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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Special Diets / Paleo Recipes / Grain Free Ginger Snaps Recipe

Grain Free Ginger Snaps Recipe

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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My kids love ginger snaps, and the fact that our favorite recipe is made with almond flour makes it all the better as I take pains to provide low carb snacks whenever possible.

Most child-friendly snacks from the store, even if organic, rely heavily on refined, grain-based carbs. Even when gluten-free, these types of snacks can contribute to weight issues and other health woes in the long run when consumed frequently.

A big bonus is that these ginger snaps were so fast to prepare and bake!

I keep a bag of homemade almond flour from sprouted or soaked nuts in the freezer most of the time to make grain-free pizza crusts, so special prep of the almonds before making these cookies was not necessary.

It is probably the reason why I overlooked this cookie recipe in Nourishing Traditions Cookbook for so many years as well as I have only started maintaining almond flour on hand in the past year or so.  I think these cookies would be amazing with hazelnut flour too, by the way.

These healthy, homemade ginger snaps turned out crisp and delicious. Even my picky eater loved them!

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Grain Free Ginger Snaps Recipe
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Ginger Snaps Recipe

Healthy ginger snaps recipe made with almond flour that take only minutes to make and are delightfully crispy to eat. GAPS, AIP, and SCD legal options!

Keyword gluten free, grain free, low carb
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 2 dozen
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cups almonds soaked or sprouted, preferably organic
  • 1/2 cup butter softened, preferably grassfed
  • 1 cup arrowroot flour
  • 1 egg preferably pastured
  • 1/2 cup sucanat
  • 1 Tbl filtered water
  • 1.5 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp ground cloves
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt

Instructions

  1. Pulse crispy or sprouted almonds in a food processor until they are ground into almond flour.  It is not necessary for the almond flour to be extremely finely ground as a more coarse texture turns out fine when mixed with the arrowroot powder.

  2. Mix in remaining ingredients. Form into balls the size of a ping pong ball and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

  3. Bake at 300F for 20 minutes, removing pan from the oven after 5 minutes to press each ball lightly with a fork before baking the remaining amount of time.

  4. Cool and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

  5. * Note that I added an egg to this ginger snaps recipe to make sure the cookies held together well. There are no eggs in the Nourishing Traditions recipe which turned out too crumbly.

Recipe Notes

Coconut sugar may be substituted for sucanat. Also, if on the GAPS diet, date syrup may be substituted.

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Category: Cookie Recipes, Paleo Recipes
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (47)

  1. Amy Mihaly

    Nov 25, 2021 at 11:50 am

    These look delicious! They aren’t GAPS legal because of the arrowroot powder also. But I’m going to try an extra egg maybe!

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  2. Melissa

    Nov 21, 2019 at 10:37 am

    What other flours can be used besides arrowroot flour? I have bad reactions to arrowroot.

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Nov 21, 2019 at 10:59 am

      You can try one of these. I haven’t tried others, so if you make a substitution, let us know how it turns out!
      https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/how-to-mix-and-use-gluten-free-flour/

  3. bonnie

    Jan 4, 2017 at 10:29 pm

    sarah….would blanched almond flour be a no-no? if not, how much would i use? i don’t have anyway to dry the almonds lower than 150 degrees.

    Reply
    • Sarah

      Jan 5, 2017 at 7:54 am

      You can use blanched almond flour, but it will not be as nutritious or digestible as almond flour that was soaked/dehydrated first.

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