Paleo and Keto Friendly 🙂
Preparation Time (incl. kitchen working place cleaning) is under 25 minutes!
Hurray! Soon Christmas holiday and the time for gingerbread cookies has started!
My gingerbread cookies contain healthy paleo and keto friendly ingredients such as organic coconut butter and organic whole flaxseed flour.
I love to use coconut butter quite often since it adds a subtle yummy coconut flavor.
Also, it has other health benefits, for example:
- – Coconut butter helps to maintain cholesterol level, weight loss, digestion, metabolism.
– Coconut butter supports immunity system and can even fight viruses and bacterias.
Why whole flax flour in this baking recipe?
- – First of all, the flaxseed flour is a perfect thickening ingredient and agent.
- – Also, flaxseed has a huge amount of health benefits. It is particularly high B vitamins which are very important in cell function and energy metabolism.
- – And more, the flax flour is an excellent source of copper that play an important role in immune health and brain development, as well iron metabolism.
Ingredients: (for about 18-20 cookies of medium size)
• ¾ cup organic Goji berries or raspberry if you like better
• 1 stick organic coconut butter, softened
• 2 medium organic eggs
• ¾ cups whole flax flour and 3 cups whole wheat or rye flour(plus you’ll need a little extra for your working desk)
• 2 teaspoons ground organic ginger
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• ½ teaspoon ground organic cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon freshly grated organic nutmeg – if you don’t want to grate nutmeg, use ground, but since fresh nutmeg is more potent, you’ll need to use a bit extra ground.
• ½ teaspoon organic cloves
How to make Homemade Sugarfree Organic Gingerbread Cookies with Goji Berries vegan keto and paleo friendly?
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 C) or save energy and heat an oven after the dough is ready.
2. Stir together dry ingredients in a medium bowl .
3. With an electric mixer, set speed to medium and mix coconut butter for about 3 minutes.
4. Add egg whites, Gobi berries and continue to mix on medium speed for another minute.
5. Gradually add the bowl of dry ingredients and mix on medium speed for another minute, or until all ingredients are combined.
6. Refrigerate dough for 5-10 minutes or until chilled through and slightly hardened.
7. Roll dough between two sheets of parchment paper, to about 1/3 inch (0.8 cm) thickness.
8. Use cookie cutters to cut your cookie shapes or give your kids a pile of said dough. Have them roll out dough on a lightly floured surface, until dough is about 1/8 inch (0.3 cm) thick. Cut out designs of your choosing with cookie cutters.
9. Place cookies in a single layer on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
10. Bake for no longer than 5-7 minutes at 350 F (180 C) or until the cookies are golden around the edge. Longer they bake, the crunchier they get.
11. Cool down your cookies and decorate them as you wish!
For decorating the cookies there are tons of options. I love to use organic yogurt or cream and non-toxic food coloring. Be more creative and choose your own favourite stuff !
The cookies taste amazing warmed up and served with a scoop of organic frozen vanilla yogurt, and look adorable on Santa’s cookie plate!
Enjoy and Merry Christmas!
