Deliciously soft, these healthy, gluten-free, 12-ingredient, Peppermint Cookies are perfect for holiday gifting and for breakfast too!
These peppermint cookies are delicious, healthy, and gluten-free. They are just as good to enjoy for breakfast or at your holiday cookie swap or just because.
What are the ingredients in these peppermint cookies?
The 12 ingredients in these cookies are:
- Peanut Butter
- Coconut Oil
- Brown Sugar
- Eggs
- Flax Meal
- All-Purpose Gluten Free Flour
- Rolled Oats
- Pure Vanilla Extract
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Chopped Pecans
- Peppermint Baking Chips, such as Ghirardelli
I recently brought home a bag of Ghirardelli peppermint baking chunks, and I’ve been helpless around them.
Almost as helpless as my doggos get around a jar of these Sweet Potato Peanut Butter Treats!
I’m sitting here thinking how did I not try these in years past, but I don’t recall seeing these at any of the grocery stores I frequent…
By the way, this is not a sponsored post. These are just the rantings of a food blogger in a peppermint chunk foodie coma!
When I picked up a bag of these peppermint baking chunks, my intentions were to bake up all things peppermint.
I envisioned peppermint scones, peppermint muffins, peppermint bars, and even remaking these peppermint bites.
But, before I knew it, that bag of peppermint chunks was half full. If I had rats at home, I’d blame them – but, snacking on handfuls every time I got a cup of coffee is the main culprit.
Why are these peppermint cookies considered healthy?
I made these Peppermint Cookies Recipe with a combination of peanut butter and coconut oil instead of butter.
They are packed with wholesome oats, flax, and pecans for a nutritional kick.
By the miracle that is baking, that peanut butter taste doesn’t seem to overwhelm the peppermint flavor in these cookies — kind of like in these Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies.
After eating all those handfuls of peppermint chunks, I was trying to set the nutritional scales in balance again by cramming as much better-for-me stuff as I could into these Peppermint Cookies.
These cookies also have a handful of pecan pieces thrown in, making them a tasty texture-rific treat.
With this ingredient list, you could even enjoy these Peppermint Cookies for breakfast — it is the season for holiday cheer after all, right?
By the way, this recipe first appeared on Food Fanatic ~ If you are looking for holiday eats and treats, please do head on over to Food Fanatic for ideas!
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
- 3 tablespoons Coconut Oil melted
- 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1/4 cup Flax Meal
- 1/2 cup All-Purpose Gluten Free Flour
- 1 cup Rolled Oats
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 cup Chopped Pecans
- 1/2 cup Peppermint Baking Chips such as Ghirardelli
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Place peanut butter and coconut oil in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds until both are runny. Mix them well with a whisk.
- Then add in brown sugar and mix well with whisk.
- Add in the eggs and whisk well.
- Then add in the flax meal, gluten free flour, rolled oats, vanilla extract, baking powder, and salt and whisk together.
- Chop up the pecan pieces and peppermint chunks and add these to the other ingredients as well and whisk well. The dough will be wet but won’t stick to your hands.
- Using a spoon and your hand, form spoonsfuls of dough into rough circles and place on parchment lined baking tray or silpat lined baking tray.
- Bake at 350°F for 12 minutes.
- Let cool and enjoy!
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Love peppermint any time of year, but especially now! And I would totally eat these for breakfast with milk and coffee…hey, I’m going all out (it is the holidays after all 😉 ). Can’t wait to give these a try, Shashi! Have an awesome week ahead, my friend!
How have I never encountered those peppermint baking chunks before? That’s probably a good thing because I guarantee they wouldn’t last long enough for me to bake with them :). These cookies look AWESOME and I’m going to have to check out those baking chunks at the store tomorrow. Have a great week, Shashi!
Peppermint baking chunks, eh? I can’t say I’ve seen those in stores either…but you bet I’m going to be looking now! I love peppermint flavored treats around the holidays, and these cookies sound like they’re right up my alley. Nice and chewy and packed with flavor. I’ll have to tell Robbie that Santa requests a dozen of these cookies this year! 🙂
They look and sound so good with peanut butter and coconut oil.