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    Chocolate Ginger Cookies

    Dec 23, 2020 · Updated: Nov 20, 2023 by Dee Dine · Affliate links disclosure.

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    Chocolate ginger cookies with a spicy chocolate flavor, and a soft chewy texture. No eggs or dairy. Eat them plain, or fill with cream and stack like whoopie pies!

    chocolate molasses cookies.

    These chocolate ginger cookies are the quintessential spice cookie made with cocoa, and without 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.

    Why You'll Love This

    Molasses are dark chewy spicy cookies are sweet and spicy. I made these dairy free and vegan by using dairy free butter, and replacing the eggs with applesauce. Applesauce works because the pectin reacts with baking soda to help give the cookies structure.

    Ingredients 

    Flour - Use all purpose or gluten free baking flour.

    Unsweetened cocoa.

    Brown sugar - or coconut palm sugar

    Molasses - I use original, Grandma's brand; blackstrap is too bitter.

    Applesauce. Instead of eggs. Pectin reacts with baking soda to provide lift.

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    Butter. Use unsalted.

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

    Vanilla, Spices - to support spicy molasses flavor, and salt

    See the recipe card at the bottom for full information on ingredients and quantities.

    Step by Step Instructions

    For more detail, visit the complete and printable recipe at the bottom of this post, but here are general steps.

    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. Use a medium cookie scoop to create balls and roll in cane sugar.

    Healthy Vegan Molasses Cookies

    6. Bake at 350 F.

    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.

    chocolate molasses cookies.

    FAQS

    Why Do My Molasses Cookies Go Flat?

    Typically all cookies go flat when they are lacking flour. So be sure to measure your flour correctly. Use the fluff, spoon and level method. Fluff the flour in the bag, spoon it into cups, and level off with a knife.

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    chocolate ginger cookies.

    Chocolate Ginger Cookies

    Created by Dee Dine
    Chocolate ginger cookies with a spicy chocolate flavor, and a soft chewy texture. No eggs or dairy. Eat them plain, or fill with cream and stack like whoopie pies!
    5 from 2 votes
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    Prep Time 1 hour hr 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 12 minutes mins
    Total Time 1 hour hr 22 minutes mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12
    Calories 126 kcal

    Equipment

    • baking sheet

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 cup all purpose flour or gluten free baking flour
    • 2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
    • 3 tablespoon molasses (Grandma's brand, not blackstrap)
    • ⅓ cup brown sugar
    • ⅓ cup butter, unsalted room temperature
    • ¼ cup applesauce
    • 1 tablespoon gingerbread spices (⅛ teaspoon each of cloves and nutmeg)
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
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    Instructions
     

    Prep

    • Make sure the butter is at room temperature. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.
    • Preheat oven to 350 F

    Mix cookie batter

    • Combine butter and sugar in a bowl, and cream using a hand mixer. (Or stand mixer if you have one)
      ⅓ cup brown sugar, ⅓ cup butter, unsalted room temperature
    • Add the rest of the wet ingredients and mix until combined.
      3 tablespoon molasses (Grandma's brand, not blackstrap), ¼ cup applesauce, 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • Mix dry ingredients in a strainer and add them to the bowl of wet ingredients. Mix about 1 minute until combined.
      1 cup all purpose flour, 2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa, 1 tablespoon gingerbread spices, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon salt
    • Put foil or a dish over the bowl of dough and chill in the refrigerator 1 hour.
    • Scoop the dough with a medium cookie scoop, roll in a dish of cane sugar, and line on the baking sheet with 2 inches apart.
    • Bake the cookies for 12 minutes. Sprinkle cane sugar on the hot cookies when you remove them from the oven.
    • Cool cookies on pan for 10 minutes, the transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 126kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 1gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 184mgPotassium: 111mgFiber: 1gSugar: 10gVitamin A: 160IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 21mgIron: 1mg
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    Comments

    1. DonbakesNY says

      December 27, 2020 at 12:03 pm

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

      Reply
      • Dee Dine says

        December 27, 2020 at 12:04 pm

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

        Reply
    5 from 2 votes (1 rating without comment)

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