Healthy gingerbread

7. 10. 2025

Enjoy delicious Christmas gingerbread cookies that do not contain refined sugar!

Ingredients

400 g spelled flour
200 g of honey
60 g of high-quality butter
2 eggs
½ teaspoon of soda
1 tablespoon of gingerbread spice

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C and line a tray with baking paper.
Sift the flour through a sieve and add softened butter, honey, eggs, soda and spices.
Whip a stiff dough and put it in the fridge for 12 hours.
Once the dough is ready, take it out of the fridge and let it rest, at room temperature, for at least 1 hour.
Roll out the dough to a thick plate of about 3-4 millimeters and cut out the shapes as you like.
Put the candy on a baking sheet and bake at 180 °C until the gingerbreads smell nice.
Store, preferably in a paper box, in a cool place.

small and large gingerbread in the shape of characters — source: countryliving.com

If you want to bake gingerbread without honey, you can replace the honey with, for example, sweet dates. Get inspired by recipes for date Christmas cookies .

Author of the article Milan & Ondra

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