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Perfect Vegan Gingerbread Cookies

  • Author: Brittany Mueller
  • Prep Time: 2 hours
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
  • Yield: 12 -24 1x
  • Category: Baking, Cookies, Holiday
  • Cuisine: Vegan

Description

These are truly PERFECT vegan gingerbread cookies! The dough rolls out like a dream, they're perfectly spiced, and not too sweet. Whether you prefer your gingerbread soft and chewy or crisp and snappy, this is the recipe for you!


Ingredients

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  • 1 1/3 cups whole wheat flour
  • 3/4 cup unbleached all purpose flour
  • 1/2 tbsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
  • 2 tsp ginger
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp cloves
  • 1/2 cup coconut oil, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp evaporated cane sugar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/2 cup fancy molasses (blackstrap is not recommended)
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  1. In a medium sized bowl combine the flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, cream together the coconut oil and the sugar. Beat for 1-2 minutes until the mixture is nice and light. Add the water, molasses and vanilla, beat for another 30 seconds to mix thoroughly.
  3. Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed sugar mixture, beating to combine.
  4. Wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight (or for at least 2 hours)
  5. Before rolling, let the dough sit at room temperature for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
  6. Preheat oven to 325F.
  7. Roll the dough directly onto parchment paper. (Read our baking tips above for perfectly rolled cookies.) The dough should be 1/4" thick. Use cookie cutters to cut out the dough, use a flat spatula to gently remove the excess dough. Keep re-rolling and cutting out the dough until it's all used up.
  8. Pop the unbaked cookies into the freezer to chill for 10 minutes.
  9. Bake for 8-10 minutes, until the cookies are lightly browned around the edges and barely firm in the center.
  10. Let them cool completely before decorating. Store them in an airtight container for a perfectly soft chewy molasses cookie texture. Alternatively, you can store them with a little bit of air ventilation for a lightly crisp, snappy gingerbread cookies.

Notes

With the dough rolled out to 1/4", this recipe makes about 12 large cookies (approx. 3"x4") or 24 smaller cookies (approx 2"x2.5"). We made 15 cookies, 9 large and 6 small.

Keywords: vegan gingerbread cookies, vegan ginger cookies