Description
These chewy gingerbread cookies are ooey-gooey and spiced to perfection! Plus, the sprinkle of raw coconut sugar on top gives these simple chewy gingerbread cookies an extra textural element.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 cup (100 g) vegan butter, melted
- 3/4 cup (120 g) coconut sugar
- 2 tbsp (50 g) molasses
- 2 tbsp (27 g) cashew milk
- 2 tsp vanilla paste
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ginger (use 1 1/2 tsp if you like your cookies more ginger forward)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups + 2 tbsp (195 g) spelt flour
Instructions
- Pour the melted butter into a large mixing bowl, followed by the coconut sugar. Whisk to combine. Next, add the molasses, cashew milk, vanilla paste, kosher salt, baking powder, baking soda, and spices. Whisk well until a thick syrup forms. You’ll see the batter transform from lumpy to smooth and silky.
- Sprinkle in the spelt flour and fold together using a flexible rubber spatula until there are no streaks of flour remaining. Chill the dough in the freezer for 25 minutes.
- While the dough chills, preheat the oven to 350°F and line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper. Using a 3 tbsp cookie scoop, scoop the cookie dough out into balls, placing them evenly spaced apart on the cookie sheet (I usually do 6-8 cookies to a large baking sheet so they have room to spread).
- Bake the cookies in the oven for 11 minutes or until the edges are golden-brown and the middle is still gooey. Remove from the oven and bang the pan on the counter 5-6 times; this will give you that signature tortoiseshell cookie look. Let cool for 10 minutes and sprinkle with extra coconut sugar for presentation.
Notes
Measure the ingredients carefully. When a recipe like this is scaled down drastically, there is less room for error (as in none at all). I highly recommend using the gram measurements for best results, because something as improperly measuring the flour can skew this recipe. And speaking of grams, linking the kitchen scale I use all the time here (it’s so chic).