27 Healthy Cookies to Satisfy Your Cravings ASAP
These healthy cookie recipes make tasty, low-calorie treats
Dessert belongs in everyone's diet, and these delicious, healthy cookies are here to prove it. Whether you're following a specific meal plan or looking for a more nutritious way to indulge in some sweets, there's a recipe for you to enjoy in moderation (including foods you can eat on a keto diet and vegan desserts!). And we promise — the finished products won't taste like cardboard. Ready to get baking?
Chunky Nut Butter Cookies
These cookies swap regular butter for your favorite nut butter, plus freshly chopped nuts for texture. What's not to love?
Fruitcake Cookies
Take the best part of Grandma's fruitcake (the dried fruit!) and turn it into an on-the-go treat.
Pumpkin-Cherry Breakfast Cookies
Believe it or not, these cookies are better for you than most breakfast cereals.
Get the recipe for Pumpkin-Cherry Breakfast Cookies »
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Nutty Shortbread Cookies
Swap almonds for flour to make a traditional cookie recipe keto-friendly.
Merry Meringues
Colorful, crunchy, and just 5 calories each? Count us in!
Strawberry-Oatmeal Cookies
We lightened up the classic sweet treat by blending in freeze-dried strawberries instead of raisins.
Hearty Oat Cookies
These not-too-sweet cookies are chock full of nuts, grains and dried fruit.
Easiest-Ever Peanut Butter Cookies
Four-ingredient cookies can't be beat: these are made entirely of pantry ingredients and contain no dairy or flour.
Chocolate-Dipped Coffee Meringues
Airy meringues are the perfect light treat after a healthy dinner.
Green Tea Cookies
Matcha powder makes these cookies beautifully green and wonderfully earthy — and rich in antioxidants.
Oatmeal-Pecan Cookies
No added sugar + just 70 calories a pop = a guilt-free way to satisfy your cookie cravings.
Chewy Chocolate-Walnut Cookies
If you follow a gluten-free diet, one of these decadent, flourless delights won't get you off track.
Get the recipe from Prevention »
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Blood Orange-Olive Oil Shortbread
Turns out, you don't need butter for shortbread! This 100% olive oil version features slightly savory, grassy notes that make it even more special.
Get the recipe from Prevention »
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Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies
Almond flour and honey provide all-natural richness and sweetness to this classic cookie.
Keto Oreos
Black cocoa powder gives these keto cookies extra chocolatey flavor and the perfect color to mimic the real thing!
Healthy Oatmeal Cookies
The secret to these moist, tasty morsels: substituting some of the usual butter and sugar with applesauce.
Keto Peanut Butter Cookies
These luxurious keto-friendly bites require exactly no baking.
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies
Up your greens with these gooey chocolate chip cookies. That's how it works, right?!
Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies
These cookies actually taste like carrot cake — but without the sugar and butter (you won't miss it, we promise!).
Chewy Flourless Gingerbread Cookies
Because we could all use a healthy cookie for the holidays!
Get the recipe from Running With Spoons »
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Samantha (she/her) is an Assistant Editor in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, where she writes about tasty recipes, must-try food products and top-tested secrets for home cooking success. She has taste-tasted hundreds of products and recipes since joining GH in 2020 (tough job!). A graduate of Fordham University, she considers the kitchen to be her happiest place.
Trish (she/her) is the deputy food editor at Good Housekeeping, where she covers all things food, from cooking trends and delicious recipes to top-tested kitchen products and grocery finds. She has more than a decade of experience writing about food for GH, Women’s Health, Prevention, Redbook, Woman’s Day, The Daily Meal and Food Network. When she’s not at the supermarket or trying out a new recipe, you can find her at the beach, in her backyard or on the couch — typically with a glass of wine in hand.
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