Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies (Easy Recipe) - iFoodReal.com (2024)

These are absolutely the best Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies that are soft, chewy, and loaded with dark chocolate chips. I have perfected my healthier cookie recipe and kids call it “Classic”!

For more healthy cookies with chocolate chips, try these oat flour chocolate chip cookies and almond flour chocolate chip cookies.

I am extremely picky when it comes to healthy cookies. Cookies gotta be worth their calories!

When I think of healthy chocolate chip cookies, I envision a layer of soft buttery dough covering chocolate chips like a blanket, and when you bite in, the cookies are chewy.

And that’s this recipe!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Tried and true recipe: This is a very old recipe of mine that I have changed and perfected over the years. The toughest critics, kids, approved!
• Wholesome ingredients: We use organic cane or coconut sugar, whole wheat or spelt flour with bran and germ attached, and better for you dark chocolate chips.
• No sacrificing the taste: Unlike many traditional recipes online, our recipe uses twice less sugar and butter, resulting in yet soft and chewy healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe. Plus no banana, applesauce, flax seeds or avocado are involved.
• Quick and easy: Cookie dough comes together in one bowl and we chill it only for 20 minutes.

Ingredients for Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

You will need only 8 simple ingredients to make these healthy chocolate chip cookies.

• Butter: I used organic salted butter and omitted salt. Unsalted butter works perfectly too.
• Sugar: I used organic cane sugar. Coconut sugar works too. You can also use all or parts of organic brown sugar as it goes well in chocolate chip cookies. I do not recommend to use liquid sweetener as recipe will not work.
• Whole wheat flour or spelt flour: This time I used whole grain spelt flour. Please don’t use all-purpose flour, recipe will need adjustment.
• Baking essentials: Pure vanilla extract, baking soda and salt, if using unsalted butter. No need for baking powder as we do not want cookies to have fluffy texture.
• Chocolate chips: I use dark chocolate chips because sweetness in a cookie dough is enough already. You can use semi-sweet chocolate chips or Lily’s sugar free chocolate chips and more of, if you like.

How to Make Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here is a rundown with a few tips how to make healthy chocolate chip cookies. You can find full printable recipe card with ingredients amounts and instructions down below.

• Make the cookie dough: In a large bowl, beat softened butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Then add egg and vanilla extract, and then dry ingredients – baking soda, salt and flour. Fold in 1/4 cup chocolate chips and your cookie dough is formed.
• Chill the dough: Place cookie dough in the freezer to chill for 20 minutes. This is a must to prevent cookies from spreading.
• Roll and bake: Scoop dough with a regular cookie scoop, roll into balls and place on prepared baking sheets 3 inches apart. Cookies spread, plan for 6 per sheet. Bake cookies for 10 minutes and remove while cookies appear underbaked, puffy and light in color. Dough will settle during cooling.
• Add more chips: Strategically place remaining 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips into cookies while they are still hot. Also you can skip this step and just add all chips into the dough.
• Cool: Let cookies cool on a baking sheet for 15 minutes before transferring onto a cooling rack to cool more. As cookies cool, you will see delicious grooves covering chocolate chips like a blanket appearing.

Tips for Best Results

Here are my well-tested tips for the best healthy chocolate chip cookies results!

• Use cold baking sheets: Make sure your baking sheets are cold. If you baked other cookies right before, cool them off. I stick mine in the fridge for 5 minutes.
• Measure flour correctly: I can’t stress enough, how important it is! Spoon flour into a measuring cup and level with a butter knife. Do not dip measuring cup into a bag with flour!
• Use softened butter: Softened butter means a dent appears when you touch it with a finger. To soften butter, just leave it at room temperature for 3-4 hours. To speed up softening, cut up in cubes and let warm up.
• Do not overmix the cookie dough: Overmixing will make the cookies more prone to falling apart.
• Don’t skip chilling the dough: Because this cookie dough contains butter and sugar, it has to be firmed up before baking. If you don’t chill the dough, your cookies will spread like crazy!
• Do not over bake cookies: With most cookies you want to remove them from the oven before they start browning and finish settling during cooling off period. It’s a golden cookie baking rule!

Variations

• A cookie sandwich: Kids will love when you turn these healthy chocolate chip cookies into dinky doozies! Just sandwich two cookies with healthy buttercream or healthy chocolate frosting.
• Coconut oil: You may use coconut oil but it results in more crispy rather than chewy cookies, with less grooves and more cake like looking cookies.
• Brown sugar: Some love a hint of molasses brown sugar provides. You can sub half the amount of white sugar.
• Naturally sweetened: Add instead of chocolate chips add raisins or cacao nibs (but less).
• Coconut flakes: Stir in a few tablespoons of fresh or toasted unsweetened coconut flakes into the cookie dough before chilling it.
• Nuts: A few tablespoons of chopped peanuts, macadamia nuts, pecans or walnuts will add texture and flavor.
• Fancy cookies: Chop up dark chocolate bar into chunks and add instead of chocolate chips. Once freshly baked, sprinkle cookie with flaky sea salt while still hot and after intentionally placing the extra chips in.

How to Store

Store: If you like chewy cookies, store in a cool dry place in an airtight container for up to 5 days. If you like crispy cookies, store them in a ventilated container.

Freeze: Bake and cool cookies completely. Then place in a resealable plastic bag or airtight container and freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw on a counter for a few hours.

You can also freeze chocolate chip cookie dough itself or roll into balls, freeze on a baking sheet and and then transfer into the container. Thaw in the fridge overnight before baking. If you decide to defrost them on a counter, you will have to place the balls to chill in the freezer for 20 minutes before baking.

Ship: A batch of chocolate chip cookies is perfect for shipping to family and friends. Bake and cool. Place 2 cookies back to back and wrap with plastic wrap. Then place in a plastic container with a lid, stuffed with tissue, inside the shipping box and voila.

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