Gingerbread Cookies Recipe Whole Wheat Flour
You can find generally whole wheat pastry flour at well stocked grocery stores as well as health food stores.
Gingerbread cookies recipe whole wheat flour. Use your favorite cookie cutter shape to cut out cookies and place them on baking sheet one inch apart and bake at 375ºf for 7 10 minutes. Here are the sifted dry ingredients. Stir into the butter mixture.
In another bowl stir together all purpose flour whole wheat flour cinnamon ginger baking soda salt and cloves. Instead of ginger powder you can also add 3 tsp fresh ginger paste or minced grated ginger. Despite how some cut out cookies can be these whole wheat gingerbread men are actually pretty straight forward and easy to make.
Mix the two together. 7 minutes will produce a soft and. These cookies end up soft and yet sturdy.
Add in the molasses egg and vanilla and beat again until combined. In a large bowl beat together the coconut oil and coconut sugar with a hand mixer for 2 minutes until sort of fluffy it won t be as fluffy as with regular butter. In a medium bowl whisk together the flour baking soda salt ginger cinnamon nutmeg and cloves.
In a separate bowl or plate sift 2 cups whole wheat flour tsp baking soda 2 tsp ginger powder tsp cinnamon powder tsp clove powder and tsp nutmeg powder. Mix the wet ingredients. Recipe by mary jenny this traditional festive cookie incorporates whole wheat flour to provide a fibre boost without compromising flavour or texture.
This recipe works great with whole wheat pastry flour. Recipe updated 12 17 18 to remove whole wheat flour as an option it doesn t work well. Mix the dry ingredients.