The Healthiest Chocolate Chip Cookie Ever
The perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe for anyone who is diabetic, gluten intolerant — or both. (Photo: Getty Images)
For people living with diabetes, finding a way to eat well – dutifully monitoring sugar and carbs — while still enjoying your meals is a daily battle. Throw gluten intolerance into the mix and — bam! — a slew of foods like bread, pasta, and baked goods are instantly eliminated from the menu.
Now, imagine you are 7 years old — carefully maneuvering the complicated dietary restrictions of both diabetes and celiac disease and snack time in your first-grade class.
(Photo: Courtesy of the Ellis family)
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Meet Ava Ellis, from Boise, Idaho. The pint-sized Recipe Rehab fan and aspiring chef reached out to us with this exact dilemma. Is it possible to make a chocolate chip cookie that I — and all of my friends — can enjoy, she asked? Chef Vikki to the rescue! The resourceful chef employed her smartest swaps to build a chocolate chip cookie recipe that passed Ava’s dietary test, while also being delicious enough that her whole class gobbled them up.
The verdict? We’ll let Ava answer that one.
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Whether you’re living with diabetes, have celiac, or are simply looking for a better-for-you cookie recipe, look no further!
Ava’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yields: 20 cookies
Ingredients:
1/2 cup unsalted organic almond butter (homemade or Living Tree Community Foods Organic Roasted Almond Butter)
2 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoons honey
1/3 cup almond flour
1/2 cup cooked quinoa
1 tablespoons hemp seeds
1/3 cup bittersweet mini chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place all of the ingredients in a large bowl, mix and scoop out with a spoon onto a prepared baking sheet. Bake for 20 – 25 minutes. Let cool.
Enjoy with a big glass of unsweetened almond milk!
Nutritional information (Per Serving: 1 cookie): Calories: 80, Total Sugars: 3 g, Total Fat: 5 g, Saturated Fat: 1 g, Cholesterol: 0 mg, Protein: 2 g, Carbohydrate: 8 g, Dietary Fiber: 1 g, Sodium: 0 mg
By Everyday Health Staff
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