Low-Fat Bar & Cookie Recipes

Coconut oil stands in for butter in this dairy-free, eggless cookie recipe for completely mouthwatering gingerbread cut-outs. Decorate cookies with a simple vegan icing or sanding sugar.

Add dried apricots, currants, and chopped walnuts to oatmeal cookies for a delicious treat.

A lemony date filling makes oatmeal cookies more special.

Holiday cookies don't get any cuter than these mini gingerbread houses that kids and adults alike will love. Use a mini gingerbread house cookie cutter to cut out all the parts (the kids will love helping with this part), then build the houses and let the kids go to town decorating. Line up your finished creations to make a gingerbread house village, eat them up or prop them up on mugs of cocoa for dipping and munching.

These brownies are a high-energy treat you can pack in your lunch bag or tuck into your fanny pack when you are out walking. Wrap cooled brownies individually for fast picnic assembly or lunchbox fill-ups.

These diabetic-friendly chocolaty macaroons are low in sugar yet sure to satisfy your sweet-tooth.

These pinwheel cookies are filled with a yummy apricot-ginger filling and rolled in chopped pistachios before they are sliced and baked.

Suit your taste by using your choice of almond or mint extract for these crisp cookies.

These fruity cookies have the taste of sweet plums and almonds.

Packed with dried cranberries and low-fat granola, these firm bars are excellent travelers, full of complex carbohydrates, vitamins and trace minerals.

Full of oats, nuts and raisins, these chewy oatmeal raisin cookies can be enjoyed any day of the week.

Orange zest, cinnamon and almonds lend these figgy treats a sophisticated flavor.

These Red Velvet Whoopie Pies are fun to make and delicious! Prepare for your next party, a bake sale or just as a fun weekend treat.

These festive sugar cookies are proof that you can add whole-wheat flour to a baked good without anyone ever knowing it. We've replaced some of the butter with healthier canola oil, cutting the saturated fat by about 75%. They freeze well so you may want to consider making extras to have on hand for a sweet treat.

An interpretation of a classic German holiday wafer cookie, these richly spiced cookies are terrific right from the oven when the spices permeate the kitchen, but are even better after a few days as they “age” to a wonderful deep flavor.

Perfect meringues depend on totally yolk-free whites. The seemingly fussy step of separating each egg into a small bowl before combining them guarantees yolk-free whites for bakeshop-quality meringues every time. These crispy little morsels travel well and make great gifts too.

These are so moist and tender, you'll think you're eating the tops of pumpkin muffins.

French novelist and notorious shut-in Marcel Proust was passionate about the plump little cakelike cookies called madeleines. Perhaps the aroma of this chocolate version baking would have drawn him out of his room.

This recipe for the famous pretzel-shaped Scandinavian cookie has been remade so it's lighter but still just as tasty.

Linzer torte, made with a nut crust and filled with raspberry jam, is a favorite treat in Austria. This is a low-calorie, lower-fat version of that classic dessert.

If these devilishly chocolaty cookies don't get gobbled the day they are baked, store them, well-wrapped, in the freezer.

Molasses, ginger, cinnamon and cloves flavor these holiday cookies which have just 73 calories each.

Little oatmeal cookies are rolled in nuts, baked, then filled with jewel-colored fruit preserves for a sweet and pretty treat.

Drizzled with white white chocolate, these twice-baked cookies are an Italian-inspired classic.