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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 Recipe Jump to Recipe
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.
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.
The cookies are rolled up in sugar and cinnamon. Use chai spice for variation. These are adapted from my 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.
Typing up this post while watching the Seahawks. Go Hawks!
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.
Vegan Gluten free Ginger Molasses cookies
Ingredients
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
Instructions
- 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 / 180ºc.
- 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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Perfect. (almost. I didn’t have Candied ginger 😔) but the rest of the recipe was followed by I did add a bit of Cayenne 🌶 and I left out the cane sugar, rolling them in just coconut sugar and cinnamon. (I was baking them for a “no refined sugar” family)
I made them a second time, still had no Candied ginger, but I decided instead to add orange marmalade. I used to make ginger snaps that way and thought I’d try in this recipe. Well, it made them so much wetter, I ended up having to add another cup of oat flour, and they were still really tasty but they lost their amazing textures.
Your recipes are always great. Thank you 😊
I love experimenting in the kitchen too. Thank you for making my recipes!
This is another masterpiece! I posted my comment earlier but couldn’t find it. Anyway, I want to add that while there thousands of gluten free recipes on the internet, Richa’s recipes are unique. She doesn’t use gluten free flour. The problem with gluten free flour is that it contains more then 50% of starch. Starch in big amounts is harmful to our health.
Thank you Richa. Please keep your recipes authentic 🙏🌺
Thank you for noticing this! Glad you enjoy 🙂
Another masterpiece! Absolutely delicious! Being a gluten free is a chalenge where you have to sacrifice for taste🫥. With Richa’s recipes i feel that I can enjoy the great taste of cookies again.
Thank you dear Richa very much🙏🌺❤️
thank you so much, Lina! You’re so kind!