I made a couple of healthier swaps in our Big and Soft Ginger Cookies and loved the way they turned out. I am pretty sure that you can eat twice as many since they are a little healthier.
You also don’t need to light a candle in your house, because these cookies fill the air with a holiday ginger scent that you are going to love.
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How to make Healthier Soft and chewy ginger cookies:
Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Step 2: In a large bowl, sift together flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt; set aside.
Step 3: In a large bowl, cream together butter, applesauce and coconut sugar until light and fluffy.
Step 4: Beat in egg, then stir in water and molasses.
Step 5: Gradually stir in flour mixture until just combined. Shape dough into 1-inch balls, roll in sugar (if desired) and place 2″ apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
Step 6: Bake for 8-10 minutes.
Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to wire rack.
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Healthier alternatives in this recipe
For this recipe, I did use coconut sugar as my sweetener. I just found it at my grocery store by the other sugars.
I know that some people think it is a great alternative to white sugar and others feel that it is just as bad for you as refined sugar.
There can be trace amounts of some nutrients like iron, zinc, calcium, and potassium found in coconut sugar and I personally like it’s caramel-like taste, so that’s why I used it in this recipe.
You could definitely use white sugar in place of the coconut sugar. You could also use a sweetener as well, but we recommend trying the coconut sugar. It goes perfect with the taste of the ginger.
I also used White Whole Wheat Flour in this recipe. It’s pretty much all that I use for all my cooking and baking these days.
I like that it’s whole wheat, but it’s not quite so heavy. Whole wheat white flour is made from a hard white wheat berry.
It contains the entire wheat berry; the difference is in the white berry’s bran and the result is a lighter colored, sweeter tasting flour.
Keeping the bran and germ yields a flour with more fiber and naturally occurring nutrients. All-purpose flour is usually stripped of all the good stuff and then is bleached to get that white color.
Making this simple switch to white whole wheat flour is just one of the little ways I try to help my family eat healthier. You’ll have to try it and tell me what you think.
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Healthier Soft and Chewy Ginger Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups white whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon cloves
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 Tablespoons butter (unsalted)
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ¾ cup coconut sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 Tablespoon water
- ¼ cup molasses
- ¼ cup coconut sugar, for rolling
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt; set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together butter, applesauce and coconut sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in egg, then stir in water and molasses.
- Gradually stir in flour mixture until just combined. Shape dough into 1-inch balls, roll in sugar (if desired) and place 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to wire rack.
Notes
Nutrition
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