Spicy Molasses Cookies: [Gluten Free, Refined Sugar-Free]

Brenda Bennett — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:29:59 +0000

Classic snickerdoodles are fabulous it’s true. Soft, buttery, sugary, rolled in more sugar before baking…..you know what I’m talking about don’t you? I’d love to eat them myself, I would ….. the problem is I can’t stop eating them and that’s why I can’t make them typical and traditional.

Once I realized I needed to avoid white flour and refined sugar baking and products I knew I had to find a way to enjoy life without them and be happy about it. It isn’t always easy, but I don’t crave sugary baked goods anymore and that my friends, is the most freeing result of living sugar-free one day at a time. 🙂

So back to the cookies. These little babies are awesome, especially for gluten free and refined sugar free. Using Bob Red Mill’s gluten free flour and stevia, the base of the recipe is sugar free.

So the problem here is my intention was to make a snickerdoodle cookie, only once I got baking and looking at some old recipes of mine made from adaptions of a Woman’s Day Magazine I had for snickerdoodles in 2003, the cookies changed into something else. After two more batches of experimenting I ended up with more of a spiced cookie then a snickerdoodle. 😉

Adding in pure molasses and spices is what makes them more classic like a typical spiced cookie and rolled in sucanat and cinnamon just tops it off as a pretty darn good healthy cookie!

But if you’re expecting them to taste like your classic cookie, you will be disappointed. You may want to try my Double Chocolate Cherry Refined Sugar Free Cookie for the texture of a regular cookie.

Yes you are seeing chocolate chips. Those are mini dairy, nut & soy free chips from Enjoy Life. No I didn’t NEED to add them in, but I knew my kiddies would love them so I did. You certainly don’t have to and they will still be delicious.

And you certainly don’t have to roll them in coating before baking as you can see I tried it both ways and I myself, prefer them without the cinnamon coating, but either way they are quite yummy.

Other Treats you might like for the Holidays:

Nutrition Info [with chocolate chips]