I really enjoy eating Gingerbread cookies all year round! So does my granddaughter! They have such a lovely spicy flavour. 🙂
At Christmas time I make them into little men. The rest of the year I just cut them into circles…
Other than chocolate, I believe gingerbread is my granddaughter’s favourite as well!
These lighter coloured cookies are made with fancy molasses.
Gingerbread Cookies (Gluten free/ Dairy Free/ Egg Free)
2 c. gluten free flour mix
1 tsp. xanthan gum
2 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/3 c. palm sugar
1/4 c. coconut oil
1/2 c. molasses
1 tsp. vanilla
Mix the coconut oil, molasses, and vanilla together. In another bowl, whisk all other dry ingredients together. Add dry ingredients to wet and mix thoroughly. Put dough into the fridge covered for about an hour.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
If you want cut out gingerbread cookies then place dough between two pieces of parchment paper. Roll out to about a 1/4 of an inch thick. Dip cookie cutter in flour and cut out gingerbread men. Use a floured spatula to put cookies onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Decorate as wanted. I used coconut for the mouth and dairy free chocolate chips for the eyes and buttons.
If you don’t want to have cut out cookies, roll small balls and flatten them. Place onto lined cookie sheets. Put a small piece of dark chocolate onto cookies if desired.
Bake for 6-8 minutes. For crispier cookies bake 10-11 minutes.
(These darker cookies are made with blackstrap molasses)
Let cool on baking sheet for five minutes before removing to cooling rack. Freezes well.
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just wondered if i could use something else in place of the coconut oil because of allergy?
You could use butter or margarine if you would like.
What sort of gluten free flour mix do you recommend?
Sorry I have linked it now.
These look great – perfect addition for my cookie baking marathon next week!
Looks delicious! Can’t wait to try them!
These look great! I can’t seem to find anything that comes close to the taste of molasses that I can have on ACD but I am going to try these without!
If you leave out the molasses these won’t taste the same either. Can you add in even one table of blackstrap molasses?
Sadly, no – have to be ruthless with candida but hey, gives me a recipe to look forward to!
I have a cookie recipe that has xylitol as the sweetener 🙂 Although I guess you can switch any of them to xylitol.
http://www.sandisallergyfreerecipes.net/spritz-cookies-gluten-free-dairy-free-refined-sugar-free/
Those spritz cookies look amazing, thanks for sharing, I will have to try those asap!
I hope I wasn’t being a bummer about the gingerbread men, I don’t want to take away from a great recipe!
Not at all. I hope you enjoy all the recipes that you try on here 🙂
I love gingerbread too 🙂 These are very cute!
I’m a sucker for gingerbread men and these are a wonderful gluten free option! Thanks for sharing the recipe 🙂
I can’t wait to try these! Thank you for sharing this week! 🙂
Thank you for linking up this week with us for MMM link up party! I am sharing these on the FB page today!
So cute. I don’t usually eat gingerbread outside of the holidays, but I may have to start! Thank you for linking to the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party. Hope to see you next time.
These look so cute! Love the little gingerbread men!
YUMMM Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂
Hope your week is great!
Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com