Gingerbread Cookies
Healthy ingredients + Yoga inspiration = Cookie WIN!
These healthy gingerbread cookies are chaulked full of good-for-you-ingredients like healing ginger, blackstrap molasses and squash puree to keep the cookies from drying out…a tragedy we gluten-free goddesses know all too well amiright?
These are an easy switch up from your traditional recipe that may have had refined sugars, flour or zero nutritional value. This gingerbread recipe is a good source of vitamin D and iron, two essential building blocks to a healthy diet.
Let me know in the comments below if you tried these out!
xoxo,
PS use this recipe for the icing if you are looking for a healthy alternative to standard icing sugar recipes. Hold back on the water to make sure you don’t make it too runny.
gingerbread men image via here
*A note on Gluten-Free Flour: While there are some great blends are the market today, I like to fall back on my homemade blends courtesy of Bette Hagman. Find some of her blends HERE.
Gingerbread Cookies
Karina Lanting | January 16, 2020
- prep time: 10 minutes
- cook time: 15 minutes
- total time: 60 minutes
Servings: approx 24 cookies
Ingredients:
- ½ cup softened virgin coconut oil or organic butter
- ¼ cup whole cane sugar
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ¼ cup blackstrap molasses
- ½ cup pumpkin or squash puree
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 cups brown rice flour*
- ½ cup tapioca flour*
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 ½ tsp xanthan gum*
- 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ginger powder
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
Method:
- In a medium bowl whisk oil, sugar, syrup, molasses, puree, vanilla, and salt.
- In separate bowl combine dry ingredients. Add the dry to the wet ingredients and mix well with a wooden spoon.
- Form dough into a ball, wrap in waxed paper and refrigerate to chill for 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375℉. Lightly flour surface to roll out dough. Roll out to ¼ inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutter and place on an oiled baking sheet.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and place on a rack to cool.
