Gluten-Free Vegan Ginger Cookies

These Gluten-Free Vegan Ginger Cookies are soft and chewy, warmly spiced and perfectly sweet! The best festive treat!

Why you'll love these Gluten-Free Vegan Ginger Cookies:

• they're soft and chewy
• they're fudgy
• they're subtly spiced
• they're date-sweetened
• they're refined sugar free
• they're oil-free 
• they're gluten-free
• they're grain-free
• they're paleo-friendly
• they're easy to make
• they're ready in 30 minutes
• they're perfect for Christmas
• they make a great edible gift!

How to make these Gluten-Free Vegan Ginger Cookies

Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the full recipe.

• Place the dates, salt, vanilla, ginger, cinnamon, mixed spice and almond butter in a food processor or blender.

• Whizz until completely smooth.

• Transfer to a glass mixing bowl, add the ground walnuts and mix well.

Tip: To make ground walnuts, place walnuts in a food processor and pulse until you get a fine powder.

• Take a heaped tablespoon of the mixture and use your hands to form it into a small, circular, thick patty.
• Lay it out onto a rectangular baking tray lined with baking paper.
• Repeat until the rest of the batter is used up - you should be able to make 9 cookies.

Tip: If you find the mixture too gooey to shape with your hands, you can use a cookie scoop instead, and use your hands or the back of a spoon to flatten them slightly.

• Bake in the oven for around 12 minutes - don’t worry if they’re quite soft when you take them out as they will firm up as they cool down.

• Drizzle with melted chocolate, if desired.

How long do these Ginger Cookies keep for?

These Ginger Cookies keep in an airtight container in the fridge for a good few days.

Substitutions you can make to this recipe:

• you can substitute the almond butter with any other nut or seed butter: peanut butter, cashew butter, sunflower seed butter etc
• the ground walnuts can be substituted with ground almonds or ground sunflower seeds
• you can add chocolate chips to the cookies!

More gluten-free vegan cookie recipes:

• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
• Blueberry Breakfast Cookies
• Peanut Butter Cookies
• Oatmeal Cookies
• Snickerdoodles
• Sugar Cookies
• Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Carrot Cake Cookies
• Millionaire Shortbread

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Gluten-Free Vegan Ginger Cookies

These Gluten-Free Vegan Ginger Cookies are soft and chewy, warmly spiced and perfectly sweet! The best festive treat!

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: gluten-free ginger cookies, vegan cookie recipe, vegan ginger cookies

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Total Time: 27 minutes

Servings: 9 cookies

Calories: 106kcal

Author: Rhian Williams

Ingredients

• ▢ 90 g (½ cup) pitted dates soaked overnight in cold water or in hot water for 10 minutes
• ▢ Pinch salt
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ 1 cm (½ inch) fresh ginger , peeled
• ▢ ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon mixed spice (or sub a mixture of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg
)
• ▢ 3 tablespoons smooth almond butter (or sub cashew or peanut butter)
• ▢ 60 g (½ cup) ground walnuts *(or sub ground almonds/almond meal**)

To decorate (optional):

• ▢ Dark chocolate , melted (ensure vegan/gluten-free if necessary)

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit)
• Drain the soaked dates and place in a blender or food processor with the salt, vanilla, ginger, cinnamon, mixed spice and almond butter
• Whizz until completely smooth
• Transfer to a bowl, add the ground walnuts and mix well
• Take a heaped tablespoon of the mixture and use your hands to form it into a small, circular, thick patty***
• Lay it out onto a baking tray lined with baking paper (no need to grease it)
• Repeat until the rest of the batter is used up - you should be able to make 9 cookies
• Bake in the oven for around 12 minutes - don’t worry if they’re quite soft when you take them out as they will firm up as they cool down
• Drizzle with melted chocolate, if desired - leave the chocolate to harden before putting away to store
• Leave to cool completely before storing in an airtight container - keeps in the fridge for a good few days

Notes

*To make ground walnuts, place walnuts in a food processor and pulse until you get a fine powder.

**You can alternatively use almond flour

***If you find the mixture too gooey to shape with your hands, you can use a cookie scoop instead, and use your hands or the back of a spoon to flatten them slightly.

Nutrition Facts

Gluten-Free Vegan Ginger Cookies

Amount Per Serving

Calories 106 Calories from Fat 63

% Daily Value*

Fat 7g11%

Potassium 134mg4%

Carbohydrates 9g3%

Fiber 1g4%

Sugar 6g7%

Protein 2g4%

Calcium 29mg3%

Iron 0.5mg3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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