Happy Wednesday guys!
These cookies taste like a classic ginger cookie with a rich chocolatey twist. Made with healthy, clean ingredients like coconut flour, cacao, cinnamon and of course ginger.
What's healthy about ginger?
Well to name a few health benefits, ginger is a potent immune booster, it reduces inflammation and pain, it improves diabetes, it helps normalize metabolism and digestion contributing to weight loss, and it helps fight cancer.
I love giving you guys recipes that are guilt-free sweet treats. That’s sort of a common theme of my foodie blog posts here on steemit.
Guilt-Free Sweet Treats
Well what does this really mean? It means these treats have low calories, they’re made of only healthy ingredients (meaning no added bull****), and they also taste like your favourite sweet treats.
Eating healthy shouldn't mean missing out
I wanted to create these recipes because eating healthy shouldn’t mean that you have to miss out on all your favourite foods. And this shouldn’t deter you from eating healthy either. So my solution is providing healthy recipes that encourage you to stay on a healthy track, and also taste like you’re still getting all your favourite treats.
Your suggestions
If there are any favourite treats of yours that you would like me to turn into one of my healthy guilt-free sweet treat recipes, let me know in the comments. I’d be happy to do that :)
Okay onto these chocolate ginger cookies
Ingredients
1 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ginger
1.5 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 cup coconut oil melted
2 eggs (use 1 mashed banana or 1 chia egg to make vegan)
1/2 cup maple syrup
Toppings
Cacao nibs
Unsweetened coconut shreddings
Directions
Preheat your oven to 350 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl. Then, in a separate bowl, combine your melted coconut oil, maple syrup, and eggs (or banana/chia egg). Then pour your dry ingredients into your wet ingredients and mix until well combined.
Then place 2 tbsp of batter for each cookie onto your baking sheet. Add your toppings and bake for 10 minutes at 350 F. Let cool for a few minutes. And you're all done. This recipe yields about 14 cookies, at 108 calories per cookie.
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And for more of my clean and healthy recipes click the links below:
Green Mint Chocolate Chip Smoothie
Banana Nut Butter Crepes
Cinnamon Chia Overnight Oats
Zucchini Fritters and Homemade Tzatziki
Mint Chocolate Coconut Bark
Strawberry Partfait Bars
Vegan Pizza and Homemade Pesto
Raw Chocolate Fudge Bites
Double Chocolate Banana Muffins a.k.a Chocolate Banana Bread
Chocolate Avocado Pudding
Chocolate Sweet Potato Brownies
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Donuts
Sources:
https://draxe.com/10-medicinal-ginger-health-benefits/
https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/nutrition/2010/03/22/heres_why_maple_syrup_is_very_good_for_your_health.html
https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/maple-syrup.html
http://blog.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/2014/11/02/pour-it-on-maple-syrup-is-good-for-you/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/foodbeast/maple-syrup_b_5128955.html
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/nutrition-pure-maple-syrup-vs-honey-1756.html
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20464527,00.html#youth-booster-0
http://ilovemaple.ca/health/scientific-discoveries
Definitely going to have to give this recipe a try since I'm gluten sensitive. Thank you have a blessed day!
Great, let me know how it goes :)
loving it.... like...... a lot
Thanks!
good post girl
Thanks @gunsmasterrock!
Great post @natashall. The cookies look fantastic, I really must try your recipe. I definitely am following you for your originality. X
Thanks so much!
Beautiful recipe and all great healthy ingredients.
Thanks! Glad you like it :)
No fluff, I need your honest opinion.....Do they taste good?
Yeah, I liked them lol :)
my wife makes stuff that is low fat sometimes and I am alway skeptical. LOL
Oh I see. Yeah that's why I started looking into ingredients labels. I wanted to really understand what was going into my food. And once I had done that for the better part of two years, I started developing recipes. You should get her to try these :)
you cool @natshahall,i like it
Thank you @rsphotowork :)
perfect food for a perfect vacation... upvoting it..
Thanks for the feedback :)
Thanks!! I will certain... ... ask my wife to try to make these :)
But in all seriousness, very good post and I agree on the uses and health benefits of Ginger - we make Ginger tea esp over a cold winter night, it just keeps you warm!
Cheers!
@watch-chronolog
Thanks! Let me know how it goes :) I love a hot ginger tea on a cold night.
Que rico!
Gracias! :)
It's looks nice! :D
Thanks hun!
Looks like these would be great
Thanks :)
Wow amazing shots and recipe dear! I'm enjoying your post each and everytime cause i'm learning quite a lot of new things here!
Cheers
@progressivechef
Wow thank you for the lovely feedback! :)
Yum . Up-voted and Followed. I'm a Canadian too !
Thanks! Yay a Canadian :) I've followed you too
Those look delicious, Natasha! I read your Niagara Falls post last week and just noticed I still had the tab open. I went to Brock so I spent quite a bit of time in the falls during my time there, it is really nice. Anyways, Niagara Falls aside, I will now be following you for your recipes! I am slowly transitioning over to a vegetarian diet so I am sure I will enjoy some of them =) I also like to create new recipes and plan on eventually posting some on here! Cheers!
Thank you! That's great! I've considered going vegetarian many times myself :) I've followed you too and look forward to seeing your future recipes.
Awesome, thanks =)
Hi there, @natashahall, and thanks for sharing your recipe. However, maple syrup is still sugar, so it isn't actually a sugar-free recipe. If you look at all the processed sugars sold commercially in the U.S., molasses has the highest antioxidant content. It's still devoid of fiber, however. Best of all is a whole food sugar, e.g., date sugar. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-healthiest-sweetener/
Hi @innerlight, thanks for commenting. I think you'll find that we're looking at two different definitions of sugar here. There's the ingredient sugar, derived from the cane plant and often processed, and then there's sugar molecules, a chemical compound found in many fruits and vegetables in their natural state.
Maple syrup contains sugar molecules such as sucrose, fructose and glucose, however it does not contain the ingredient sugar (derived from the cane plant). Maple syrup is very low in the sugar molecules that break down quickly in the body like fructose and glucose. And high in the molecules that break down gradually in the body, sucrose (which are much better for you).
Sugar as a processed ingredient, not the molecule, is not present here. That's what I'm referring to, as far as it being sugar-free. I should have clarified that. And this type of sugar is processed so that all that's left is the simple sugars (that break down very quickly in the body) and are in fact not very good for you.
And yes, definitely dates are a wonderful natural sweetener. I incorporated this into my chocolate avocado pudding recipe a few posts back :) But I think you'll see that the amount of sugar (from the sugar molecules) in dates is about 4.5 g per date, which is the same as in one tsp of maple syrup. And both are low in simple sugars, break down very gradually in the body, and are very healthy natural sweeteners. The main difference being the fiber content in dates which is higher.
Thanks for taking the time to check out my recipe and comment. Cheers!
Thank you for the thoughtful response. However, the body recognizes maple syrup and sugar both equally as sugar and processes them much in the same way. The fiber in date "sugar" and in other fruits actually helps blunt the insulin/blood sugar spike and provides many other benefits as well. If you like maple syrup, that's the reason to eat it, but it definitely is not a health food.
Which body is this?
I'm afraid I would have to disagree. And there are many sources to support my claim that organic maple syrup is in fact a health food. All the best :)
Sources:
https://draxe.com/maple-syrup-nutrition/
https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/nutrition/2010/03/22/heres_why_maple_syrup_is_very_good_for_your_health.html
https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/maple-syrup.html
http://blog.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/2014/11/02/pour-it-on-maple-syrup-is-good-for-you/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/foodbeast/maple-syrup_b_5128955.html
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/nutrition-pure-maple-syrup-vs-honey-1756.html
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20464527,00.html#youth-booster-0
Unfortunately, this is why people are so confused about what's healthy and what's not, because they don't know the difference between "health" hype (all of your listed sources) and credible science. Please check the link I referenced, which is backed by the research of 20 scientists combing through the latest peer-reviewed scientific literature.
You’re completely entitled to your opinion here from your research :)
This study appears to only be based on one variable: antioxidants. But I think that there are many other health factors involved when comparing these sweeteners. I would have to look at the actual studies that the claim in this video is based on to assess whether or not I believe this would mean that maple syrup is a health food or not.
Thank you for your input.
Following because of the love of chocolate! Resteemit because it is healthy!
Thanks @weetreebonsai! Appreciate it :)
Looking forward to trying these. Thanks!
You're welcome! :)
This is fantastic and I love its ingenuity.
Aw thank you!
welcome:)
excellent recipe ! My favorite ginger property is malabsorption ! because its where everything starts and ends! 😉
Thank you! Yes, great point!
That cookie looks awesome. I want to try and make it one day.
Thanks! Let me know how it goes :)
Yum!! These look delicious.
Thank you! :)
Looks good ! I see you have a lot of great post, keep up the good work :)
Thanks @leneg :)