Healthy Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies

This super easy recipe for chewy ginger molasses cookies is the healthy dessert recipe you're going to want to keep for the holidays year after year! They're like a gingerbread cookie meets an oatmeal raisin cookie with all the deliciousness of a homemade treat. All you need is a few ingredients and one bowl to make these vegan and gluten free cookies! #HealthyHacks

If chewy cookies with warm holiday spices is what you’re after, these healthy chewy ginger molasses cookies need to be on your to-bake list! They’re huge, bakery style cookies sure to please the whole family!

This super easy recipe for chewy ginger molasses cookies is the healthy dessert recipe you're going to want to keep for the holidays year after year! They're like a gingerbread cookie meets an oatmeal raisin cookie with all the deliciousness of a homemade treat. All you need is a few ingredients and one bowl to make these vegan and gluten free cookies! #HealthyHacks

No matter how crazy things get around the holidays there’s always got to be time for some holiday baking, right!? This healthy chewy ginger molasses cookies recipe needs to be saved in a nice, safe place for years to come because it checks all the holiday dessert boxes. It’s:

  • Holiday flavored
  • Delicious
  • Soft and chewy on the inside
  • Crispy and crunchy on the outside
  • Is made with pretty standard ingredients
  • Is easy to make
  • It’s all done in 1 bowl and a spoon (so little clean up 😉)

This super easy recipe for chewy ginger molasses cookies is the healthy dessert recipe you're going to want to keep for the holidays year after year! They're like a gingerbread cookie meets an oatmeal raisin cookie with all the deliciousness of a homemade treat. All you need is a few ingredients and one bowl to make these vegan and gluten free cookies! #HealthyHacks

Oh, and let’s not forget what’s probably the most important one of all…you can totally safely eat the batter!

This super easy recipe for chewy ginger molasses cookies is the healthy dessert recipe you're going to want to keep for the holidays year after year! They're like a gingerbread cookie meets an oatmeal raisin cookie with all the deliciousness of a homemade treat. All you need is a few ingredients and one bowl to make these vegan and gluten free cookies! #HealthyHacks

Which is scrumptious.

This super easy recipe for chewy ginger molasses cookies is the healthy dessert recipe you're going to want to keep for the holidays year after year! They're like a gingerbread cookie meets an oatmeal raisin cookie with all the deliciousness of a homemade treat. All you need is a few ingredients and one bowl to make these vegan and gluten free cookies! #HealthyHacks

But baking them is yummy too. And depending on how long you bake them you can make them as chewy or as crispy as you’d like. If you want them on the chewier side, bake them just until the edges set but the center is still springy to the touch. The cookies firm up more as they cool, so this will make sure you have a crispy edge and a chewy center.

If you want them crispy all around, bake them until the center is firm to the touch.

This super easy recipe for chewy ginger molasses cookies is the healthy dessert recipe you're going to want to keep for the holidays year after year! They're like a gingerbread cookie meets an oatmeal raisin cookie with all the deliciousness of a homemade treat. All you need is a few ingredients and one bowl to make these vegan and gluten free cookies! #HealthyHacks

You can also pop the dough in the fridge and bake the cookies off as need. Just be aware that they won’t spread as much so you’ll want to shape the cookies to your desired thickness. And just watch them carefully to figure out when they’re done.

This super easy recipe for chewy ginger molasses cookies is the healthy dessert recipe you're going to want to keep for the holidays year after year! They're like a gingerbread cookie meets an oatmeal raisin cookie with all the deliciousness of a homemade treat. All you need is a few ingredients and one bowl to make these vegan and gluten free cookies! #HealthyHacks

While I was recipe testing these delicious morsels I tried making them with just 1 cup of oats instead of 1 ½ cups. They spread out a LOT and got really thin and crispy. So if that’s more your style and flav-ah you can totally make that change. Everything else with the recipe and process is the same 😉.

