Healthy Cinnamon Cookies and My Cooking Workshops

This month, I took a break from my cooking workshops.

I wanted to refresh a bit and rest before starting the autumn workshops that I'm opening right after the holidays.

And, let's be honest, almost everyone is traveling, and those who stayed aren't exactly thinking about how to get their abs to show right now.

I used this month to rest, renovate the blog a little, do a ton of sports (because the "after the holidays" period really pushes you into a corner), and of course, cook and bake.

What should you bake, you ask?

I decided to bake super easy cinnamon cookies using filo dough.

For those who don't know, filo dough comes ready and frozen. It contains no fat at all and can be very suitable for times when we want to maintain a negative or balanced caloric intake.

I admit, in the past, I thought filo dough was full of trans fats and had nothing to do with health—but that's a common mistake.

Filo dough is a paper-thin dough without fat or unhealthy ingredients, and you can create incredibly healthy and diet-friendly pastries from it, like these healthy cinnamon cookies.

These cookies are very easy to prepare, very crispy, and have an intoxicating scent and taste of cinnamon.

 

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How to eat them?

A cinnamon cookie can serve as an energy snack before high-intensity endurance activity like a very long run or a bike ride, thanks to the sugar and white flour which are absorbed quickly and easily.

Or just when you feel like something sweet with your 4 PM coffee.

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Nutritional values by Noam Bachar, clinical dietitian and fitness trainer Noam Bachar

One cookie out of 30 contains:

80 kcal

2g protein

1g fat

16g carbohydrates

A bit about the recipe

In recipes with filo dough, it is customary to grease the dry dough very thoroughly with plenty of oil so it doesn't dry out.

For myself, I prepared cookies without any oil at all. While they were a bit dry the next day, they were still very tasty, and I managed to save 30 calories.

In this recipe, I added 3 tablespoons of oil in total to make the cookies more juicy and tender.

It's your call.

I used brown demerara sugar because of its volume; you can also use coconut sugar which has a slightly nutty flavor.

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Healthy Cinnamon Cookies

Prep time 5 minutes

Cook time 20 minutes

Total time 25 minutes

Servings 30 cookies

Ingredients

• 1 Filo dough, thawed 500g
• 9 tbsp Brown sugar or coconut sugar
• 6 tbsp Cinnamon powder
• 3 tbsp Canola oil
• 3 tbsp Soy milk unsweetened

Instructions

1. Remove the dough from the packaging and spread it out on the counter.
2. Take 4-5 sheets of dough and separate them from the stack.
3. Sprinkle 3 tablespoons of sugar and 2 tablespoons of cinnamon evenly over the 4-5 sheets you separated. Apply only to the top sheet (not between each sheet). It is important to spread it evenly so the cookies turn out consistent.
   
4. Roll the dough halfway from one side.
   
5. Then roll from the other side until the two rolls meet. Set aside.
   
6. Repeat the process with the remaining dough until you have 3 logs of rolled dough.
7. Slice each log into 10 equal pieces.
   
8. Preheat oven to 180°C.
9. Place each cookie on a baking tray.
   
10. In a small bowl, mix the oil and soy milk, and brush each cookie with a little of the mixture.
11. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
12. Then remove from the oven, flip the cookies, and bake for another 3-5 minutes until the sugar coats the cookie on all sides and the dough turns golden brown.
    
13. They stay delicious for about a month in a well-sealed jar.