Let me interrupt your regularly scheduled (blog post) programming to bring you cookies! Healthier cookies, to be exact. The ones that make you do a happy dance around the holiday dessert table because they’re so darn good.
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The point of all this is to say, surprise! I’m posting on Tuesday. I just couldn’t live with the fact that you might not be baking any cookies this week. I mean, you are right? I’ve been so busy that I haven’t made any yet, but that’s all changing today!
It doesn’t feel like Christmas to me until the house is covered in homemade treats. Every year my sister Heather and I make chocolate turtles and peanut butter cups for our dad’s Christmas present; while we’re at it we load up the house with other homemade gifts, too. I’m talking homemade marshmallows, candied grapefruit peels, hot cocoa mix, nut butters, hot sauce, chocolate bark, truffles, and plenty of cookies. Everything gets packaged up into jars, bags, and boxes, and tucked into people’s stockings and given as Christmas gifts.
If you’re like me and haven’t even started your holiday baking yet, give these cookies a try. I promise, you’re family’s going to love them! 
5 Healthier Christmas Cookies
1. Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies. Made with whole wheat flour, honey, molasses, candied ginger, and plenty of spice, these taste like New England Christmas. 
2. Maple Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies. These soft, tender, gooey cookies taste like a peanut butter cup. Need I say more?
3. Salted Dark Chocolate Tahini Cookies are the perfect salty-sweet combo. Plus, they’re dense and fudgy like a brownie, and look puuuurdy on a cookie platter.
4. Oatmeal Raisin Carrot Cake Cookies. These cookies are the healthiest of the bunch. They’re loaded with oats, raisins, walnuts, shredded carrots, and candied ginger for maximum carrot cake goodness in each bite. I personally love eating these for breakfast, which reminds me that cookies for breakfast sounds PERFECT for Christmas morning. 
5. Chocolate Chip Cookies are perfect in every way. Crisp on the edges, chewy inside, and loaded with flavor from the white whole wheat flour and less refined sugar. These are Kevin’s all-time favorite cookie. Plus, reading that blog post makes me cry every.single.time. If ever a cookie was full of love, these are them. 
Tell me: what are your favorite cookies to make this time of year?
Happy baking, friends! As always, I love to see your baking projects. Take a picture of your cookies and share it with me on Facebook or Instagram so I can invite myself over to sample them all!! (Just kidding). (Sort of).