Crispy Gingerbread Cookies (Grain-free & Vegan)

December 23, 2018 • Dessert • gluten-free, grain-free, paleo, vegan • No comments

Looking for a healthy, and festive dessert for this holiday season? These cookies are perfect for you! Not only are they delicious, but they’re grain-free, paleo-friendly, vegan, and refined sugar-free. I like decorating mine with dried fruits and oat flakes, but you could decorate with icing if you’d like the more traditional look!

Ingredients

Dry ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups almond flour
• 1/4 cup arrow root starch (plus more to cover your table surface)
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp Himalayan pink salt
• 1/4 tsp baking soda

Wet ingredients:

• 2 tbsp melted coconut oil
• 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
• 1 tbsp coconut nectar

Optional toppings:

• Oat flakes
• Dried fruits (dried cranberries, raisins etc.)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a bowl combine the dry ingredients.
3. Once the dry ingredients are thoroughly combined, mix in the wet ingredients.
4. Once the dough is mixed nicely, place the bowl with the dough in the freezer for 30 minutes to firm up.
5. After 30 min, remove the dough from the freezer and use arrowroot starch on your counter surface to roll out the dough and cut out cookies with whatever shapes you’d like such as gingerbread men, snowflakes and Christmas trees.
6. Decorate your cookies with dry ingredients such as oat flakes, dried fruits and mixed nuts.
7. Place cookies on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes.

*This recipe makes about 20 cookies but it depends on how thin you roll them out. Watch them closely in the oven, if they’re thin bake them 8 min. If they’re thicker or you want them crispier bake for 12 min.