Gingerbread man cookies with jaggery

Gingerbread cookies are the cookies made with spices such as dry ginger, cinnamon, cloves etc. In the winter weather it is good to add some spices in our daily diet. Adding spices to cookie is ideal for the kids to increase their immunity power.  In this recipe, I changed few of the ingredients to make it little more healthier. Let's run into the recipe.




INGREDIENTS 

Whole wheat flour    - 1.5 Cup 

Jaggery powder          - 3/4 Cup 

Coconut oil                  - 1/2 Cup 

Baking soda                 - 1/4 Tsp 

Baking powder           - 1/2 Tsp 

Salt                                 - 1/4 Tsp 

Dry ginger powder    - 1 Tsp 

Cinnamon                     - 1/2 inch 

Clove                              - 2 

Cardamom                   - 2 

Cookie cutter 


PROCEDURE

1. In a large bowl, add coconut oil and jaggery powder and whisk very well with wire whisk or electric hand mixer.



2. In another bowl, take the dry ingredients whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda,salt,dry ginger powder, ground other spices and add along with it.




3. Sieve all the dry ingredients into the coconut oil and jaggery mixture.

4. Mix well to make crumble.



5. Then add water little by little to make well combined dough .



6. No need to knead, just wrap in the dough in cling wrap or zip lock and refrigerate for at least 2 hrs or overnight.

7. On next day, take dough out from refrigerator for 30 min. 

8. Roll the dough using rolling pin into 1/2 inch thick and using desire cookie mold ( here I used gingerbread man and star cookie mold )make different  shapes.

9. Reroll the scrap dough and repeat the same with remaining dough.

10. Preheat oven to 350F

11. Transfer the molded cookie dough into the baking tray lined with parchment paper.

12. Bake for 10- 12 minutes or until the cookie get brown from edges.


13. Transfer hot cookies into wire rack and allow to cool for a while.

14. Yummy gingerbread man is ready to run into the tummy.



15. Cookie stays fresh upto a week at room temperature in airtight container.




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