Who said you couldn’t be a little naughty this holiday season? Delicate and moist lectin-free gingerbread cookies that are gluten-free, grain-free, and low in sugar!
(Psst! Santa would approve).
Gingerbread Jingle Balls
Ingredients
- 2 pastured eggs
- 1/2 cup monkfruit white "sugar"
- 1/4 cup dark molasses
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 cup pastured butter
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1 cup coconut flour depending on flour, could need between 1 cup and 1 1/4 cup
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground allspice
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 1/4 tsp iodized salt
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup monkfruit white "sugar for cookie dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with tin foil.
- Beat eggs and mix together with sugar, vanilla, and molasses.
- Melt butter and coconut oil over medium heat. Once melted, add to the sugar and egg mixture. Blend until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, mix together all dry ingredients together until fully blended.
- Add dry and wet ingredients together. The dough should be a moist paste-like texture; thick enough to form small balls.
- Before shaping cookies, place the dough covered in the refrigerator to chill for ten minutes.
- Once the dough is chilled, form small balls 1" diameter and set aside. Cookies should be "bite-sized".
- Place 1/2 cup sugar on a plate. Take each ball and roll in the sugar, coating the entire cookie.
- Place sugar-coated balls onto the cookie sheet and bake in the oven between 8-10 minutes.
- IMPORTANT STEP: Balls will come out of the oven soft initially, almost appearing "not done". However, take them out of the oven and let the balls cool on the baking sheet for 5-7 minutes before using a spatula to remove. The cookies will be soft and cake-like, but require a cooling period which will harden them slightly. If you try to remove the cookies too soon before cooling 5-7 minutes, they will break. It is normal to see little cracks at the top of the cookies, which add to its charm.
Wishing you the happiest of holidays, full of joy and plenty of good cheer!