Advent Calendar Cookbook—Day 11: Vegan Molasses Cookies

Recipe submitted by Luisa Cywinski, Director of Access Services

Ingredients:

• 2/3 c vegetable oil.
• ¼ c blackstrap molasses.
• 2 tbsp ground flax seeds whisked into 3 tbsp warm water.
• 1 c brown sugar.
• 2 c flour.
• ½ tsp salt.
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon.
• 1 tsp ground cloves.
• 1 tsp ground ginger.
• 1 tsp baking soda.
• ½ c crystallized ginger, diced.
• Granulated sugar for coating.

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Whisk together oil, molasses, flax seeds mixed with water, and brown sugar. In a separate bowl, sift together remaining ingredients (except for crystallized ginger and granulated sugar).
• Combine wet and dry ingredients; mix well.
• Fold in crystallized ginger. Refrigerate, covered, until firm, about 1 hour. (It’s fine if some oil separates; you can just stir it back in later.)
• Shape cookie dough into 1″ balls, and roll in sugar to coat. Bake for ~6 minutes on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Yield: about 2½ dozen 2″ cookies.

Recipe via Vegan Cooking Blog by Claryn.