Paleo Gingerbread cookies — Angela Vallone Soprano

My friend GiGi and I had an amazing girly night the other night. She is 100% paleo and I try to eat as healthy as possible, within reason, so we made these delicious paleo gingerbread men. I found a recipe for sugar cookies on this amazing website (paleofoundation.com) and adapted it to be allergy friendly for me and added some delicious spices to make them ginger cookies. So here is the final product that we made up, and it turned out surprisingly well :)

Paleo Gingerbread Men

1 1/2 cups sunflower seed flour

1 cup tapioca starch/flour

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/3 cup butter

1 cup date sugar or coconut sugar

1 egg

1/4 cup applesauce

1 tbs vanilla

5 drops Doterra Ginger oil

1 drop Doterra clove oil

1 tbs cinnamon (or cinnamon oil)

So first things first, cream the sugar and butter together. Then add all other wet ingredients. In a separate bowl mix together the other dry ingredients.

I am such a messy cook :D but it always tastes good...

So once the batter is mixed together, it may seem a little sticky, but its ok. Put down some parchment paper and sprinkle it with some extra tapioca starch. you will probably use about a half cup of extra tapioca starch when rolling out the cookies. Roll the dough around in the tapioca a bit to make sure the outside isn't super sticky. Then put a second piece of parchment on top and get to rolling! Roll it out until it's about a cm thick, then whip out your favorite shape cookie cutter and start cutting :)

In honor of Germany we used the leftover dough to make a gingerbread pretzel lol

So, now that all of your cookies are cut, bake them for 12 minutes on a parchment lined cookie sheet at 350 degrees. Enjoy all of your delicious healthy cookies when they are done :)