10 Healthy Cookie Recipes for Fall

Bite into this cookie to find a creamy pumpkin surprise nestled in the middle! This vegan-friendly confection serves up an explosion of chocolate and pumpkin flavors and costs you only 75 calories per cookie.

Ingredients:
3/4 c. white whole-wheat flour
6 tbsp. plus 1 tsp. cocoa powder
Scant 1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 c. plus 2 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. maple syrup or agave
2 tbsp. nondairy milk
1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
3 tbsp. plus 1 tsp. oil
3 tbsp. pureed pumpkin
3 tbsp. nut butter of choice
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 packet stevia (or 1/2 tbsp. sugar)
1/8 tsp. pure vanilla extract

Directions:
Preheat oven to 330 degrees. Combine the first 5 ingredients and mix very well. Add ingredients 6-9 and mix again to form dough. In a separate bowl, combine all other ingredients to make the filling. Using about a heaping tablespoon of dough, roll into a ball and then flatten. Place a little scoop of the filling in the center and fold up the sides of the dough. Form into a ball. Bake for about 10 minutes. Cookies should be a little undercooked when you take them out. Let stand 10 minutes.

Makes 18-20 big cookies

Recipe provided by Chocolate-Covered Katie