Healthy Jello Muffin Top Cookies
What’s sweet and fruity, soft and chewy? These Jello Muffin Top Cookies of course! Each color has its own flavor — from orange to raspberry to peach to blue-raspberry.
This was a recipe that I baked on the fly. Totally not like me, because I am incredibly orderly and try to schedule everything in my life. But I am really glad that I made these Healthy Jello Muffin Top Cookies because they were super fun to make and everybody adored them. Personally, I didn’t really see what everyone’s hype was all about, I thought the cookies were good, not great… I guess I was in a chocolate mood that day?
ANYWAYS.
Everyone said these Muffin Top Cookies were addicting and the entire batch was finished in a single day!
Before being split into separate bowls for the different jello mixes and flavor add-ins, the base cookie recipe starts off with main ingredients such as oat flour and applesauce. The oat flour adds a chewy cookie feel along with a comforting, hearty flavor. Oh, and some whole grains, fiber, and protein too! The applesauce adds a lot of moisture to the cookies without the need for butter or oil. I also used an egg replacer powder to make these vegan, but if you’d rather use eggs, you can probably substitute it with a whole egg and reduce the almond milk by ¼ cup!
Top to Bottom: Blue-Raspberry, Orange, Raspberry, Peach
Chewy like a cookie, soft like a muffin top. Incredibly fruity like the fruit itself and bursting with natural color, no artificial flavorings and artificial food colorings here!
Healthy Jello Muffin Top Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 tbs Ener-G Egg Replacer
- ½ cup + 2 tbs Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- 82g (⅓ cup) Unsweetened Applesauce
- 1½ tsp Liquid Stevia Extract
- 1 tsp Natural Butter Flavor
- 120g (1 cup) Oat Flour
- 120g (¾ cup) Brown Rice Flour
- 2 tsp Double-Acting Baking powder
- ½ tsp Salt
For the Raspberry + Blue-Raspberry Flavor:
- 3 tbs All-Natural Raspberry Jello Powder
- 20 drops Natural Red Food Coloring
- ½ tsp Natural Raspberry Flavor
- 5 drops Natural Blue Food Coloring
- ¼ tsp Natural Blueberry Flavor
For the Orange Flavor:
- 3 tbs All-Natural Orange Jello Powder
- 15 drops Natural Yellow Food Coloring
- ½ tsp Orange Flavor
For the Peach Flavor:
- 3 tbs All-Natural Peach Jello Powder
- 10 drops Natural Yellow Food Coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the egg replacer, almond milk, applesauce and extracts.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the oat flour, brown rice flour, baking powder and salt. Dump over the wet ingredients and fold together. Dough should be light and fluffy kind of like a muffin batter.
For the Raspberry + Blue-Raspberry Flavors:
- Divide the entire dough into half and add the rasperry jel desert powder, red food coloring and raspberry extract. Stir together until soft and pink.
- Divide the halved dough into another half. Use a cookie scoop to portion the double-halved dough onto the prepared cookie sheet. Bake for ~11 minutes or until the surface springs back when tapped. Slide the cookies off the pan and onto a wire cooling rack.
- Add the blue food coloring and blueberry extract to the other quarter of the dough. Use a cookie scoop to portion the dough onto the prepared cookie sheet and bake for ~11 minutes.
For the Orange Flavor:
- Add the orange jel desert powder, orange food coloring and orange flavor to ¼ of the dough. Stir together until thoroughly mixed.
- Use a cookie scoop to portion the dough onto the prepared cookie sheet and bake for ~11 minutes.
For the Peach Flavor:
- Add the peach jel desert and orange food coloring to the last ¼ of the dough. Stir together until thoroughly mixed.
- Use a cookie scoop to portion the dough onto the prepared cookie sheet and bake for ~11 minutes.
I’ve gotta admit, these Jello Muffin Top Cookies are pretty darn adorable. Maybe that’s why everyone loved them so much? You definitely will too!
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With love and good eats,
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– Jess
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Indulge − no strings attached!
So colorful and beautiful, looks amazing.
But, if there is any kind of gelatin in it, it’s not vegan. gelatin comes from cow cartilage. Unless you used some substance that works like gelatin that isn’t made from animals?
Melissa, there is no gelatin used… the jel desert I used is vegan and made with pectin.
What do you use for your jel dessert and natural colouring? are there specific brands you use?
great colors!
omg these are so cool!
Do you have nutrition facts for these cookies? Also, where do I get things like oat flour, peanut flour, brown rice flour etc…. I notice these ingredients listed in your recipes. Thanks!
I didn’t calculate the nutrition facts for this recipe but if you want to make a nutrition label for yourself, this is the program I use:
http://www.shopncook.com/nutritionFactsLabel.html
I link to the products I use in the recipe (the ingredients that are underlined have a link to them). I usually buy in bulk and online (at Amazon or iHerb) to save money 🙂
Hope this helps! 🙂
-Jess