Healthy Cookies You Can Eat by the Dozen

Go on and indulge in these eight healthy cookie recipes. From classic chocolate chip to inventive lentil cookies, these sweets will satisfy without the guilt.

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Whole-Grain Chocolate Chip Cookies

These easy cookies have a cakey texture and a deep, nutty flavor from the use of whole grains, which also gives them a rustic look.

Get the Recipe: Whole-Grain Chocolate Chip Cookies

Double Chocolate-Walnut Meringue Cookies

These delectable little cookies are light and crisp with a slightly fudgy texture and a delicious chocolate-hazelnut filling.

Get the Recipe: Double Chocolate-Walnut Meringue Cookies

Breakfast Cookies

Cookies for breakfast might sound nutritionally irresponsible, but these hearty breakfast cookies are made with whole-wheat flour, rolled oats and bran cereal, so they're actually a quick and wholesome option for those on-the-go mornings.

Get the Recipe: Breakfast Cookies

Bal's Lentil Cookies

These whole grain cookies get extra texture from lentils and rolled oats. Stir in chocolate chips and pumpkin seeds for sweet, nutty flavor.

Get the Recipe: Bal's Lentil Cookies

Oatmeal Hazelnut Crunch Cookies

These nutty oat-filled cookies taste like a cross between a breakfast cookie and a granola bar. By subbing coconut palm sugar for regular sugar (it’s lower in glycemic index) and using half whole-wheat flour, Bobby Deen boosts his cookies’ nutritional quotient.

Get the Recipe: Oatmeal Hazelnut Crunch Cookies

Whole Grain Gingersnaps

Dotted with dainty nonpareils, these molasses-spiked morsels are stealth health sweets — no one will guess they're secretly made with whole wheat flour.

Get the Recipe: Whole Grain Gingersnaps