Store-bought cookies may not be a healthy dessert option, but you can whip up a batch of your own baked goodies that are. Indulge sensibly with these cookie recipes that keep the fat and calories in check with natural, quality ingredients.

Apricot jam and bittersweet chocolate ganache add a unique flavor to these cookies.

The nutritional value of traditional chocolate chip cookies is upped by using bittersweet dark chocolate, oat flour, brown rice syrup, and natural almonds.

The sweet spiciness of the crystallized ginger in these cookies complements the dark chocolate.

This shortbread calls for a combination of whole-wheat and traditional flour, and is rich in heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids.

Roll these simple, 70-calorie cookies in sweet vanilla sugar, which you can make by storing two cups of sugar and two split vanilla beans overnight in an airtight container.

Nonfat frozen yogurt and egg whites lighten up this indulgent ice-cream cookie.

Serve these cookies with a glass of milk spiked with pear nectar: The combination of pear and ginger is wonderful.

Although made with a nontraditional flour, these gluten-free hazelnut shortbread bars are comfortingly familiar and crumbly.

Give your cookie tray a whole new dimension by incorporating these chewy bits made with raisins, almonds, and coconut.

Gluten-free and dairy-free (plus egg-free, soy-free, and nut-free), these will please the pickiest dinner guest.

Abstract artist Karen Kimmel, featured in the January/February 2011 issue of Whole Living, says that her mother's dessert recipes are her most precious family heirlooms. Here is one of her favorites.

Huge, craggy, chewy, and delicious, these cookies are guaranteed to become classics in your kitchen. The whole-wheat flour gives them a rich nuttiness; the heft, caramel glow, and generous chunks of hand-chopped chocolate make them irresistible.