These Low Calorie Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe are low calorie and all-natural!
I was so excited to find all natural food coloring, that I had to make these yummy minty cookies right away. Of course you can use your favorite food coloring, or omit it all together. But I think they came out so pretty with the all-natural food coloring.
These healthy chocolate mint cookies are 36 calories each BUT I have also included some options to change that! Here they are:
Lower Calorie + Lower Sugar + Protein Packed Version: Here is my 71 Calorie Protein Cookie Recipe, add in the peppermint extract and the food coloring with the wet ingredients.
Low Calorie Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
What You’ll Find in this Article:
Ingredients for Healthy Mint Chocolate Chips Cookies
Because I am all about the all-natural foods and no fake dyes, I recommend the all natural food coloring and the pure peppermint extract. If that is not important to you, feel free to use what you have on hand.
Special Tip: If you want to add creme de menthe baking chips, cut the chocolate chips by half and add 1/4 cup creme de menthe chips.
Shopping List for Mint Chip Cookies:
- All-purpose flour (or Gluten Free Flour)
- Zero Calorie All-Natural Brown Sugar (see recipe card for more information)
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Unsweetened apple sauce
- Vanilla extract
- Pure peppermint extract
- All-natural green food coloring (see recipe card for more information)
- Semi sweet chocolate chips
How to Make Healthy Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love parchment paper, it ensures your cookies won’t stick to the baking sheets, and makes clean up so much easier!
But if you don’t have parchment paper, just grease the cookie sheets before you add the cookie dough balls to them.
How to Make Mint Chip Cookies:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- To a large bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl combine the apple sauce, vanilla extract, water, peppermint and food coloring. Whisk together.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix together until just combined.
- Add 1/2 of the chocolate chips and fold into the batter.
- Scoop out 18 cookie balls and place on the prepared baking sheet.
- Wet your hands a little and then press the cookies down a bit to form cookie rounds.
- Top with remaining chocolate chips.
- Bake for 7 minutes, then remove from the oven and let cool completely on the baking sheet (they will continue to cook on the sheet while they cool.)
Low Calorie Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love cookies! So much I have deemed myself “the human equivalent of the Cookie Monster” and it’s obvious when you see this small sampling of my low calorie cookie recipes.
More Low Calorie Cookie Recipes:
Low Calorie Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
- 1 cookie sheets
- 1 sheets of parchment paper
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour or Gluten Free Flour
- ⅔ cup Zero Calorie All-Natural Brown Sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon pure peppermint extract
- 1 to 1 ½ teaspoons all-natural green food coloring
- ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Make these Cookies Vegan:
- ½ cup vegan chocolate chips in place of semi-sweet chocolate chips
Make these Cookies Gluten-Free:
- 1 cups Gluten-Free 1 to 1 Flour in place of flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- To a large bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl combine the apple sauce, vanilla extract, water, peppermint and food coloring. Whisk together.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix together until just combined.
- Add 1/2 of the chocolate chips and fold into the batter.
- Scoop out 18 cookie balls and place on the prepared baking sheet.
- Wet your hands a little and then press the cookies down a bit to form cookie rounds.
- Top with remaining chocolate chips.
- Bake for 7 minutes, then remove from the oven and let cool completely on the baking sheet (they will continue to cook on the sheet while they cool.)
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Article History:
- Originally written and published December,ber 16, 2022 by Audrey Johns
- Updated on May 4, 2023 by Audrey Johns
- Updated on October 2, 2023 by Audrey Johns
