Many Hands Make Gingerbread
The other day we had friends over and made tons of gingerbread men. So many little hands rolling and cutting out dough. We decorated our gingerbread men with dried fruit and nuts. The kids even cut loose and made free form cookie shapes as well.
5 cups blanched almond flour
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon ginger powder
¼ teaspoon cloves - ground
½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ cup grapeseed oil
½ cup agave nectar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
½ cup yacon syrup
2 eggs
1 teaspoon lemon zest
- In a large bowl, combine almond flour, cinnamon, ginger powder, cloves, salt and baking soda
- In a smaller bowl, mix together grapeseed oil, agave, vanilla, yacon, eggs and lemon zest
- Stir wet ingredients into dry
- Chill dough in freezer for 1-2 hours
- Roll out dough between two pieces of parchment paper to ¼ inch thick
- Remove top sheet of parchment paper, cut out cookies using a medium gingerbread man cookie cutter
- Decorate with nuts and dried fruit –we used pieces of lemon rind for the mouth
- Transfer with a spatula to a parchment lined baking sheet
- Cook at 350° for 15 minutes
- Cool and serve
Makes 36 gingerbread cookies
I have been working on this gluten-free, dairy-free gingerbread recipe for years. At last, I find myself sufficiently satisfied with the recipe and offer it to you for some Christmas cookie baking fun.
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Subscribe by Email to elanaspantry.com:Posted on December 23, 2007 in desserts by Elana
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I am looking for good gluten free recipes and came upon your web site. Everything looks and sounds great. Unfortunately, my adult son who has just been diagnosed as gluten intolerant, is also allergic to tree nuts and soy. This limits his use of flours. Is there a flour we can use to replace the almond flour in your recipes? Almond flour sounds delicious but…
I’m looking forward to your advice. I also run an extended day program in a Waldorf School and would love to use some of these recipes for our snacks, but we are committed to being a nut free kitchen, too. Thanks, Susan
July 11th, 2008 5:28 pm
Hi Susan-
You could try my coconut flour recipes. Just enter “coconut flour” into the search bar on the upper right side of my site. The coconut flour recipes will appear and most of those are nut free.
Alternatively, you could experiment with the recipes in terms of replacements. Since I specialize in almond flour, my experimentation is in creating and perfecting recipes with that ingredient. I stay away from rice flour and most of the other gluten-free flours as they are super high glycemic.
Hope this helps.
Elana
July 11th, 2008 9:36 pm
HI Elana,
Great that you have this recipe online! But what is yacon powder exactly? I did a search online and it is only (and very limitly) available as syrup in Europe (and hot even in Holland…) I will try to substitute with a little more agave, but if you have any advice here, that’d be very welcome!
Thanks so much and enjoy a relaxed sunday!
xox Christianne
September 7th, 2008 1:33 am
Hi Christianne-
I haven’t ever used yacon powder –I use and link to yacon syrup. I generally link my unusual ingredients to sites that describe and sell them.
The yacon in this recipe gives the dough a darker color and rich flavor (sort of like the molasses in a standard ginger bread recipe).
I hope this helps and have a great weekend.
Elana
September 8th, 2008 9:58 am
HI Elana,
Yes, I meant syrup, sorry for the mix-up! The website you link to doesn’t sell outside the US so I searched for it here. Thanks for the advice, I will start experimenting here (I have an adorable gingerbreadman cookie cutter that is just dying to be of use) and will let you know how it worked out, maybe that’ll be helpful to European readers…
Thanks again and have a great day in the peachpit! (WOW, quel chance!)
CHristianne
September 10th, 2008 11:06 pm
Hi Christianne,
If you find the yacon syrup sold outside the US let me know, and then I will share it in the faq section with my International readers.
Have fun with the adorable gingerbread man cookie cutter.
xo Elana
September 11th, 2008 11:21 am