Healthy Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

I LOVE cookies. I've said that before but it bears repeating because I really love them.

Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite, however, it's summer time and bikini season (Yikes!) and I'm trying to stuff my face with a little bit less junk these days, but a girl still needs a cookie! I like a soft cookie, rather than a crunchy one and thankfully I prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate which happens to be a little bit better for me (a tiny bit less sugar and fat and more antioxidants).

Tonight instead of trying yet another "healthy cookie" recipe I decided to try my own and I think they came out pretty tasty if I do say so myself. These cookies are gluten free, dairy free, free of refined sugar and are lower in fat and carbs and higher in fiber than "regular" cookies.

Healthy Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 egg

1/4 cup melted coconut oil

1/4 cup apple sauce

1/4 cup honey

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/4 cup almond flour (almond meal)

1/4 cup coconut flour

1/4 cup brown rice flour (the finely ground type)

1/4 cup quinoa flour

1/4 cup ground flax

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 to 1 cup of chocolate chips

Drop rounded tablespoonfuls onto a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees about 10 minutes (or until edges turn golden brown).

I decided to use honey as the "sweetener" because I didn't want to use white sugar and I don't like artificial sweeteners and I have found that baking sweets with Stevia leaves them not tasking quite right. You could probably substitute agave or maple syrup just fine also.