These are the BEST low sodium cookies! I have 2 secret ingredients and 1 that actually wasn’t planned! They are BANANA EXTRACT and coconut oil! SO DELICIOUS!! This will become your go to recipe and you’ll in fact never hunt another cookie recipe to satisfy that sweet tooth! “Low Sodium Cookie Recipe”
You will not be able to tell that these cookies have a low mg of sodium. A lot of sodium free cookies have unsalted butter in the recipe, instead of regular salted butter.
BUT, I replaced the butter for coconut oil! A couple of months ago I had to start a dairy free diet, but I wanted some cookies and my first batch was with butter.
Next time, I made these cookies with coconut oil and I could not believe the difference in taste! These cookies are so soft in the middle, but crispy on the outside! I’ll always make these cookies with coconut oil from now on! YUMMY!
So many cookie recipes can be created healthier by a few changes or exchanges made in the simple ingredients.
How to create healthy cookie recipes! And, how to create keto cookies!
- Exchange the regular butter with an unsalted butter or coconut oil
- Replace the regular white flour with almond flour (Almond flour chocolate chip cookies)
- Exchange the brown sugar with sugar alternatives
- Exchange the regular chocolate chips with sugar free chocolate chips that don’t have the added sugar
- For low-fat chocolate chip cookies reduce or cut in half the amount of chocolate chips in a recipe
Can I leave salt out of cookie recipe? Yes, if you are on a low-sodium diet you can leave the salt out of your cookie recipe and still have delicious recipes.
How do you reduce salt in cookies? You can either leave the salt out of the recipe completely or you can cut the salt amount in half of a regular cookie recipe.
Is baking powder reduced sodium OK for cookies? Yes, you can use a sodium free baking powder. There is one made by Ener-g brand that will work for low-sodium cookies for those individuals who are on a low sodium diet.
What goes into low sodium cookies?
- coconut oil or unsalted butter
- brown sugar
- large eggs
- banana extract
- all-purpose flour
- baking soda
- white chocolate chips or chunks
- vanilla wafers (crushed)
What do I need to make low sodium cookies?
- large bowl
- wooden spoon
- parchment paper – if you don’t have any parchment paper, then be sure to spray your baking sheet with oil
- cookie sheet or baking sheet
- cooling rack
- cookie scoop or a tablespoon
How do I make a low sodium cookie recipe? Scroll down for printable recipe version
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Add a sheet of parchment paper to a baking sheet
- Gather supplies and recipe ingredients
- Take a large bowl and add the room temperature coconut oil, the oil needs to be liquid
- Add brown sugar, eggs and banana extract, mix until smooth
- Add the dry ingredients of all-purpose flour, and baking soda, mix well
- Fold in white chocolate chips and crushed vanilla wafers
- Take cookie dough and roll into 1 tablespoon size dough ball or scoop up a tablespoon size with a cookie scoop and place on parchment paper
- Place the little balls at least 1 inch apart and gently press down a little bit the top of the cookie so they will flatten out.
- Bake for approximately 10 minutes or until golden brown
- Then, place onto a cooling rack and allow to cool
Low Sodium Cookie Recipe: Banana White Chocolate Chip
These delicious Banana white chocolate chip cookies have 2 secret ingredients! Banana extract and coconut oil, which makes the cookies crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of melted coconut oil
- 1 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 tsp banana extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder sodium free or 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 cups white chocolate chips or chunks
- 1 1/2 cups vanilla wafers (crushed)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Add a sheet of parchment paper to a baking sheet
- Gather supplies and recipe ingredients
- Take a large bowl and add the room temperature coconut oil, the oil needs to be liquid
- Add brown sugar, eggs and banana extract, mix until smooth
- Add the dry ingredients of all-purpose flour, and baking soda, mix well
- Fold in white chocolate chips and crushed vanilla wafers
- Take cookie dough and roll into 1 tablespoon size dough ball or scoop up a tablespoon size with a cookie scoop and place on parchment paper
- Place the little balls at least 1 inch apart and gently press down a little bit the top of the cookie so they will flatten out.
- Bake for approximately 10 minutes or until golden brown
- Then, place onto a cooling rack and allow to cool
Low Sodium S’mores Cookies!
How do I store cookies? After the cookies have completely cooled, place them into an airtight container for up to 4 days.
How do you keep cookies crisp when storing? To keep cookies crispy you will need to place them into an airtight container and some experts say to add a piece of bread, so that the bread will absorb any excess moisture in the container. This allow the cookies to stay crisp
You can also bake the cookies at 300 degrees for a few minutes for crispy cookies.
Can I freeze cookies? Yes, you can freeze cookies up to 3 months. They are delicious frozen!
Should I refrigerate cookies? No, you do not need to refrigerate your cookies. Keeping them in the refrigerator will make the cookie soft.
What other kind of low sodium cookies can I make? You can leave out the chocolate chips and then you have an oatmeal cookie recipe. Or, you can add some Jif natural peanut butter and have healthy peanut butter cookies.
There are also recipes for low sodium lemon cookies with real lemon juice and ginger cookies.
So, next time that the whole family wants a batch of cookies, make these cookies. They will soon become personal favorites of the entire family and will be the best dessert that you can make!
Other Low Sodium cookie recipes!
Low sodium chocolate chip oatmeal cookies
Easy Low sodium lemon white chocolate chip cookies
Try some of our other Easy Recipes!
- Cookies and Cream Oreo Brownies
- Easy 1 Bowl Brownies
- Lemon Bars
- Cranberry White Chocolate Pecan Cookies
- 4 Ingredient Banana Pudding
- S’mores Cookies
- Peanut Butter S’mores Bars
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