Spiced Ginger Cookies

🍪 SPICED GINGER COOKIES 🍪 (GF, DF, V)

I whipped up a batch of these during the week and they are sooo yummy! 😋
I highly recommend you give these a go - especially if you are finding yourself snacking a lot at the moment 😆🙊

INGREDIENTS

• 1¼ cup pitted dates
• 2½ cup almond meal (or nut-free alternative is brown rice flour)
• 1 tsp baking soda
• a pinch of sea salt
• 2 tbsp melted coconut oil
• 1 egg (or 1 tbsp chia seeds mixed with 1/3 cup water)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• ½ tsp ground nutmeg
• ½ tsp ground cloves

METHOD

1. Preheat oven to 175oC.
2. In a food processor, pulse 1 1/2 cups of the almond meal with the dates until finely chopped (but not forming a paste).
3. Add remaining almond meal and ingredients and mix until a ball forms.
4. Don't process the mixture too much - you don't want the almonds breaking down so much that they release oil making almond butter.
5. Form balls about the size of a walnut then place them on ungreased cookie sheet or tray. Press each ball down lightly, flattening to a rounded cookie shape and pop into the oven.
6. In 10 minutes you'll have around 35 heavenly smelling and tasting spiced ginger cookies.

Recipe source: Janella Purcell

I think for my next batch, I might add a vegan chocolate button to each cookie 😍