These healthier chocolate chip cookie bars are made with a combination of coconut sugar and stevia, along with other naturally sweet ingredients. Each bar contains less than five grams of sugar!
Low sugar cookies that taste good!
I’ve been a bit obsessed with cookie bars ever since I created this recipe.
It’s one of my favorite low sugar treats on the blog, and I’ve been making variations of it ever since.
Today’s recipe is a bit more ‘slimmed down’ in that the ingredients list is not as finicky in terms of what you more likely to have in your pantry. I’m not sure many people have wheat germ laying around any more!
These healthier chocolate chip cookie bars are truly a LOW SUGAR treat that you can feel good about eating, and they clock in at less than five grams of sugar per bar!
How to make low sugar chocolate chip cookie bars
These bars are sweetened with a combination of coconut sugar and stevia, NO artificial nasties!
In addition, they employ naturally sweet ingredients, like oats, applesauce, and vanilla, which helps to sweeten without actually adding in more sugar.
I like to use my Homemade Coconut Milk in these, which lends more natural sweetness.
We top these with a combination of unsweetened chopped chocolate and a 70% dark chocolate bar. This allows the bars to have an extra boost of sweetness, while moderating it with the sugarless chocolate. My kids never even notice! They just see chocolate and get sucked into the illusion, lol. 🙂 …and they’re better off for it.
Healthier Chocolate Chip Cookies Bars with Stevia
Ingredients
DRY INGREDIENTS:
- 1 1/4 cup oat flour
- 1/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 Tbsp coconut sugar
WET INGREDIENTS:
- 3 Tbsp coconut or olive oil (or a combination of the two!) melted/in liquid state
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup milk of your choice
- stevia to taste
- chopped chocolate or chocolate chips as desired
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients together.
- Stir in the wet ingredients until everything is well combined. I don't tend to mix these separate, I just add them right in!
- Add in some stevia at this point, if you want the bars sweeter. I usually add 10-15 drops.
- Spread the batter into a well-oiled 8 x 8 inch baking dish.
- Top with as much chocolate as you like.
- Bake 9-12 minutes, until top feels set to the touch. Don't overbake or it will be dry!
- Cool, cut into bars, and enjoy your low sugar treat!
Notes
Nutrition
Notes:
If you’re averse to the egg yolk, some substitutions I’ve had success with include: one tablespoon nut or seed butter, one extra tablespoon oil, one extra tablespoon milk. Note that these substitutions lead to a more crumbly bar, as the egg helps bind everything.
This is the stevia I most enjoy (and the purest I’ve found!).
Some of the items I use in this recipe include:
Recipe steps:
Mixing the dry ingredients…
Adding in the wet ingredients…
Mixing the batter…
Into the baking dish…
Top with chocolate!
Post-bake…
Lyf says
Hi Lauren, I made these bars and they turned out looking exactly like yours and tasted delicious. I substituted a chia egg for the egg yolk, added only 2 tablespoons of oil and used 1
extra tablespoon of milk and minus the stevia. The sugar levels were perfect and the choc chips sprinkled on the top made them taste indulgent without tipping the scales. These were a hit and I can’t wait to try more of your cookie bar recipes.
Lauren says
That’s great, Lyf! I love when someone tries (and likes) my low sugar recipes. 🙂
Lee Rosenthal says
Can these be made with fresh diced fruit or berries or dried fruit instead of chocolate?
Lauren says
Hi Lee,
That should be fine!
Begum Karim says
Thanks so much for sharing such beautiful recipes. I have done that too mixing coconut sugar and Stevia, now I am looking into other sweetners like erithrytol, monk fruit but I may stay true to coconut sugar and Stevia! I am going to use ground flax seeds in place of eggs. I have been a long term follower .
Lauren says
Thanks so much, Begum, I hope you like these if you try them!
Josephine says
This recipe sounds delicious! Can other flours be used like coconut or almond without sacrificing consistency and taste? I dont have oat flour on hand. Thanks!
Lauren says
Thanks Josephine! I’m not sure, as I haven’t tried other flours, but the almond would be the best choice, in my experience. 🙂