30 cookies light recipes

Peanut pie with a shortbread cookie crust bound by peanut butter, packed with peanut butter cookies and roasted peanuts in a gooey brown sugar custard. Triple peanut, double cookie.

Caramel nut thumbprint cookies combine cocoa dough rolled in pecans with gooey caramel centers. A holiday cookie-tray favorite with chocolate, nut, and caramel in one bite.

This frozen peanut butter pie has a crunchy chocolate crust and is served with warm caramel sauce.

Low-fat oatmeal raisin cookies built on applesauce instead of butter, with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and orange zest. Soft, chewy, and warmly spiced.

Mrs Fields apple cobbler cookies loaded with chopped Granny Smith apples, apple butter, raisins, and pecans, rolled in a cinnamon-oat crumb coating. Fall baking at its finest.

Creamy maple-sweetened sweet potato casserole topped with a crunchy brown sugar and pecan streusel. The Thanksgiving side dish that steals the show from the turkey every year.

A rustic free-form peach pie heaped with juicy peaches and brandy-plumped cherries over a layer of toasted almonds, the pastry folded loosely over the top and dusted with cinnamon sugar. Juicy and golden.

Turn leftover turkey into crispy corn tortilla tacos loaded with a spicy tomato-onion filling, mashed avocado crema, shredded lettuce, and Monterey Jack. A healthy post-Thanksgiving dinner in under 40 minutes.

Classic chewy oatmeal cookies loaded with raisins, walnuts, and a hint of cinnamon. Brown sugar and butter-flavored shortening keep them soft and bendy long after they cool.

Meat filled green peppers in a spicy tomato cream sauce. A hand me down family recipe that I have greatly modified & finally written down.

Cinnamon oatmeal apple cookies fold grated apple, raisins, and whipped egg whites into an oat batter sweetened with apple juice or honey. Soft, lightly spiced, naturally low-fat cookies.

Gourmet chocolate chip cookies use both light and dark brown sugar with optional ground coriander for warm depth. Big quarter-cup-sized cookies with semi-sweet chips and walnuts. Makes 3 dozen.

Oatmeal raisin cookies with rolled oats, plump raisins, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Chewy in the middle, lightly crisp at the edges, gone in minutes.

Chewy coconut almond macaroons made with homemade almond paste, ground coconut, and egg whites. Naturally gluten-free, crisp on the outside, soft in the middle. Makes 3 to 4 dozen.

Boston cookies are an old-fashioned drop cookie with cinnamon, raisins and chopped walnuts in a simple butter-sugar base. Soft in the middle, lightly chewy at the edges, ready in 30 minutes.

Three-layer chocolate caramel bars with a fudgy brownie base, gooey pecan caramel topping, and a lacy semi-sweet chocolate drizzle. Makes 54 bars that store beautifully for 10 days. Think homemade turtle candy in cookie bar form.