Making these gorgeous cookies is more fun than eating them and Christmas holidays are incomplete without baking them. Am I right? These cookies are not just a crowd-pleaser but are adored by kids. Everybody feels confused about whether to eat them or use them as Christmas decorations. But who is stopping to use them as both? 🙂
The cookies are eggless, vegan, and made with whole wheat flour and oats. They have no sugar except for the royal icing. For sweetness, I added jaggery powder and it turned out just perfect and addictive. The royal icing used for decoration is also eggless and vegan which I made using Aquafaba and caster sugar. You don’t need to decorate them with icing. With so many different shapes, they anyway look gorgeous and tempting.
What is a Gingerbread Cookie?
Gingerbread refers to a broad category of goodies that you often make during the Christmas season. The main ingredients for gingerbread include the following:
- Ginger Powder
- Nutmeg
- Cloves
- Cinnamon Powder
- Brown Sugar & Molasses for sweetness
You can do so many things using these ingredients like the classic Christmas Plum Cake, Gingerbread Cookies, Gingerbread Muffins, Gingerbread Smoothies, Hot Chocolate, etc. Be as creative as you can get.
Tips to bake the cookies perfectly
- Sifting: Sifting dry ingredients is very important. Sometimes your sugar or flour contains some tiny lumps that are unnoticeable. And it gets difficult to form a smooth dough if they have any lumps.
- Room temperature ingredients: Make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature. We do not want extra soft or hard butter for the recipe. Take the butter out of the fridge 30 minutes before baking.
- Refrigerating the dough: Butter melts while you mix the dough and roll. That makes the dough extra soft to handle. Refrigerating the dough for 25 to 30 minutes helps in making it firm and easy to roll and shape.
How is the cookie texture?
These cookies are soft but tender enough to hold the shape and take a nice bite. These are not soft and chewy. You take a bite and it just melts in your mouth.
What is Royal Icing?
Royal icing is a mixture of egg whites and powdered sugar. These two ingredients are whisked until they become light, fluffy, and shiny. To make vegan royal icing, we use Aquafaba instead of egg whites. It gives the same texture and shine that you get with egg whites.
It is used to decorate gingerbread cookies. We make two kinds of consistency – outline consistency and flood consistency. Outline consistency is used to make outlines of the cookies that hold the flood consistency of icing when you fill the cookie with it.
How to store these cookies?
You can put these cookies in an air-tight container and leave them on the counter for up to 10 days (or more). But it also depends on the temperature of the place you are living in. To make them last longer, you can even put them in the freezer.
Can we freeze the cookie dough?
You can refrigerate the cookie dough for 4 to 5 days.
You can even put it in a zip-lock back and freeze it for up to a month (or more). When you want to bake cookies, put the dough in the refrigerator for a few hours to soften, and then roll and bake cookies.
Is this recipe vegan-friendly?
Yes. All the ingredients used in this recipe are plant-based and vegan.
More Christmas Cookies – just as good
- Almond and Cranberry Biscotti (Eggless, No Sugar, No Refined Flour)
- White Chocolate Filled Butter Cookies
- 100% Whole Wheat Gingerbread Cookies
- Eggless Peppernut Cookies
- “Shaun The Sheep” Chocolate Cookies (Eggless, No Sugar, No Refined Flour)
P.S. All the cookies are eggless.
Now grab all the ingredients because you are ready to make these tempting and gorgeous Christmas cookies at home. It is perfect to make in this festive season and gift to your family and friends. Baking these cookies during the Christmas holidays can be a fun exercise to do with the kids. They are going to enjoy it. Bake an extra batch so that you can gift these cookies to your family and friends too.
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Happy Baking.
Love from us
Richa
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