Name: Sugar Free Grain Free Soft Gingerbread Cookies
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 42 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter (softened); 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon cinnamon liquid stevia; 1/4 cup heavy cream; 1 tablespoon molasses; 2 cups sunflower seeds (ground, or almond flour); 1/2 cup coconut flour; 1/4 cup Swerve or erythritol; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg; 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves; 1/4 teaspoon salt; optional: chocolate chips for decoration

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Soft Grain Free Gingerbread Cookies made without sugar, gluten, flour or nuts!

Soft gingerbread cookies are the perfect addition to your holiday goodie table! Made without flour or grains or nuts or sugar was a difficult task, but I'm always up for a challenge, and these challenged me for sure!

When you see many low carb recipes almost always it contains almond flour. As a mom who wants to keep to a low carb lifestyle and reduce the grains for her children as well, when one child has a tree nut allergy as my youngest does, everything is just a little bit harder to make grain free.

My substitute of choice has been sunflower seeds as a replacement for almond flour. It tends to work somewhat the same, but because of the chlorophyll in the sunflower seeds, if you use baking soda, you will end up with a green tint to most anything you bake. I avoid the baking soda and use baking powder and have had great success.

I've been wanting to make gingerbread men cookies for a long time but just finally got around to them over the last week or so when I had some time to experiment.

I think the biggest reason I thought I couldn't make these sugar free was because to make them authentic I needed to use molasses and I was reluctant for years, but finally decided a little is necessary in order to get that nice brownish color. It's such a small amount and with the 24 cookies this recipes makes, my nutritional data came up with no trace of sugar in the cookies.

I let my kids add the eyes and buttons to the gingerbread men because: 1. I didn't feel like making sugar free buttercream frosting again and 2. We had all ready made frosted sugar cookies and needed something different for our cookie tray. 🙂

They are quite delicate so watch out if you do decide to frost them because the little legs may break easily. But with delicateness comes a tender and perfectly textured cookie. By far this is my families favorite cookie yet! Even the picky hubby was impressed!

Brenda's Notes:

I've often just ground unsalted raw sunflower seeds in my food processor for many of the recipes I've made so far, but have found buying it all ready ground is better and I've purchased it on Amazon. I live in RI so I am not allowed to receive Amazon affiliate sales from mentioning it or if you purchase it. You can still just grind sunflower seeds but if you overground you can end up making it into sunbutter like the texture of peanut butter so try to just pulse the seeds until they are as fine as you can get them without over processing.
If you had have the cinnamon stevia, you could use plain liquid stevia or toffee flavor or vanilla flavored stevia would work nicely too.
Because of my youngest sons tree nut allergy I will not bring home almond flour nor have I made this recipe with almond flour, but I do believe it would work well as a substitute for the sunflower seed meal. Please let me know if you try it.

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Sugar Free Grain Free Soft Gingerbread Cookies

Prep Time30

Cook Time12

Total Time42

Servings: cookies

Calories: 126kcal

Author: Brenda Bennett | Sugar-Free Mom

Ingredients

½ cup butter softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon liquid stevia
¼ cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon molasses
2 cups sunflower seeds ground, or almond flour
½ cup coconut flour
¼ cup Swerve or erythritol
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
¼ teaspoon salt
optional: chocolate chips for decoration

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place the first 6 ingredients into a stand mixer and blend on high until incorporated.
Whisk the rest of the ingredients together in a bowl.
Slowly pour the dry ingredients into the wet in the stand mixer.
Blend until combined. It will be sticky so place dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least and hour.
Flour surface of counter with gluten free flour and your hands with flour then pat down dough or use a rolling pin until it's ½ inch in thickness.
Use cookie cut outs for gingerbread men and place on a silpat lined baking sheet.
Add chocolate chip eyes and buttons if desired.
Bake for 12 minutes.
Allow to cool for 10 minutes before removing gently from pan.
Makes 2 dozen.

Notes

Net Carbs: 3g

Nutrition

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About Brenda

Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.

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