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The Best Healthy Gingerbread Cookies

These Healthy Gingerbread Cookies tastes like the real deal! They are chewy, soft, and crispy on the edges whilst being super low calorie! They're full of all the traditional cozy flavors, minus all the refined sugar and excess butter.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Servings: 40 mini cookies
Course: Dessert
Calories: 26
Ingredients Method Nutrition Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 50 g butter melted and slightly cooled
  • 1 egg yolk room temp
  • 40-50 g molasses not blackstrap
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 140 g all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp cornstarch
  • 60 g zero calorie icing sugar alternative Can use normal icing sugar, or blend a zero calorie sweetener until fine
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1.5 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/8 tsp ground cloves
  • 1/8 tsp salt

Method
 

  1. Pre-heat oven to 160c or 320f
  2. Melt butter and let it cool
  3. Whisk the melted butter and sweetener until well combined
  4. Add in the egg yolk, vanilla, molasses and spices and whisk until well combined
  5. Sift through the flour, baking soda, cornstarch and salt and using a spatula, fold the ingredients until a slightly sticky dough forms
  6. Refrigerate for 5 minutes to allow the dough to firm up
  7. Roll out on lightly floured surface, or between two pieces of parchment paper to either 1/4 inch thick or 1/8 inch thick (depends on your preference)
  8. Cut out as many gingerbread men, then re-roll the dough and cut, until all the dough is used up (this recipe makes 36-40 gingerbread men). Bake 20 at a time
  9. Bake for 8-10 minutes, then let the cookies rest in the pan for 5 minutes before enjoying as is or icing (details in the notes below)

Nutrition

Calories: 26kcal

Notes

Macros Per cookie (40):
26 Calories
3g Carbs
0.5g Protein
1g Fat
 
Icing recipe:
I make my own sugar-free royal icing but combining 2 pasteurized egg whites, 1/2 tsp cream of tartar, 1/4 tsp vanilla and about 1/3 cup zero calorie icing sugar alternative (can use normal icing sugar). Whisk until glossy stiff peaks and pipe onto the cookies. 

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