❄️ Happy winter solstice!!! ❄️
I can’t believe it’s officially winter AGAIN! Time flies!!! I know everyone says it, but even I feel like it despite living in a box (sure feels like living in a box being housebound haha)! To honor the solstice, I’m a.)posting for the first time in 6 months. SIX MONTHS!?!? This just saddens me. and, b.)sharing a slightly adapted grain-free gingerbread cookie recipe from Primal Palate !!!
This is the first year in a long time I’m well enough to really get in the Christmas spirit, and I couldn’t be more grateful!!!!! What better way to celebrate Christmas/the holidays/winter than making and eating gingerbread! Even better when it’s healthy and allergy-friendly 🙂
Grain-free Gingerbread Cookies
Vegan, Gluten-free, Grain-free, Refined Sugar-free optional, Soy-free optional
Yield: 12 gingerbread cookies
{recipe adapted from: Primal Palate}
ingredients:
•2 cups almond meal/flour
•2/3 cup arrowroot flour, plus more for dusting
•1/2 tsp salt
•1/2 tsp baking soda
•3/4 tsp ground ginger
•1/2 tsp ground cloves
•1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
•1/2 tsp ground nutmeg, or allspice
•4 tbsp coconut sugar or maple sugar
•1/2 cup unsulphured molasses (NOT blackstrap)
•3 tbsp unrefined coconut oil, or vegan butter
instructions:
preheat oven to 350 degrees.
in a large mixing bowl, combine blanched almond flour, arrowroot flour, salt, baking soda, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar. Stir ingredients to combine.
in a small sauce pan, bring molasses to a boil over medium heat.
add coconut oil/butter to sauce pan, and stir until combined with the molasses.
remove sauce pan from heat and pour into the dry ingredients.
mix batter with a spoon until you have formed a dark golden cookie dough, and all the dry ingredients are combined withe the molasses and coconut oil/butter.
place a sheet of parchment paper (or set an wrap) onto a flat cooking surface, and dust parchment with arrowroot flour. form dough into a ball, and place on the parchment paper. lightly press dough down to flatten, and sprinkle with a small amount of arrowroot flour. place another sheet of parchment paper on top of the dough, and roll into a thin sheet with a rolling pin (about 1/4 inch thick).
sprinkle arrowroot on a small plate, and place cookie cutters into the arrowroot to coat the bottom for cutting. this will keep the cookie dough from sticking to the batter for an easy release after cutting.
once you have made cuts throughout the entire sheet of cookie dough, carefully peel away the excess dough, and lightly transfer the cut out cookies to a parchment lined baking sheet. form dough into another ball, and roll out again to repeat until all the dough is used. Enjoy!
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