Christmas gingerbread cookies for healthy sweet tooths!

Do you fancy healthy and moist gingerbread cookies during the Christmas season?

Then this wonderful recipe is just right for you!

The DATE BEAR A heartfelt thank you to dear Betti for the sweet recipe support!
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You will need:

For the cookies:

100 g (ground) hazelnuts

150 g oat/einkorn flour

1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar baking powder

1 tsp gingerbread spice

pinch of cinnamon

25 g coconut oil

50 g date paste

80 g applesauce

1 tsp lemon juice

Optional: 1-2 tbsp date syrup

Optional: For the glaze, dark chocolate

or: 2 tablespoons of coconut oil - 2 tbsp date syrup - 1 tbsp raw cacao powder.

Here's how it's done:

Gently toast the ground hazelnuts in a dry pan. Combine all the dry ingredients. Mix the date paste, applesauce, and lemon juice. Melt the coconut oil and add it to the date-applesauce mixture. Combine the dry and wet ingredients and knead everything into a ball of dough. Chill. Roll out the dough, cut out gingerbread shapes, decorate with nuts, and bake at 180°C (350°F) for 10 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. For the glaze, gently warm all the ingredients and mix them together. Coat the cookies.

The DATTELBÄR wishes you lots of fun baking and snacking <3

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