Healthy Homemade Gingerbread Christmas Cookies

Melanie shares "Happy holidays can be healthy holidays, thanks to these pillowy protein gingerbread cookies. Soft, full of goodness, and 100% picky eater approved! I've partnered up with Healthy Height to bring you a totally delicious gingerbread cookie recipe that will keep the holidays both happy and health! Healthy Height's vanilla shake mix subtly adds protein, vitamins, minerals, and healthy fats to their day."

Ingredients:

2-1/4 cups spelt flour

1/4 cup Healthy Height vanilla shake mix

1-1/2 tsp ground ginger

2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp ground cloves

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1/2 tsp salt

1/3 cup coconut sugar

1/3 cup coconut oil

1/3 cup molasses

1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce

2 tbsp unsweetened nut milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325F
In one bowl, combine all dry ingredients
In a mixer, combine all wet ingredients (coconut oil, molasses, applesauce, nut milk) and beat until smooth
Add dry ingredients to the mixer and combine
Roll out dough on floury surface. The dough may be sticky; just add more flour if needed. You want dough about 1/2 an inch thick.
Cut dough into desired shapes and place shaped dough on parchment paper on baking sheet.
Place shaped dough in freezer for 15 minutes to firm up
Transfer baking sheet to oven, and bake cookies for 10-12 minutes
Let cookies cool a bit before eating or decorating, as they will firm up as they cool down.
Enjoy!

Nutrition to Help Kids Grow - and Sleep!

Every year our team of Pediatricians at Schneider Children's Medical Center have 20,000 visits from children with issues relating to growth. Our doctors wanted to find a non-invasive way to help children grow and the nutrition in our shake mix is the result of their efforts. The nutrition in our shake mix was shown in a clinical study to promote growth in 6 months, as well as improve sleep patterns in kids who take at least 1 serving per day.