Soft Gingerbread Cookies with Natural Icing
Soft Gingerbread Cookies with Natural Icing
Yield: 20 medium-sized cookies
These soft gingerbread cookies with naturally colored icing is a delicious healthier christmas treat for you and your loved ones! Loaded with warming, digestion-stimulating spices, these cookies are super easy to make and will leave you wanting more. This recipe is inspired by Pinch of Yum’s blog, but I have taken a TCM spin on them using ingredients like matcha, red yeast rice, goji, and osmanthus to decorate the cookies. I hope you enjoy making them with your friends and family!
Ingredients
Cookies:
- ¾ cup vegan unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ⅓ cup of molasses
- 2 ¼ cup of flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- ¾ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp ginger
- 1 tbsp all spice powder
- 1 tbsp chen pi powder or clove powder
Glaze and Toppings:
- 1 tbsp melted butter
- 1.5 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp soy milk
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tsp matcha
- 2 tsp red yeast rice powder
- Optional toppings: goji, lavender, osmanthus flower, pomegranate flower
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Then add the eggs and molasses. Mix all together.
- Add the flour, baking soda, salt and spices. Mix until dough forms.
- Then scoop into small 1.5-inch balls. Bake for 10-15 minutes; then remove from the oven and allow cookies to cool.
- To make the glaze, mix melted butter, powdered sugar, soy milk, and salt together and whisk until smooth. Separate the white glaze into 3 equal portions. Place one portion aside, then add matcha to one, and red yeast rice powder to the other. Now, you have 3 kinds of glaze.
- Dip one side of the cooled cookies into glaze and run the edge of the cookie alongside the side of the bowl to remove excess drips, set on parchment wax paper and continue to decorate cookies as you please!
Dairy-free | Nut-free
Functions:
- Warm the body and dispel cold.
- Help stimulate digestion and relieve indigestion.
Organ-Meridian: Stomach, Kidney
Energetics: Warming