I am so excited to share these fantastic recipes with you!
**Drum Roll** And now ladies and gentlemen, I am SUPER stoked to be able to share with you a selection of ABSOLUTELY delicious cookies from some equally amazing ladies.
I think you’ll agree, the pictures are to die for!
All the cookies you are about to see were baked specially for this event so please go crazy and share this page across your social medias and personal networks (like & share buttons are at the bottom of this post – thank you!) These cookies must not end up the worlds best kept secret – people need to know about these treats
18 lovely blogger ladies had the difficult task to create Christmas cookies recipes that were lots healthier than the traditional ones full of sugar.
These are the results:
Sugar Free Cookies – Sweetened just with Stevia or Xylitol
Sugar-Free Sugar Cookies – Gluten, Dairy, Egg and Sugar Free from Candida free Candee
These cookies are everything a whole food sugar cookie could be. They are fantastic. They are flaky, light, crisp and they roll out and cut beautifully.
Dark Chocolate Truffle Cookies – gluten free and dairy free from Tessa Domestic Diva
These cookies are like little dark truffles: dense and chewy with a dark chocolate flavor. Perhaps not health food but enjoyed once in a while these truffley cookies are a real treat! You can make them with Coconut Sugar, and they also work like a charm with half Xylitol and a little Stevia.
Macadamia Coconut Cookies – gluten free and sugar free from Candida diet Plan
These chunky honey coloured cookies are crunchy and chewy and get their sweetness from a little Xylitol and Stevia – you’d never know that there’s no sugar in them!
Super Quick No Bake & Raw Cookies
Christmas No-Bake Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies – gluten free, grain free & super versatile from Gluten free Cat
You can decorate by rolling them in the nuts of your choice, make a thumbprint and fill the hole, or leave them plain. Sweet cashews taste delicious.
Jungle Balls – quick, raw & vegan from Carrie on Vegan
This recipe uses a base of almonds and hemp seeds, with currants and raisins to sweeten, cinnamon and carob for flavor, and then a punch of protein-powder. It only takes a few minutes with a food processor.
Raw Gingerbread Men – Raw, grain free, and vegan from Om Nom Ally
These cookies are made with gut healing dates and almond meal for a healthy Christmas treat. They’re the perfect chewy consistency and store well at room temperature or the fridge for a few days (if they last that long).
Chocolate-Orange-Goji Cookies (No-Bake or Baked) – gluten free from Coconut and Berries
These cookies can be enjoyed either raw or baked! They have a lovely chewy texture, rich chocolatey taste with fruity undercurrents from the orange and gojis.
Cookies Recipes with Low Glycemic Palm/Coconut Sugar or Molasses
Spiced Orange Cookies – gluten-free, vegan & oil-free from Stir, Sift & Savour

Perfect with an afternoon tea or can be jazzed up for a special occasion with a drizzle of chocolate or an orange glaze.
Gingerbread Men who like to be healthy – gluten free, dairy free & vegan from Including Cake
These “healthified” Gingerbread Men are beautifully crisp, with the goodness of buckwheat, ground almonds and spices and only a hint of molasses and dates for sweetness.
Quinoa Raisin Cookies – gluten free from Simply Sugar and Gluten free
These refined sugar-free cookies are a spin on Oatmeal Raisin Cookies – soft and chewy with just the right texture and mouth feel. For those of you who can’t eat oats, these are the perfect solution. And, if you can eat oats make these anyway. They’ve got a healthy nutritional boost from quinoa flakes.
Gingerbread-Cookies – Gluten free, dairy free and egg free from Sandi’s Allergy free Recipes
Another healthy take on Gingerbread cookies, yeah. So good, you can eat them all year round. Just make circle cookies shapes rather than Gingerbread men… And you can swap the molasses and palm sugar for Xylitol & Stevia to make them more Candida diet friendly if required.
Cookies with a bit of Fruit, Agave, Maple Syrup or Honey
Flourless Triple Nut (or Seed) Brownies – gluten free, grain free, vegan & paleo from Gluten free Easily
These refined sugar free treats contain wonderfully healthy nut and seed butter and are only lightly sweetened with banana.
Hazelnut and Cherry Carob Truffles – vegan, wheat-free and easily made gluten free from Bitesized Thoughts
These biscuits have warm caramel hues, crisp on the outside and chewy within. To top things off, hazelnut nibs are scattered throughout for texture and flavour contrast. Sweetened with agave or maple syrup.
Double Chocolate Paleo Hazelnut Cookies – gluten free, grain free & dairy free from the Tasty Alternative
Dates give these cookies a nice chewy, soft texture. Also taste scrumptious with almonds or walnuts. Sweetened with honey.
Healthy Peppermint Oreo Cookies – vegan & gluten free from The Healthy Maven
A gluten free, vegan and refined sugar-free holiday treat that everyone can enjoy!
You never guess what made the cookies filling so red – beetroot! How cool is that!
Chewy Molasses Cookies – gluten-free and sweetened with date sugar – from Queen of Quinoa
The quinoa not only adds protein, but also provides that light crunch that these lovely cookies have.
