Low-Sugar Healthy Molasses Cookies
(This is an old cookie recipe using flour that has been removed from the site. I am keeping the printer-friendly version here in case someone is looking for it who was a fan of the recipe.)
Ingredients
- 6 T butter (see notes)
- 4 T Monkfruit Sweetener, or sweetener of your choice
- 1/2 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 cup almond flour (see notes)
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp. ground allspice
- 1/3 cup molasses (see notes)
Instructions
- Put the margarine, butter, or coconut oil and sweetener of your choice into a medium-sized plastic bowl and use hand beater to beat until the mixture is creamed together. (You can use a stand mixer, but I thought it was easier with a hand beater for this small amount.)
- In a smaller bowl, combine white whole wheat flour, whole wheat pastry flour, and almond flour, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, and ground allspice.
- Add half the flour mixture to the bowl with the sweetener mixture, along with half the molasses, and beat at low speed until fully combined.
- Then add the other half of the flour mixture and other half of the molasses and beat again.
- When dough is all combined, mold it into a ball, cover the bowl with cling wrap, and refrigerate for 40-60 minutes, or longer if you get distracted.
- When youโre ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 350F/180C.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper (or oil it if you prefer.)The original recipe called for cookies to be rolled out with a rolling pin and cut with cookie cutters, so if you want shapes other than circles you can definitely do that.
- I used a cookie scoop to scoop out a heaping tablespoon of dough, then used a flat metal turner to smash the cookies (using another turner to scrape them off.)
- Make cookies about 3/8 inch thick.
- Bake cookies for 14-16 minutes, or until theyโre just starting to look golden on the edges. (Shorter baking time will make chewier cookies and longer baking time will make crispier cookies.)
- Let cookies cool 20-30 minutes.
Notes
I prefer Golden Monkfruit Sweetener (affiliate link) for baking. You can buy Almond Flour (affiliate link) at Amazon.com if you have a hard time finding it. I used butter but you can use coconut oil or margarine if you prefer. Don’t use blackstrap molasses, unless you want a stronger molasses flavor and don’t mind a few more carbs.
I haven’t tried freezing these but I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t freeze well.
Recipe adapted from Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies in the Bobโs Red Mill Baking Book.
6 Comments on “Low-Sugar Healthy Molasses Cookies”
Your cookies look very tasty! Great recipe for the holiday season.
Angelika, maybe so, but there is a minimal amount of molasses compared to the other ingredients, so the total amount is low. There is 78 grams of sugar for 20 cookies, which comes out to just under 4 grams of sugar per cookie. That's certainly not very high.
I also added almond flour to make the GI lower than cookies with all whole wheat flour.
I found your blog while searching for low GI resources on the web and much say I appreciate your South Beach approach. However I cannot agree that those cookies are low sugar. Molasses is a sugar that scores pretty high on the GI scale.
I do like your other low/no sugar flour-less cookies though!
Cheers,
Angelika
Your low sugar cookies always look so delicious! I love the almond infusion in these…definitely Christmas-worthy.
Kalyn, anything sugar-free or low sugar makes me excited. I love these cookies because of that!
Hey there! Yum. I have a gluten free recipe for molasses cookies that I'll have to whip up, now that I saw this one!