Low Fodmap Gingerbread Men
A delicious spicy gingerbread men cookie that is free of high fodmap molasses and full of ginger goodness.
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups AP white flour or King Arthur Measure for Measure GF FLour
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Allspice
- 1/2 - 1 tsp Ginger (ground)
- 3/4 cup Butter
- 1 1/2 cups Brown Sugar
- 1 large Egg
- Dried Cranberries or raisins for trim
- Sugared orange slices or dried cherries for trim
- Decorating Icing (White)
Instructions
- Directions
- In a large ceramic bowl, whisk together flour, soda, spices and salt. In the bowl of a stand mixer, place butter and brown sugar. Beat on medium until creamy and fluffy. Add the egg and beat well until it is incorporated into the mixture.With the mixer reduced to low, add in the dry ingredients 1/3 at a time making sure each addition is incorporated well before adding the next third. Stop and scrape down the bowl to make sure all the flour gets into the butter mixture before continuing to add the rest of the flour. When all is added, stop beating. Take bowl off the stand and with a large wooden spoon, continue to mix in the flour until it is incorporated into the dough.Gather the dough into a ball and then pat it down into a flat disk so it will be easy to roll out. Wrap the dough in plastic and cover with foil or place in a zip lock bag. Chill in the fridge a few hours or overnight. See note above about how to proceed after chilling, and how to roll out and bakeBefore baking the cookies, place the fruit sliced as a mouth and the cranberries as buttons on your gingerbread men. If you prefer, just bake without fruit and decorate with icing when cool. I myself am icing challenged and prefer to use fruit for mouths and buttons, but do whatever you love. Merry Christmas.