Anzac Biscuits with Cranberries – from Green Gourmet Giraffe Blog
The chocolate patches and the juicy but slightly tart cranberries lift the flavour of these biscuits to something special. Anzac is an acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps btw.
Sweetened with brown sugar and golden syrup. This can be easily replaced with 3/4 cup xylitol and 2 sachets of stevia to make the cookies candida diet friendly.
Chocolate Mint Tea Cookies – refined sugar free from Spiced Curiosity
The cookies are a nice simple alternative to sugar cookies; just slip in a few tablespoons of your favorite tea, and voilà!
Light, crunchy, with an intriguing tea blend. Instant awesomeness.
Conversion Tips – How to Use Stevia & Xylitol to Replace Sugar?
If you don’t know how to convert your favourite traditional Christmas Cookies into sugar free ones then you might like my latest post about using Stevia and Xylitol in baking.
Wanted crisp cookies but they turned out chewy – or the other way round? It’s not that easy to get the cookies exactly how you want them. Especially if you are baking with gluten free flours that behave differently from regular flour. I found these tips from Gluten free Baking for Dummies helpful.
Candida Diet Advice:
Not all the recipes on this page are suitable for the candida diet, especially not for the first few weeks where you are not allowed any sugar, fruit, grains, carbs or other sweetener. Thankfully a few of the recipes are fine to eat from stage 3 of the diet onwards, and the vast majority of the recipes here can be slightly adjusted to make them fully candida diet friendly. In most cases even without impacting on the flavour and appearance. You basically want to omit any fruit, use gluten free flours where possible and replace any sugar or syrup with Xylitol and/or Stevia. And if you’re totally stuck for completely sugar free Christmas cookies then hang tight as I’ll be sharing the Candida cookies with Stevia and Xylitol I have made recently. Will be live in a few days time.
In the meantime please like and share this post and tell me below – What Cookies are you making this year?
I shared this post with Gluten free Fridays and Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays.
18 Comments
Candace @ Candida Free Candee
December 13, 2013These all look amazing, I can’t wait to have a closer look at all of them!
Sandra
December 13, 2013Gosh you’re fast
I was really impressed with the high quality of the recipes and presentation too – totally awesome!
Right, bedtime now for me. So if I’m not answering for the next few hours that doesn’t mean I have eaten too many cookies, I’m probably just sleeping haha (mind you I DID eat too many cookies ?
Ricki
December 13, 2013What a lovely roundup! So many delicious looking cookies. Nice to see some with stevia and coconut sugar, too.
Sandra
December 13, 2013So true – sugar reduced recipes are so hard to come by. Glad you like them Ricki. Thanks for popping in – I’ll be sure to check your cookies out very soon. Especially the Hazelnut Mocha Cookies and Chocolate flecked Pumpkin seed Cookies sound divine and are high on my list of cookies to try
Kari @ bite-sized thoughts
December 13, 2013Gorgeous! What an amazing collection. I’ll look forward to posting the link over the next few days, and am sharing it on Facebook now
Sandra
December 13, 2013Awesome – thanks so much for that Kari. I’m looking forward to making your cookies soon
amber
December 13, 2013Hi Sandra,
Thanks for all your hard work putting this together. I’m honored to be included. I shared on my blog, FB, and Twitter.
Have a great Holiday.
-Amber
Sandra
December 13, 2013Thanks so much Amber, I’m honored that you took part!
I can’t wait to try your Double Chocolate Hazelnut cookies – and lots of other allergy-friendly treats and desserts from your blog
Ally @ Om Nom Ally
December 14, 2013Thanks for all your hard work in organising and hosting this collection. I’ve found so many amazing recipes to try for Christmas cookie treats ?
Sandra
December 14, 2013Thanks Amber, I wasn’t quite aware how much work it actually turned out to be haha but that was because I didn’t start baking cookies until a few days ago and my first batch of cookies looked and tasted rather poorly and then the hectic started…
I’m glad you shared your beautiful gingerbread men with us and I am looking forward to participating in your Smoothie OTW event when I come back after Christmas
Heather @Gluten-Free Cat
December 14, 2013I have no idea what to try first! What a beautiful and delicious roundup. Thank you so much for such an inspiring event!
Sandra
December 14, 2013Me too!
After eating all my failed cookies and certainly after the rich German food I’ll be eating over Christmas I’ll be doing a mini fast again in January. Then I will be starting with smoothies and experimenting with raw foods again. So I can join Raw Foods Thursday more regularly
Thanks for all your support Heather
Lauren
December 14, 2013What an awesome list! I can’t wait to give some of these a try!
Sandra
December 14, 2013That’s so kind of you – thanks Lauren!
Looking at your lovely sugar free Vanilla frosting I feel guilty for not having invited you to the party – boohooo me! I linked to your recipe from my Sugar free Baking Tips page though.
If I held the event again next winter would you like to take part?
Sandra
December 14, 2013Thanks for sharing the love Ally
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