Substitutions

  • The cornstarch can be subbed with tapioca flour.
  • The molasses can be subbed out with another sticky sweetener like honey, but that’s where a lot of the distinct gingerybread-y flavor comes from.
  • You can use any neutral flavored oil of your choice. The heart healthy ones like walnut, sesame, grapeseed, or even a light flavored olive oil would be your best bet 😉

Bake these up today! They are delicious and profoundly indigestible (not gonna lie – was trying to find other ways to say “delicious” and that was one of the options Google gave me 🤣). 

This super easy recipe for chewy ginger molasses cookies is the healthy dessert recipe you're going to want to keep for the holidays year after year! They're like a gingerbread cookie meets an oatmeal raisin cookie with all the deliciousness of a homemade treat. All you need is a few ingredients and one bowl to make these vegan and gluten free cookies! #HealthyHacks

You can also sandwich two of these cuties together to make a mind blowingly delicious sandwich cookie. I used my vegan cream cheese recipe but you can totally use some cool whip, ice cream, vanilla yogurt, or anything else you can imagine!

Happy Baking, Healthy Hacks

This super easy recipe for chewy ginger molasses cookies is the healthy dessert recipe you're going to want to keep for the holidays year after year! They're like a gingerbread cookie meets an oatmeal raisin cookie with all the deliciousness of a homemade treat. All you need is a few ingredients and one bowl to make these vegan and gluten free cookies! #HealthyHacks


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Yields 8 large cookies

Healthy Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies

Vegan; Gluten Free; Heart Healthy; Easy; 1 Bowl; Soy Free; Egg Free

15 minPrep Time

12 minCook Time

27 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

  • 2 Tbsp flaxmeal
  • 3 Tbsp water, warm
  • 1½ cup old fashioned rolled oats
  • ½ cup almond flour
  • ¼ cup coconut sugar (or brown sugar)
  • 2 Tbsp cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ginger
  • ¼ tsp allspice
  • 1/3 cup molasses
  • ¼ cup oil

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F and line a cookie sheet tray with parchment paper (if you have 3 trays, you can bake all the cookies at the same time. If not, bake them off in 2-3 batches).
  2. In a small bowl, stir together the flaxmeal and water and set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, add the oats, almond flour, sugar, cornstarch, baking powder and soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and allspice. Stir together.
  4. Once the flaxmeal mixture has thickened (about 10 min) add it, the molasses, and oil to the dry ingredients and stir until everything is combined.
  5. Scoop out a little less than ¼ cup of batter for each cookie. Roll the dough into a ball and make sure you use a little pressure to squish all the dough together.
  6. Place the cookies on the sheet tray about 2 inches apart.
  7. Bake for 11-14 min. or until the cookies are firm around the edges but slightly squishy in the center. The cookies will firm up more as they cool, so if you don’t want them super crispy be sure they have still have that squish to them when you take them out.
  8. Let the cookies cool on the tray slightly (about 10 min) then transfer them to a wire rack to finish cooling.
  9. Enjoy right away or store them in an air tight container in the fridge for about a week. They get softer over time, so if you want them to have that crisp snap, eat them on the 1st day ;).
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10 Replies to “Healthy Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies”

  1. What is the frosting in the middle made of?
    1. I used my vegan cream cheese recipe but you can totally use some cool whip, ice cream, vanilla yogurt, or anything else :)
  2. This cookie looks amazing especially with that vegan cream in between. Ps. I read your bio and you’re so funny!! Our humour is too alike. Especially that bit about The Simpsons
    1. Awww thanks Christie!! When are we becoming neighbors!? ;D
  3. This looks and sounds incredible. You could always put some chocolate chips on top ;) I love trying new things. https://www.puro.pk/
    1. Chocolate chips on top sound amazing! :D
  4. These sound very close to what I’ve been craving! But did I miss something? When do you add the flaxmeal-water mixture?
    1. Thanks for catching that Julia!! I've updated the recipe - the flaxmeal mixture is added with the rest of the wet ingredients once it's set up and thickened :) Hope you like the cookies! They're one of my faves :)
  5. What can I sub for almond flour? I don't need it to be GF.
    1. Any other nut flour should do the trick!

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