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    Vegan Molasses Cookies

    Dec 23, 2020 · Updated: Mar 16, 2023 by Dee Dine · Affliate links disclosure.

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    Vegan Molasses Cookies

    Vegan molasses cookies with a chewy texture thanks to nut butter. These delicious old fashioned cookies are without dairy, refined sugar and oil. Eat them plain, or fill with cream and stack like whoopie pies! A healthy, delicious spicy gem of a cookie.

    Healthy Vegan Molasses Cookies

    These molasses cookies are the quintessential spice cookie made with out dairy, refined sugar, oil and even nuts. I filled mine with chocolate cream but you can eat yours plain. Either way, within an hour you will be sinking your teeth into a chewy spicy cookie.

    How is that possible? Very! Just follow me and we shall take a healthy molasses cookie journey.

    What Are Molasses Cookies?

    Molasses are dark chewy spicy cookies that have an almost bitter flavor, yet also sweet especially by the sugar coating. And they make people smile.

    Vegan molasses cookies are vegan because I replaced the butter and eggs and oil that you might find in the traditional recipe.

    Ingredients 

    Here are the basic ingredients in most molasses cookie recipes:

    Healthy Vegan Molasses Cookies

    Flour - structures cookie

    Baking soda - helps puff up cookie but not high enough to ruin flatness.

    Spices - to support spicy molasses flavor

    Brown sugar - or coconut palm sugar

    Molasses - I use original; blackstrap is too bitter.

    And here are the two ingredients I replace to remove dairy and oil from my recipe, making it healthier, vegan, egg-free, dairy-free, oil-free and more:

    Aquafaba - instead of eggs

    Nut Butter - instead of butter you'd find in a traditional recipe. I use awesome nut butter. Actually you can use any nut butter or even seed butter.

    How to Make

    1. Mix dry ingredients together.

    2. Put wet ingredients together.

    3. Add wet to dry and mix until you have a wettish batter.

    4. Refrigerate this batter for an hour. This will allow you to roll them for rolling in sugar and baking.

    5. Roll into balls and roll in cane sugar.

    6. Bake at 350 F. The cookies will sink as they back, creating the quintessential cracks. If they puff up too much, press down with a fork just as they come warm out of the oven.

    7. Cool cookies on pan for 1 minute, then cool longer on a rack.

    8. Store at room temperature in sealed container for a week. Then freeze the cookies or even the dough for three months.

    Healthy Vegan Molasses Cookies

    FAQS

    How Healthy is Molasses?

    Molasses is a thick syrup made from the sugar making process. It varies in the way it is refined, and this produces a product that retains more nutrition than ordinary sugar. Namely iron and magnesium.

    What Does Molasses Do In Cookies

    It makes cookies soft and chewy and lends a spicy flavor.

    What is the difference between gingersnaps and molasses cookies?

    Gingersnaps are crisp and spicy and molasses are chewy and spicy.

    Why Do My Molasses Cookies Go Flat?

    Typically all cookies go flat when they are lacking flour. I like my molasses cookies on the flat side though, so I hold back about ½ cup of flour in this recipe. Another way to keep them flattish is to press them down as they come out of the oven. This will create more of those lovely cracks.

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    Healthy Vegan Molasses Cookies

    Vegan Molasses Cookies

    Created by Dee Dine
    Vegan molasses cookies with a chewy texture thanks to nut butter. These delicious old fashioned cookies are without dairy, refined sugar and oil. Eat them plain, or fill with cream and stack like whoopie pies! A healthy, delicious spicy gem of a cookie.
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    Prep Time 1 hr 10 mins
    Cook Time 12 mins
    Total Time 1 hr 22 mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 18
    Calories 81 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    Dry ingredients

    • 1 ⅛ cups all purpose flour or all purpose gluten-free
    • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
    • 1 teaspoon ginger
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    • ¼ teaspoon cloves
    • pinch of salt

    Wet ingredients

    • ⅓ cup nut butter
    • ¼ cup brown sugar or coconut palm sugar
    • ⅛ cup cane sugar organic cane sugar
    • ⅛ cup molasses original
    • 3 tablespoon aquafaba liquid from a can of chickpeas, unsalted
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
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    Instructions
     

    Prep

    • Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

    Make cookies

    • Mix dry ingredients in a smaller bowl.
    • Mix wet ingredients together in a large mixing bowl.
    • Add dry to wet and mix until you have a wettish batter. Stir by hand or use a hand-mixer.
    • Cover the bowl of batter and refrigerate this batter for an hour. This will allow you to roll them into ovals for rolling in sugar and baking.
    • Roll ovals and roll in cane sugar. Flatten into a circle with your hand.
    • Bake at 350 F for 10-12 minutes. It's hard to tell if they are done. If your oven is hot, pull them out sooner.
    • Cool cookies on pan for 2 minutes. This is important to allow them to cool. Then remove them from the pan and cool longer on a rack.

    Storage

    • Store at room temperature in sealed container for a week. Then freeze the cookies or even the dough for three months.
    • Optional: I stuffed mine with chocolate buttercream icing, but you can eat them plain, obvs!

    Nutrition

    Calories: 81kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 2gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 55mgPotassium: 50mgFiber: 1gSugar: 6gVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 16mgIron: 1mg
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    1. DonbakesNY

      December 27, 2020 at 12:03 pm

      5 stars
      Can I use something other than aquafaba? Love the look of these

      Reply
      • Dee Dine

        December 27, 2020 at 12:04 pm

        Thanks! Sure, try apple sauce, same amount, unsweetened. Or a flaxseed egg.

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