Name: Vegan & Gluten-Free Molasses Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 16 min
Total time: 31 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: gluten-free
Ingredients: 1 chia egg (1 tablespoon chia seeds + 3 tablespoons of water); 1 cup cassava flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1/3 cup peanut butter or almond butter (unsweetened); ¼ cup applesauce; ½ cup blackstrap molasses; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 tablespoon brown sugar (optional, for topping)

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These Vegan & Gluten-Free Molasses Cookies are a delicious way to celebrate the holidays. They’re grain-free and paleo too!

Healthy Holiday Treats

This is the time of year when sugar cravings and indulgences can get a little out of control, amiright? Rather than cutting out sugar completely, my suggestion is to make healthier treats instead. So, sub out refined cane sugar for more unrefined sweeteners like molasses, maple syrup, whole dates, coconut sugar, or honey. Most unrefined sweeteners have some nutritional value, too!

Vegan & Gluten-Free Molasses Cookie Ingredients

I’m one of those annoying people (I think it’s annoying) who has multiple food sensitivities, including to gluten, some grains, dairy, and eggs. So, a lot of my recipes are naturally vegan and gluten-free, which makes them great for other folks who have food restrictions. Grain-free treats usually meet paleo diet standards, too, especially when using unrefined sweeteners like molasses.

The ingredients in this Vegan & Gluten-Free Molasses Cookies include:

cassava flour
baking powder
ground cinnamon
nut butter
blackstrap molasses
chia seeds + water to make a chia egg
vanilla extract
brown sugar (optional, for topping)

How to Make These Vegan Molasses Cookies

The first step is to pre-heat your oven and make the chia egg. A chia egg takes about 10 minutes to thicken. All you have to do is combine a tablespoon of chia seeds with 3 tablespoons of water. So easy!

Next, you just combine the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and then add the wet ingredients, including the chia egg. The batter will be fairly thick and a beautiful color due to the molasses. The batter smells heavenly, too!

Drop the batter onto your cookie sheet and top each cookie with a pinch of brown sugar for extra sparkle and sweetness. These are holiday cookies, after all.

These cookies only take about 16-18 minutes to cook. They’re so soft and delicately sweet. I think you’re really going to love them!

Other Healthy Holiday Treats You Might Like

Cassava Flour Holiday Cookies
Paleo Shortbread Chocolate Cups
Chocolate Buckwheat Brittle
Homemade Peppermint Patties
Date-Nut Bread
Vegan Peppermint Bites (gluten-free, no added sugar)

Here’s the printable recipe for these Vegan & Gluten-Free Molasses Cookies: