Gingerbread People
An easy recipe for classic Gingerbread People and Shapes that is both gluten free and vegan. Let's get festive!
Ingredients
- 50 grams chickpea flour can also use soy or pea flour
- 50 grams tapioca starch
- 100 grams brown rice flour
- 100 grams buckwheat flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- pinch salt
- 3 tsp powdered ginger
- 80 grams dairy-free margarine
- 2 tbsp treacle
- 60 grams raw, brown or low GI sugar
- 3 tbsp plant-based milk
Instructions
- Heat oven to 160ºC/320ºF, and prepare two large non-stick oven trays.
- In a large bowl, sieve each of the flours and the cinnamon, salt and powdered ginger and mix together until well combined.
- Either in a saucepan, or in a microwave jug, combine the margarine, treacle and sugar and warm just enough until the margarine melts. Then stir together until the sugar dissolves.
- Add to wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and bring together. Add in the 3 tbsp of milk – or just enough until you get a firm dough.
- Roll out the dough onto a floured surface until about ½ an inch thick (I usually use rice flour for this). Use your shape cutters to cut out as many shapes or people as you need.
- Lay your people and shapes onto the baking trays and bake in the oven for about 10 – 15 minutes. Just until lightly browned in colour.
- Once out of the oven, allow to cool for about 10 minutes before moving the cookies onto a wire rack to fully cool and set.
- Time to decorate. Have fun and unleash the inner child!