Cassava Flour Gingerbread Cookies (Paleo & Gluten Free)
These cassava flour gingerbread cookies can be enjoyed all year round, but they are also fantastic to bake over the holidays, and even to decorate your tree with!
Equipment
- Baking sheet (cookie sheet)
- Oven
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup melted vegan butter (or coconut oil)
- 1/3 cup organic cane sugar (or coconut palm sugar)
- 1/3 cup blackstrap molasses
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/4 cups cassava flour (plus more for dusting)
Instructions
- Heat your oven to 325°F
- Mix all of your dry ingredients together in your stand mixer or a large bowl.
- Add your melted butter, egg, molasses, and vanilla extract to your dry ingredients and mix together thoroughly. The dough will be quite wet and sticky. Using a spatula, scrape the dough down into a ball. Cover your mixing bowl and put your dough in the fridge for at least 15 minutes. This will make it easier to work with.
- On a clean surface, place a large piece of parchment paper down and thoroughly dust it with cassava flour.
- Scrape your ball of chilled dough out onto the dusted parchment paper and sprinkle with more cassava flour on top. Using your roller, roll out the dough until it is about half an inch thick. Dust with more cassava flour as needed.
- Dust your cookie cutters and start cutting out cookies one at a time. Place your cut out cookies on a parchment lined baking pan. Once you've gotten through the first set of dough, mash it all back together, roll it into a ball, dust it, and roll it out a second time.
- Continue this process until you have used up all the dough.
- Bake the cookies for roughly 11 minutes until they're golden brown.
- Let cool completely on a cooling rack and enjoy!
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Notes
Above in the blog post I provide recipe ingredient substitutions as well as dietary modifications.
Nutrition
Calories: 105kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 1gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1.5gTrans Fat: 0gCholesterol: 11mgSodium: 107mgPotassium: 158mgFiber: 0.5gSugar: 9g
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