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Vegan Gluten free Ginger Molasses Cookies are easy & have a few ingredients. Look at those crinkles! no shortening.Vegan, Dairy-free, Palm-oil-free Recipeย ย Jump to Recipeย ย
Look at them Crinkles!
These easy and delicious cookies come together in minutes and can be made fat and crinkly for soft cookies and and small, thin and snappy.ย
These cookies have a good load of molasses. If you do not like molasses, use light molasses or maple syrup. These are gluten-free with Oat + almond + rice flour. You can also make these with spelt or whole wheat pastry flour for a with gluten version.ย
The cookies are rolled up in sugar and cinnamon. Use chai spice for variation. These are adapted from myย Triple Ginger Molasses Spelt Cookies(not gf). Try these for regular non gf version or try the 1 bowl Giant Molasses Cookies. I wanted to make them more crinkly and gluten-free.
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More cookies from the blog
Triple Ginger Molasses Spelt Cookies
You can make these soft or snappy. Shape them into fat balls, flatten slightly and bake for soft crinkly cookies. Make smaller flat coins (1.5 inch) for snappy cookies. ย
Vegan Gluten free Ginger Molasses cookies
Ingredientsย ย
Wet
- 1/4 cup oil, neutral oil like safflower
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 3 Tbsp non dairy milk
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar , or ground raw sugar
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
Dry
- 1 cup Oat flour
- 3/4 cup finely ground almonds
- 1/2 cup rice flour, white or brown
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch , or arrowroot starch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 to 3 Tbsp chopped candied ginger
To coat
- 3 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 Tbsp coconut sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon or chai spice, optional
Instructionsย
- In a bowl, combine all the wet ingredients and whisk until the sugar dissolves. 1 to 2 minutes.
- In another bowl, mix all the dry ingredients. Whisk well.
- Add dry to wet and and mix to make a soft somewhat sticky dough. Let the dough sit for 5 minutes. Pre-heat the oven to 360 degrees F / 180ยบc.
- In a bowl, mix the ingredients to coat.
- (If the dough is too sticky, add a Tbsp or more oat flour and mix in into the dough). Grease your hands and take 2 to 2.5 Tbsp of the dough, roll it into a smooth ball, coat in sugar mixture. Place on parchment lined sheet and flatten slightly.
- Put a drop of water in the center of each cookie. Bake for 11 to 13 minutes or until the top is set.
- Cool completely before serving (15 to 20 mins). The cookies keep cooking and pick up the sweetness from the sugar coating as they sit.
Notes
To make with with gluten : Use 2 to 2.25 cups Spelt or whole wheat pastry flour + 1 Tbsp cornstarch. Add 2 cups flour and add more only if the mixture is too wet. You want the mixture to be a soft somewhat sticky dough. Nutritional values based on one cookie
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Yum! I just made these and they turned out fantastic. Thanks for the recipe!
I used melted coconut oil instead of the safflower oil, and 1.5 c. of an all-purpose gluten-free flour blend in place of the oat and rice flours, and the substitutions worked fine.
Awesome! so glad it worked out with the subs!
Really want to make these but my kids are allergic to all nuts and sunflower seeds. Any sub suggestions? Thank you!
I havent tried these with anything else. Maybe use a gluten-free flour blend for all of the flour + nut flour ?
Thank you so much, I will try that today and let you know how they turn out ๐
How did this work out?
As Iโm almond intolerant, what can I use in the place of the ground almonds?
try a different nut flour. Cashews, hazelnuts etc.
These cookies are amazing. they have just the right kind of crunch and they look so pretty.
I was wondering the same as Roopam about using apple sauce in place of the oil.. do you think that would work?
You can use apple sauce. The cookies might be softer thats all.
Hi Richa, long time reader here. LOVE your recipes. Just made these cookies and my picky picky husbands first response was a surprised โthese are vegan?!โ And stated he was looking forward to having them with his chai. QUESTION: can I replace the oil with an apple sauce or another puree, do you think that would work! Thanks again!
You can use apple sauce.The cookies might be slightly softer.
These are now a staple in our house. I crave these and would eat them all if I thought I could get away with it. Iโve refrigerated the dough and it works great -easier for 6 year old to roll in sugar. Thank you for all your fabulous recipes and providing hope for us vegan and gluten free food snobs (yes food needs to taste good and be varied too).
Oops I also forgot to askโฆcould I use the almond pulp after I make almond milk instead of the ground almonds? I always have so much pulp.
Thanks
Thank you so much for this recipe โ I donโt have any oats or oat flourโฆ.do you think buckwheat flour might work? And thank you for the wonderful write up . I was so excited that you support HAI as well! Whenever I can send money to them I do as there is such tremendous need โ and as Eileen always says, the money goes very far in India (although our CAN dollar is pretty low right now). May all beings know peace!
Buckwheat can be quite dense. Use sorghum or a combination of buckwheat and sorghum instead.
almond pulp should work as well. The dough might need another Tbsp or more flour because of the added moisture.
So glad to hear that you support HAI as well. Eileen is such a hard worker. and all the amazing people at the sanctuarries she supports as well.
Those look so gorgeous Richa! I love, love that they are gluten-free and I have all the ingredients!!
yay!