Get your holiday gingerbread fix while staying on track – these soft and chewy cookies are sure to curb your cravings.
Classic ginger, molasses, cinnamon, and nutmeg flavors combined with vanilla protein powder provide amazing flavor with the right macros. Perfect with a cup of coffee and a healthy swap for a coffee shop pastry.
High Protein Soft Baked Ginerbread Cookies
Ingredients
- 80 g Trutein vanilla protein powder *Use code “Modus20” at checkout for a 20% off discount*
- 28 g White chocolate
- 15 g Gluten-free white flour
- 1 1/2 tsp Ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp Nutmeg
- 15 g Sunflower butter
- 9 g Blackstrap molasses
- 50 g Unsweetened flax milk (or almond milk)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- In a food processor, pulverize white chocolate into very small pieces/powder
- In a large bowl, mix all dry ingredients together, including spices and white chocolate
- In a separate bowl, combine sunflower butter, molasses, and flax milk. Blend with a hand mixer until liquid is uniform.
- Add liquid mixture to dry mixture and thoroughly combine using the hand mixer until dough clumps form.
- Roll dough into one large ball and place on a piece of parchment paper.
- Roll out dough into a square, just under 1/4″ thick.
- Punch out your cookies with you desired form. If there is a lot of extra dough after punching, re-roll the remainder out and then punch out more cookies.
- Optional: Add sprinkles to the cookies. Gently press them into the surface so that they do not fall off after baking
- Place cookies onto parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 4-5 minutes
- Allow them to cool completely on the baking sheet before eating.
Notes
Nutrition info for the ENTIRE batch of dough:
596 Calories | 62.7 g Protein | 49.2 g Carbs | 17.2 g Fat
Divide these numbers by the number of cookies you made to get the nutrition info per cookie. I chose to make five large ginergbread men:
119 Calories | 12.5 P | 9.8C | 3.4 F
The sprinkles add 5 calories per cookie.
Unsweetened almond milk also works in this recipe, as does regular flour.
Give this recipe a try and let me know how it goes!
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