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Vegan Gluten-Free Gingerbread Men

  • Prep Time: 480 minutes
  • Cook Time: 13 minutes
  • Total Time: 493 minutes
  • Yield: 8 cookies 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1012 pitted Medjool dates
  • 1/4 cup coconut sugar
  • 1 1/4 cup oat flour
  • 2 tsps lemon juice
  • 2 tsps fresh grated ginger
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 12 tbsps unsweetened applesauce* (see note)
  • TO DECORATE
  • Cream from one can of full fat coconut milk (whipped)
  • Pomegranate arils.

Instructions

  1. Put all the ingredients in a food processor. Process until it forms a sticky moist dough.
  2. Shape into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight (or at least 6-8 hours).
  3. The following day, preheat the oven to 350F.
  4. Roll out the dough until about 1/4 inch thick. Flour your rolling surface very well to avoid sticking.
  5. Cut out with a cookie cutter. If you have a lot of excess dough, you can re-roll it one more time to cut out more cookies.
  6. Bake for 12-14 minutes at 350F.
  7. Let them cool before removing from the pan and decorating.