The best ginger molasses cookies

Not much can beat the perfect ginger cookie, especially when it's laced with molasses - it's like Christmas in a bite! We used our favourite homemade stamp on ours too for a cute detailed touch. Plus, they're gluten free / dairy free too!

The Best Ginger Molasses Cookie Recipe:

Makes: 36 cookies

You'll need:

• 1 cup coconut oil
• 1 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
• 2 eggs
• 4 3/4 cups gluten free flour
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 3 tsp ground ginger
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/3 cup almond milk (we love vanilla flavoured almond milk)
• 1 cup molasses

Note! This recipe requires cooling time.

1. To begin, preheat your oven to 190 degrees celsius. With an electric mixer, cream the coconut oil and sugar. Add in the eggs one at a time.
2. In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, ginger and cinnamon. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, alternating the flour mix with the molasses and almond milk.
3. Separate the dough into 2 large balls – this just makes rolling out the dough easier and more manageable. Lay one ball of dough on a sheet of baking paper and flatten it slightly. Then put another piece of baking paper on top and roll the dough with a rolling pin, keeping the dough thick (up to 1 cm).
4. Repeat with the second ball of dough. Refrigerate the rolled out dough for at 10 minutes. This makes cutting the dough with cookie cutters much easier.
5. If not using a cookie stamp, using round cookie cutters, cut the dough. Re-roll as required to use up all the available cookie dough. Place onto a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake for 8 minutes. Then remove from the oven to cool.

If you are using a cookie stamp:

1. After the cookie dough has chilled cut the cookies into circle shapes the same size as the stamp you are using. (I used a drinking glass to make these shapes).
2. Bake the cookies for 5 minutes then remove them from the oven and quickly and gently press the cookie stamp onto each of the cookies.
3. Return the cookies to the oven and bake for 3 more minutes.

Let us know how these cookies turn out for you and show us your creations using our hashtag #livelivelynz

​From our home to yours,