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Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan)

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The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don’t have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!

Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don't have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!

You can not have Christmas without GINGERBREAD COOKIES! It’s like Christmas without Santa (it just can’t happen). I told you all about my love for soft gingerbread men in this ginger cookie post last year and I knew I had to actually bring back that classic, a real gingerbread cookie, this year! Trying to emulate the soft gingerbread men my grandma used to have on our Christmas Eve dessert table was going to be a hard feat!

 Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don't have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!

I think I nailed it, though! I was in sad gingerbread man deprivation for far too long. Plus, if you didn’t already know, Santa expects gingerbread men on his plate. If he doesn’t get them…he won’t leave you presents! We can’t have that, now can we? I mean, for all we know, Santa may have celiac disease or maybe he went vegan! We need to be able to accommodate!

Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don't have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!

Random tangent ahead: You know what isn’t accommodating? High school cooking classes. I was deterred from signing up because of my food allergies (I took Interior Design instead). I remember there were 2 cooking classes: one was “gourmet” and if you took it in the Fall semester, you made gingerbread houses! The other was “basics” where you learned what a whisk was.

Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don't have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!

I could have made a killer gingerbread house (and Aced that class, mind you), but it’s not like I could be in a room covered in flour…and I would never use eggs or dairy. My dreams to show off my culinary skills to my peers were dashed. Funny thing was, the interior design room was right across the hall from the cooking room. Smells of cinnamon, butter, and baked goodies always filled the air. How they did all that in a 40 minute period blows my mind, especially since no one ever starts class on time!

Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don't have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!

High school. Seems so long ago, yet also just like it was yesterday. At least I can be really grateful for the fact that I no longer have a high school “winter break”. You know…the one week you get off after Christmas. Ridiculous! When we get to college we actually have a decent winter break, not just one measly week! I need time to “play” with my new presents! My brother is lamenting those winter breaks now that he has a full-time job for the first time. (Guess I’ll have the house to myself…and the kitchen!) Which means I can just keep baking up gingerbread men (and friends!) If you noticed, I made men AND trees! Whatever cookie cutter you have will do! Gingerbread are meant to be fun and festive, so go crazy with shapes!

Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies

Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don't have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!

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Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan)

The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don’t have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and mix together well, forming a thick dough.
  3. Roll the dough out to about 1/4 inch thick on a greased Silpat (or parchment paper).
  4. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters, peel the extra dough away, and repeat rolling out the dough until you’ve used it all up.
  5. Bake the cookies on a Silpat-lined baking sheet for 12-15 minutes. Remove and let cool.

Notes

*If you don’t have cookie cutters, you can just make these normal round cookies!

Classic Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The holiday season is not complete without Gingerbread Cookies! These classic gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free gingerbread men (and friends) are such a fun sweet treat for all to have this Christmas. Food allergies don't have to get in the way with this dessert recipe!

Yay! Gingerbread men and trees! You don’t understand the joy I felt when I was finally about to enjoy a soft gingerbread man once again! Far too long, my friends, far too long! So roll out some gingerbread cookies, bake, grab a glass of almond milk, and dunk these special classic cookies right into have a very enjoyable holiday evening!

So tell me:

+ Gingerbread men? Yay or nay? I know some people don’t like gingerbread 🙁

+ Did you take a cooking class in high school? (I don’t think I missed out on much! I could have taught the class!)

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  2. Nikki Frank-Hamilton says

    Pinned to save for next year, along with your snickerdoodle recipe. I love that I can make a variety of cookies and treats while using the same blends of flours. I have not worked with some of the GF varieties, and whipping up these and a few of your other recipes will give us a great treat and give me experience with working with these flours!

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  7. Liz says

    Yes, I love any ginger cookie! Yours are so cute! And I took a Home Ec in junior high, then another cooking classs in high schoool in the US and again when we lived in Vancouver for a year!

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  14. kimmythevegan says

    Christmas without gingerbread cookies is a travesty! And I’m so glad you have come up with a tasty gluten-free recipe for us to try – I have been deprived for far too long myself 😉

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  16. Genie says

    These look good. I like teff flour but had never thought of using it in gingerbread cookies. I use about half buckwheat flour in mine. I like the flavor of buckwheat but I know some people don’t and some do not understand that it is not related to wheat.

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      I knew I had to make them for everyone! I missed them so much and I know so many others do too!

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  29. Cathy says

    I’m delighted that you’ve developed gluten, dairy, and egg free gingerbread cookies! I think you’re more than making up for missing that high school cooking class!

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  31. Hannah says

    These look perfect! I had to laugh though…we tried to make gingerbread houses last weekend and they were such a disaster! Like, how I was able to do it with ease as a kid I’ll never understand haha

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Haha, yes!! Gingerbread men (and other shapes!) literally never fail to make me smile and feel merry!

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  44. Farrah says

    Totally with you there–gingerbread is such a classic holiday treat! I’m so happy I got to try em’! 😛 It was super good! <3

    I didn't take cooking class in high school but it was right across the hall from me when I was in journalism, so I was always a happy camper when they came by to sell their treats for 25 cents! 😛

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  45. Mandy says

    Yay for gingerbread men AND trees!!! These are adorable!! <3 I'm with you…Christmas just isn't Christmas without gingerbread treats! And by the looks of these, I'd say you definitely nailed it!!! Haha…well, high school for me was 20 years ago, but I do vaguely remember a very lame cooking class my freshman year 😉 and at the time I was vegetarian without any known allergies…my, how things have changed! Willow just saw the pics in this post and said, "Oooooh, Mom! Can we make these??" xo

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  48. Eileen says

    Love seeing gluten, dairy and egg free recipes! We stay away from all of those due to my son’s allergies. Are these cookies hard or soft? Also do you have another other cookies you recommend for the holidays? Thanks!

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  58. Nico @ yumsome says

    I love gingerbread, so I’m very much a ‘gingerbread – yay!’ kind of person! Plus, I live near the Alps… it’s kind of required!

    And I *did* teach Home-Ec classes when I was in high school. And sewing too!

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  66. Choclette says

    It’s all about the mince pies on this side of the pond and that’s what Santa gets too, but I now really feel I need to make some gingerbread men 🙂 Well done for coming up with a tasty version you can eat and enjoy.

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  68. rachel @ Athletic Avocado says

    I love gingerbread cookies! They are my favorite holiday-ish cookies but I only like them when they are soft just like these! I didn’t take a cooking class in high school either but I already knew how to cook so I wasn’t missing much lol.

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