Maple Spice Cookies
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These vegan maple spice cookies are just right: Lightly sweet, not greasy, and redolent with warm spices and maple undertones.
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups all purpose flour
  • 1½ cups whole wheat pastry flour
  • ¾ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • ½ teaspoon allspice
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ⅛ teaspoon clove
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 flax "egg": (1 Tablespoon ground flax seeds mixed with 3 Tablespoons warm water until it becomes gloopy)
  • 1 stick vegan butter (Earth Balance) or 8 Tablespoons coconut oil, slightly softened
  • ¼ cup packed brown sugar
  • ½ cup pure maple syrup (Grade B is best here)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
Instructions
  1. Combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, spices, and salt in a bowl and set aside.
  2. Make a flax "egg" but mixing 1 Tablespoon ground flax seeds with 3 Tablespoons warm water in a small bowl and set aside.
  3. Cream the vegan butter or coconut oil with the brown sugar in an electric mixer until lighter in color and texture. Add the gloopy flax "egg" and continue beating for another minute. Add maple syrup and vanilla and blend for another 30 seconds.
  4. Slowly stir in the dry ingredients until a consistent, pliable dough forms.
  5. Remove the ball of dough from the mixer, wrap in plastic wrap, and flatten into a disc shape. Place this wrapped disc into the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or up to overnight.
  6. When you are ready to bake the cookies, preheat oven to 375°. Sprinkle a little flour onto your surface and roll out the chilled dough to about ⅛ inch thick. Cut out your cookies using your favorite cookie cutter shape and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  7. Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes or until the edges brown slightly. If you like chewier cookies, take them out after 9 minutes and if you prefer crisper cookies bake for 14 or so minutes.
  8. Remove cookies from baking sheet and allow to cool on a wire rack.
Notes
-If you don't have a cookie cutter, pinch off small pieces of the chilled dough and roll them into balls between your hands. Place them onto the parchment-line baking sheet and flatten to about ⅛ inch thick with the bottom of a drinking glass.

-If you prefer a sweeter cookie, add 2 Tablespoons more brown sugar during the creaming process.

-If you don't have maple syrup, your best substitutes are date or grape molasses.
Recipe by Lands & Flavors at https://www.landsandflavors.com/maple-spice-cookies/