Gingerbread People (paleo, AIP, vegan)

Author: Julie Hunter

Recipe type: Paleo, Autoimmune Protocol, Vegan-Friendly

Cuisine: Dessert, treat, cookies, holiday

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 12 mins

Total time: 32 mins

Serves: 30-40 cookies (depending on cutter size)

Lots of good alternative gingerbread recipes out there, but the story opportunity was too good to pass up, so I made my own! Easy peasy and this works for a gingerbread house as well (stay tuned for follow-up post). I like a lot of ginger flavor but feel free to reduce/adjust ground ginger if desired.

Ingredients

¾ c tigernut flour
1 c cassava flour
½ c tapioca flour or arrowroot starch
½ tsp sea salt
¾ tsp baking soda
1 tb ground cinnamon
2-3 tsps ground ginger
1 tsp each of ground cloves & nutmeg (sub mace for AIP)
1 tb grassfed gelatin
¾ c ghee (AIP re-intro) or coconut oil (V)
1 tb vanilla
⅓ c blackstrap molasses
2-3 tb maple syrup or honey (to taste)
2 tsp apple cider vinegar
Icing/Glaze
2 tb coconut cream or 4 tb solid cream from chilled coconut milk
2 tb honey
2 tb tapioca flour or arrowroot starch
1 tsp vanilla (optional)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Combine dry ingredients (first 9), whisking until well-mixed.
Add wet ingredients (last 5, in order) and mix well. You should have a dark, pliable dough that is not too sticky or too dry.
Roll out on a (tapioca/arrowroot-) floured piece of parchment paper. Cut out gingerbread shapes as desired.
Place shapes on parchment-lined baking tray. Bake for ~12 minutes, until slightly browned and firm in the middle.
While baking, prepare/mix glaze ingredients.
Once cookies have cooled, decorate at will! Give buttons! Make pants! Go nuts, basically.

Recipe by J.S. Hunter Fiction at https://jshunterfiction.com/gingerbread-people/