Add to: Recipe Box | Grocery List | Meal PlannerRecipe submitted by JoniL, 05/14/05
Gingerffic CutoutsIngredients (use vegan versions): 2 cups all-purpose flour (can be whole wheat)
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
2 teaspoon ground ginger (can use finely grated fresh ginger)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon allspice (optional)
1/3 cup chopped crystallized ginger (optional)
1/3 cup canola or grape seed oil (can partially replace with applesauce)
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup unsweetened soy milk
Directions:Sift together all dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk together oil and vegan sugar thoroughly. Stir in molasses. Stir in soymilk. Add flour mixture to molasses mixture 1/2 cup at a time; stirring until flour is well combined after each addition. Stir in crystallized ginger if desired.
Roll out dough into a manageable disk between two sheets of parchment or wax paper. Refrigerate or freeze until stiff (1/2-1 hr). Pop dough back into the fridge/freezer at any point during the following steps if it becomes too soft to handle!
Roll dough until just under 1/4 inch thick. Peel off top layer of paper, cut into shapes. Place on parchment lined cookie sheet and bake in preheated 325F oven for 5 min, rotate sheet, bake another 5 min. Depending on thickness of your cookies and strength of your oven, baking time may need adjustment. Cookies should be puffy and with soft centers straight out of oven. Let cookies cool on sheet for 10 min before removing and cooling completely. Frost and decorate as desired.
Serves: makes 3 dozen
Preparation time: 30 minutes + refrigeration
These were terrific! I used whole wheat pastry flour. Definitely use the crystallized ginger if you have it. The cookies have a beautiful golden color and are really flavorful and spicy (in a clove-nutmeg-ginger sort of way). The dough was a bit unmanageable for me even after refrigeration so I just rolled small pieces of dough in my hands and then flattened them with two lightly floured fingers instead of rolling the dough out. Thank you for the wonderful recipe--its a keeper!
Archived comment by: hopfrog
Great spicy, flavorful recipe! I halved the ingredients, substituted apple sauce for the oil, and baked it in a container like gingerbread (instead of separately like cookies) It was great!
Archived comment by: tiannaMulan
