Also find a quick way to make Molasses at home with Raw Sugar if you cant find it around you or are plain laze to step out(like me!) This is going to be a quick recipe because it’s 23 December already and i have a tonne to prep for the dinner tomorrow.
Ingredients for Healthy Ginger Bread Cookies
3 Cups Whole Wheat Flour½ Tsp Baking Powder2 tbsp Ginger Dry Powder2 tbsp Cinnamon1 tsp Black Pepper1 tsp Salt½ Cup Butter At room temperature½ Cup Palm Sugar/Jaggery/Coconut Sugar or brown sugar or white sugar2 Egg½ Cup Molasses* or Honey.Check notes to make it at home4 tbsp Milk
Replacements and Alternatives
Replacement for Molasses
You can replace Molasses with Honey or Liquid jaggery or just make it at home.Add 1 Cup of Jaggery and ¼ cup of water in a sauce pan.Heat, bring to boil and let it cool.You can strain it if the Jaggery was not clean.
How to make Healthy Ginger Bread Cookies
Step 1: Get the dry ingredients together.Strain them if you see clumps or any other irregularity. Step 2:Whisk the butter and sugar to make them fluffy.Add all the wet ingredients. Step 3: Mix dry and wet ingredients. Step 4: Wrap & Refrigerate Step 5:Roll and Cut out the cookies Step 6: Bake them at 180C/350F
Decorate Healthy Ginger Bread Cookies
Icing Sugar
You could decorate them with white sugar icing .Mix together ½ Cup Icing Sugar,2 tablespoon lemon juice.Pipe them over the cookies.
Dark Chocolate
This is my favourite way and also simple and an easy way out! Just Dip them partially in dark chocolate and sprinkle them with your choice of sprinklers.
Other Healthy Cookie Recipes
Here are some more healthy cookies for you! Millet Cut out Butter Cookies(Ragi Butter Cookies)Chocolate Chip Finger Millet CookiesBuckwheat Walnut CookiesPeanut Butter CookiesOatmeal and Raisin CookiesEggless Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies