Guiltless Cookies

Serves
:
4 dozen

Healthy cookies? Yup!

Ingredients
  • 1 cup sunflower seeds, toasted
  • 1/2 cup sesame seeds, toasted
  • 1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
    1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/3 cup maple syrup, brown rice syrup, agave nectar, or honey
  • 1/3 cup blackstrap molasses
  • 1 egg or egg replacer
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoons milk or yogurt
Instructions
  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

  2. 2

    Oil cookie sheet.

  3. 3

    Coarsely chop sunflower and sesame seeds in food processor, blender, or by hand.

  4. 4

    Place in large mixing bowl with flour, spice, salt, and baking soda and whisk together.

  5. 5

    In separate bowl, beat together oil, sweetener, molasses, egg, vanilla, and milk or yogurt.

  6. 6

    Add liquid ingredients to flour mixture. Stir until combined.

  7. 7

    Scoop by tablespoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheet.

  8. 8

    Bake 12 minutes, or until bottoms are golden.

  9. 9

    Cool on wire rack.

Nutritional Information
66 cals, 7 g carbs per cookie
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