Easy Gingerbread Cookies - Eggless, Gluten-free and No Molasses!
With the holiday season just around the corner, gingerbread cookies are the perfect bake, with a texture that is crispy and airy.
Ingredients
Flour
- 1 cup Sorghum flour (jowar)
- ¼ cup Finger millet flour (Ragi)
- ¼ cup Rice flour
Sweetener
- ½ cup Brown sugar
Leavening and binding agent
- 1 tsp Edible gum
- ¼ cup salt
- ¼ cup Baking soda
Flavors
- ½ tbsp Ginger powder
- 1 tsp Cinnamon powder
- ¾ tsp Clove powder
- ½ tsp Nutmeg powder
Fat
- ½ cup Butter
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl sieve together 1 cup jowar or sorghum flour, 1/4 cup finger millet flour or Ragi, 1/4 cup rice flour, 1/4 tsp baking soda, and 1/4 tsp salt. Break down any lumps with a spoon and discard the impurities
- Add the spices- 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder, 3/4 tsp clove powder , 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tsp ground edible gum, and 1/2 tbsp ginger powder. Mix all the dry ingredients with a spoon. Add 1/2 cup brown sugar and mix well.
- Take half an inch of ginger and make thin slices with a peeler. Finely chop the slices and add into the flour mixture. Once mixed well, add 1/2 cup or 113 gms softened butter.
- Press down the butter with a spoon into the flour mixture. Mix the butter well so the whole flour is mixed with butter. Add in 1 tbsp of warm water and bring the dough together. This will take about 2-3 minutes. Keep pressing the dough together and form a ball.
- Cover with a plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for an hour or in the freezer for about 15-20 minutes.
- Take a small portion of the dough, and place the dough ball and cover it with plastic wrap, making a small rectangle. Roll the dough into about 1/8th of an inch thickness. Using a cookie mould, cut out shapes and place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- This recipe makes about 40 medium sized cookies. Optionally, you can sprinkle crystal sugar on your cookies before baking. Place the baking tray in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes. Bake the cookies at 350 degrees F. After about 12 minutes, rotate the baking tray to ensure they are baked uniformly. Bake for 4 more minutes and then take out the cookies. The cookies have a gorgeous brown color. Let the cookies cool down completely on a wire rack before decorating them.