White Chocolate Cranberry Pistachio Cookies

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Yield: About 30 small cookies
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 12 minutes

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  • 15 mins
  • 30 mins

Ingredients

  • mix ins:
  • 1/2 cup dried sweetened cranberries
  • 1/2 cup shelled pistachios
  • 1/2 cup vegan white chocolate chips (or vegan chocolate chips if you can’t find the vegan white ones)
  • dry ingredients:
  • 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
  • pinch salt
  • wet ingredients:
  • 1 cup unsweetened So Delicious coconut milk
  • 1/4 cup mashed banana
  • 2 tablespoons ground flax mixed with 4 tablespoons warm water
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • powdered sugar, optional

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. And grease 2 cookies sheets (or cover with parchment paper).

Combine the mix ins in a food processor and process until chopped small. Set aside.

Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet in another. Add the dry mixture to the wet and mix well. Fold in the contents of the food processor (the chips, nuts and cranberries) to the cookie batter.

Using a small cookie scoop, about 1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons, scoop out the cookies on the cookie sheet. Bake for 10 to 14 minutes or until golden brown.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar if you want to make them pretty. You can make some powdered stevia by mixing Nu-stevia with cornstarch.

While these cookies have no added oil and you could leave out the white chocolate chips to make them truly fat-free. They would taste just as good.

Looking to make them sugar-free? In place of the brown sugar try adding 1/4 teaspoon of stevia at a time to your batter until it’s just sweet enough. You want to go slow with this since a tad too much stevia makes a nasty and bitter cookie! You’ll also need to add a little more bulk so add 1/4 cup extra flour or ground oats to the batter to make it thick enough to scoop. (If you are using something that measures like sugar you won’t need to make any adjustments.)

Without the white chocolate chips or powdered sugar (sorry – I can’t find the nutrition info on them online)

1 cookie has:

Calories: 59.7
Total Fat: 1.4 g
Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
Sodium: 39.3 mg
Total Carbs: 12.4 g
Dietary Fiber: 1.3 g
Protein: 1.2 g

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