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vegan gingerbread cookies in different shapes.
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Vegan Gingerbread Cookies

Vegan Gingerbread Cookies are perfect for your holiday baking schedule.  These spiced cookies make for a great alternative to decorating. 
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 107kcal

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Combine ground flax seed with water and in a small bowl and let sit for 10 minutes. This makes a flax egg.
  • While that's sitting, in a large bowl, beat together vegan butter, brown sugar and molasses until creamy, about 3 minutes. 
  • When flax egg is ready, add that and vanilla to the bowl and beat again. 
  • Add in flour, baking soda, spices and salt.
  • Stir these together with a spatula until combined.
  • Use hands to form 2 equal size balls. 
  • Lay down a piece of parchment paper, then one ball, then another same size piece of parchment paper on top.
  • Roll out dough to ¼" thick. 
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. 
  • Cut out gingerbread men or other desired shapes. Transfer cut outs to a baking sheet. 
  • Place in oven and cook for 9-11 minutes.
    Shorter time for smaller cut outs, longer time for bigger cut outs.  
  • Remove and transfer to a cooling rack and allow to cool completely before icing. 
  • Repeat with remaining ball of dough. 
  • Decorate as desired. We recommend our vegan royal icing to decorate these dairy free gingerbread cookies. 

Notes

*See post for notes about Top 8 Allergy Free variation
**Nutritional facts are just estimates. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates. Does not include icing values.
 

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 107kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 102mg | Potassium: 115mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 180IU | Calcium: 20mg | Iron: 1mg