Healthy Applesauce Cookies
on May 15, 2017, Updated Apr 04, 2023
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This Healthy Applesauce Cookie recipe is delicious & easy! Your kids can help you make & devour the cookies! They’re great for a busy morning breakfast too.
I’ve created a lot of healthy cookies recipes. Check these ones out: Healthy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Healthy Applesauce Cookie
My children and I have spent many a messy morning in the kitchen baking, creating, cooking, and just enjoying being together. I often have a helper when I make whole wheat bread for the week, when I’m making a batch of our forever favorite oatmeal balls, or when I’m peeling potatoes or carrots for a meal. I love being in the kitchen with my little people. The kitchen is my happy place and I’m more than excited to encourage that same love in my kids.
I have a few recipes that I let the kids make on a regular basis and these simple and healthy applesauce cookies are one of those. The recipe is delicious and very forgiving, and I always have everything they need on hand. My applesauce cookies are made with whole grains, natural sweetener (honey), and it’s also dairy-free! So I don’t even feel bad when they have a few for breakfast on Saturday morning if I’m trying to stay in bed a little later. Long live the healthy, satisfying, and delicious applesauce cookie.
Does the chilling time really matter in a recipe?
This step is very important. Don’t skip the chilling time, the whole grains in this recipe need some time for absorb the liquids before being baked.
Can I make this cookie recipe gluten free?
I think if you were to replace the whole wheat flour with oat flour it would still work and then you could make this recipe gluten free (with compliant chocolate chips) if that is a need for your family.
Healthy Applesauce Cookies
- Total Time: 21 minutes
- Yield: 2 dozen cookies 1x
Description
This Healthy Applesauce Cookie recipe is delicious & easy! Your kids can help you make & devour the cookies! They’re great for a busy morning breakfast too.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil
- 1 large egg
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 cup uncooked oats
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1–2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl, add the applesauce, coconut oil, egg, and honey, and mix to combine well.
- Add the oats, whole wheat flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Stir to combine well. Add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
- Refrigerate the dough for 10 minutes (this give the oats a little time to absorb some of the liquid).
- Use a cookie scoop or two spoons to place a rounded tablespoon of dough on a parchment or baking mat lined cookie sheet.
- Bake for 11-13 minutes, until the edges of the cookies are lightly browned and the center is set.
- Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool on the sheet for 5 minutes.
Notes
- Don’t skip the chilling time, the whole grains in this recipe need some time for absorb the liquids before being baked.
- If you have cinnamon chips, they are really good in this recipe.
- I think if you were to replace the whole wheat flour with oat flour it would still work and then you could make this recipe gluten free (with compliant chocolate chips) if that is a need for your family.
- I have tried this with gluten free flour and it worked well with a 1 to 1 gluten free baking blend.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 11 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
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This Healthy Applesauce Cookie recipe is delicious, easy and I know you will enjoy them.
I made this with oat flour instead of wheat flour 1:1 and monkfruit sweetener 1:1 and they turned out awesome! My recipe made 30 cookies using a cookie scoop. Same baking time and I’m at 5,000 ft. I did chill for 10 minutes and chilled dough between baking sheets. Delicious!!!
Made this recipe with baby food (apple, pumpkin, and carrot) and withheld the chocolate chips. It came out so good and perfect for my little toddler!!
Such a great idea! Thank you for sharing what worked!
Made this recipe with baby food (apple, pumpkin, and carrot) and withheld the chocolate chips. It came out so good and perfect for my little toddler!!
Followed the recipe except replaced chocolate chips with walnuts, cranberries, and candied ginger. The taste was good but found the texture a little odd. Seemed wetter than usual even though I baked them for almost 30 minutes.
Boo, I’m so sorry. Did you use whole wheat flour? The dough is still about the consistency of normal cookie dough…
Easy to make and really tasty!
Is your calorie amount calculated with 1 or 2 cups of chocolate chips?
With 1.5 (not sure why I picked that…) lol
Just made these but used spelt and a bit of buckwheat flour instead of wheat flour, a mix of whole grains instead of oats and sunflower oil instead of coconut oil which I didn’t have. Thankfully there are kids in the house that will eat these fast or it would be a problem x)
That sounds SO good! Thank you for coming back to let us know what worked for you, that’s so helpful.
I made these today and I have to hold myself back from eating the whole batch lol. I did make several changes; I used an extra egg (long story), omitted the coconut oil (too much sat. fat), and since I didn’t have premade applesauce I made my own with some plain simmered apples. My applesauce was mashed instead of pureed so it left some apple chunks, they tasted great in the finished cookie! I added pumpkin pie spice, chocolate and butterscotch chips, and flax seeds. Overall they were very soft and chewy but held together well, had a great light apple sweetness, and were super easy to make! Currently very happy and full : -)
Those changes sound AMAZING! I’m totally going to try it with chunky homemade applesauce, that’s such a great idea. Thank you for sharing the tips and tricks with us.
I love all the healthy ingredients that this recipe called for. I made these cookies with granola though. They were delicious, but I would have liked them crunchy. Is there anyway I could have done that? I will definitely use this recipe again ….hopefully crunchy though!!
Without much oil or butter in this, the crunch is going to be hard to get. You might want to lower the cooking temperature by 25 degrees and then bake them for a longer time to see if they’ll crisp up for you.
Will almond meal or flour work ok instead of wheat flour? Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I’m not positive but I think that it would. I’d definitely say it was worth trying!
Do you think you could freeze batches of these?
I only do if they are on a single layer, if you put them in the freezer with layers of parchment in between, or if you freeze them individually and then place them frozen into a zipper topped baggie for storage. You just don’t want them to stick together when freezing, they’d be so annoying to get apart!