This gluten free gingerbread man cookie recipe can also be used to make other shapes, such as a star, when they could be called “Star Cookies’, or ‘Birthday Cookies’ if you are making them for a child’s birthday. Children just love the traditional gingerbread man, though: these are hard to beat.
Preheat your oven to 150C
- 65 ml of olive oil or grape seed oil
- 2 tbsp treacle
- 150 gm of chick pea flour
- 50 gm of rice flour
- 50 gm of arrowroot or tapioca flour
- 50 gm of soy flour
- 100 gm caster sugar
- 2 tbsp powdered ginger
- 1 large beaten egg
- pinch of salt
Method: Gently warm the treacle and oil. Stir with a wooden spoon. Remove from heat and add the beaten egg and the ginger. Mix well, then add the chick pea flour and the white rice flour. Stir well in.
Add the salt and the soy and arrowroot flours, this time kneading the flours in with the hands.
Roll out on a lightly floured board which has been floured with a sprinkling of rice flour. Cut into the desired gingerbread shapes, and place carefully on a greased oven tray.
Cook for just 10 minutes in the center of the oven. If your oven is not very ‘hot’, then you may need to pre heat the oven to 170C, or leave the cookies in for slightly longer.
Leave on the tray to cool, and then ice with your favorite icing, and decorate using currants for eyes and a dab of a cherry for a nose. A smiley mouth can be drawn in the icing, or a wee sliver of orange peel can be placed on the icing to form the mouth.