I enjoy making cookies during the Christmas season to share with family and friends but don’t always love the way they make me feel. As a special treat to myself, I created these old-fashioned Vegan Spiced Molasses Cookies using my own gluten-free mix and organic blackstrap molasses. A slightly spicy and perfectly sweet holiday treat that’s easier on my digestive tract and allows me to join in on the festivities and whimsy of the season.
Vegan and Gluten-Free Spiced Molasses Cookies
These pretty little cookies were made using the cookie cutters I had as a child. Yep, they’re over 40 years old and still in the original box. I’ve always appreciated and absolutely LOVED cookies!
Cookie Cutters from the 1960’s
Why Molasses in our Vegan Spiced Molasses Cookies?
Molasses, often used in holiday baking, is a byproduct of sugar manufacturing and often used in gingerbread recipes. Eating sugar, even molasses is not optimal if you suffer from any chronic illness, however, molasses does provide some nutritional value in the form of essential minerals and trace amounts of vitamins, including copper, iron and magnesium.
