards and all you have to do is keep rolling out your dough
making the shapes that you want to you can even do letters and spell like xmas or noelle or anything
like that and place them on your sheet once they are done baking i'm just drizzling on some coconut
butter to finish it off this coconut butter had almond in it as well and it's really flavorful
coconut butter is like my favorite thing to use as a quick glaze it's sugar free it's one ingredient
and so easy but you can also put your favorite frosting on these or decorate them if you like
to decorate your shortbread cookies definitely one of my favorite cookie recipes for the holiday time
and i make these every single year they certainly don't disappoint and then of course we have to
make a gingerbread cookie and these ones are nice and soft so i'm starting off with some nut butter
you're going to want to use a very drippy kind of nut butter whichever one you can find
almond and cashew are going to be the most plain and basic ones the other ones might leave a little
bit of a flavor so if you use the peanut butter it would just taste a little bit more peanuty
i'm adding in a couple eggs but you can definitely use a flax eggs in these recipes
some coconut oil some vanilla and then star which is blackstrap molasses now blackstrap molasses
has loads of health benefits it's actually full of iron so it's super good for you make sure to
get the organic black strap kind not the refined kind because that is a refined sugar so add that
in and this also helps not only to give it the gingerbread flavor but the gingerbread color as
well so we're going to mix together all of our wet ingredients until everything is nice and combined
stirring it all together and then for our flowers for this we're going to be adding in a little bit
of almond flour as well as a spice mix so i broke it down in the description box below but it is a
blend of clove and cinnamon and ginger and nutmeg and cardamom all of these wonderful holiday spices
that you would normally expect in your gingerbread you can find in the blend so add that in and then
we're gonna mix this all together until everything is nice and combined and you can definitely use
this to make gingerbread men as well you will just get more of a softer gingerbread man so i'm going
to scoop mine out with just a spoon and make round ones but like i said if you want more of like the
pillowy kind of gingerbread men you can definitely roll this out and use your cookie mold and just
place that on your baking sheet again of course lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat
bake them off and you have these wonderfully pillowy soft gingerbread cookies for the
holidays all right guys i hope you enjoyed this video i'm going to leave my last healthy dessert
video here on the screen so you can get lots more healthy dessert recipes and comment down below
your favorite holiday cookie like of all time and if i haven't made a healthy version of it
i can definitely make a healthy version of it too and i will see you guys in my next video bye guys