It is possible to make a balanced cookie that also tastes amazing, while having a healthier cookie may not sound as enticing as a cookie that is filled with sugars, fats, or sweet candy. It might be somewhat difficult to understand, but cookies can be added to healthy ingredients and substitutes so that they retain their flavor, but they are not as bad for you.

With so many people turning to lifestyles that are health conscious, cookies do not have to be absolutely tossed out of your diet. Instead, try a couple of the following ideas to help make some healthy cookies for your family.

For recipes that require chocolate chips or some form of extra sugar-based ingredients, try adding your cookies to pieces of dried fruit. Dried fruits are safe to eat and contain natural sugars that will also add a little sweet flavoring to your cookies. You can select fruits in your cookies that will match the other flavors, or just play with different fruits that you will find in the grocery store.

Cherries

Raisins

Figs

Prunes

Cranberries

Fiber is an essential component of a balanced diet, so why not add your cookies with fiber? When baking your cookies from scratch, replace your all-purpose flour for much healthier wheat flour. And if you add half of the overall amount of flour that is recommended for a whole wheat flour recipe, you can make a better cookie. The wheat flour will make the cookies denser than they will be for all-purpose flour, which would add more nutritious benefits and fit into your diet.

Adding oats to the mixture is another trick which some bakers use to add nutritional value to cookies. The oats can provide a crunchy feel to the cookie and will add extra fiber to your cookies.

Think of all of the things you use to produce your usual recipe for cookies. Now, suggest quality ingredients that can only make your cookies a little healthier, but taste as good as they typically are. You can make a nutritious cookie by substituting only a few different ingredients. For your balanced cookie batch, choose a couple of the following ingredient replacements:

Remove oil and butter with applesauce from your cookie recipe 

Cover eggs with an egg replacer or even egg whites. 

Swap semi-sweet chocolate bits with milk chocolate chips instead 

Replace sucanat (sugar cane) or stevia with white sugar 

Know that you have to think to make good food if you want to become healthy. With these easy tips, you can turn a nutritious, softly sweetened cookie snack into what would normally be an unhealthy, sugar-filled, fattening cookie.