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Healthier Gingerbread Cookies

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Healthier Gingerbread Cookies

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Here’s a healthy version of your favorite classic gingerbread cookies! This gingerbread cookie recipe is healthier because of a few simple substitutions—I substituted whole wheat pastry flour for all purpose flour, coconut oil for butter and coconut sugar for brown sugar. See notes provided in the paragraphs above for tips and suggestions on choosing your molasses and decorations. Recipe yields around 32 cookies, depending on their size.

Ingredient:

  • Cookies
  • 3 cups (310 grams) whole wheat pastry flour*, plus more for work surface
  • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • ¾ teaspoon kosher salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon finely ground black pepper
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ cup melted coconut oil
  • ½ cup unsulphured molasses (use regular molasses for lighter, somewhat spicy cookies or blackstrap molasses for very spicy, intensely flavored cookies—or a mixture of both)
  • ½ cup packed coconut sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • Powdered sugar, for dusting (optional)
  • Lemon icing (optional)
  • ½ cup powdered sugar (here’s how to make your own)
  • ¼ teaspoon lemon zest (optional, for intense lemon flavor)
  • 2 ¼ teaspoons lemon juice

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