Best Whole Wheat Gingerbread Recipes

WHOLE WHEAT GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat molasses, honey, oil and eggs until well-mixed. Combine dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk to the egg mixture. Pour batter into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve warm or at room temperature with chilled whipped cream.

GINGERBREAD PANCAKES (HEALTHY, WHOLE WHEAT, AND LOW-FAT)

Steps:

• Mix together dry ingredients. (You can do this the night before).
• In a separate bowl, mix the wet ingredients and brown sugar then add to the dry, mixing until just moist, folding in pecans and cranberries.
• If using cranberries, prepare as follows: Thaw if frozen. Cut in halves and place in bowl with sprinkle of white sugar. Toss in sugar then fold into pancake batter with pecans. (This cuts the tartness).
• Let stand for five minutes **Don't skip this step.
• Heat GREASED griddle to 350 while the pancake batter is standing.
• Pour pancake batter onto griddle, and lightly spread outwards with a spatchula. Due to the molasses, this batter can thicken quite a bit.
• Flip when bubbles form on top of pancake and edges are dry. Enjoy with maple syrup, caramel sauce, pear sauce, or applesauce.

WHOLE WHEAT GINGERBREAD PANCAKES

Steps:

• Whisk first 6 ingredients in a large bowl to blend.
• Whisk apple juice concentrate, water, butter and eggs in a medium bowl to blend.
• Add to dry ingredients, whick batter just until blended.
• Heat heaby griddle or skillet over medium-high heat; brush with some oil or butter.
• Pour batter by 1/3 cupfuls onto griddle, spacing 2 inches apart.
• Cook until pancakes are golden brown, about 3 minutes per side.
• Transfer to plate and keep warm in low oven while making the rest of the pancakes.
• Serve with butter, maple syrup or apple butter.

WHOLE WHEAT GINGERBREAD CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter, gradually add brown sugar and beat until fluffy.
• Add egg and beat well.
• Mix in molasses.
• Mix dry ingredients together, add gradually to mixture.
• Add boiling water and stir until batter is smooth, mixture will be thin.
• Pour into greased and floured 8" square baking pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes, until edges are starting to pull away from pan and toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.

WHOLE WHEAT PUMPKIN GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
• In a large mixing, combine sugar, oil and eggs; beat until smooth. Add water and beat until well blended. Stir in pumpkin, ginger, allspice cinnamon, and clove.
• In medium bowl, combine flour, soda, salt, and baking powder. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and blend just until all ingredients are mixed. Divide batter between prepared pans.
• Bake in preheated oven until toothpick comes out clean, about 1 hour.

WHOLE WHEAT GINGERBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in molasses, egg, vanilla, and salt until combined.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together dry ingredients; add to wet ingredients and mix until well blended and dough forms. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before handling. If chilled overnight, allow the dough to warm up slightly or it may crack when it is rolled out.
• Preheat oven to 350F (175C.) Line two baking trays with parchment paper, set aside. Divide dough into 4 pieces; roll out one at a time keeping the remaining dough refrigerated.
• Roll dough to ¼ inch (½ cm) thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut into desired shapes using floured cookie cutters. Carefully transfer to prepared baking trays.
• . Bake for 7-9 minutes, rotating trays top to bottom halfway through, or until cookies are set. Cool 1-2 minutes on the tray then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating.
• Tips: Make a simple Royal Icing to decorate. It will harden overnight, making the cookies stackable for storage. Lightly whisk together 1 egg white and ¼ tsp (1 mL) lemon juice. Gradually beat in 1 ½ - 2 ½ cups (375-625 mL) of icing sugar to desired consistency. Tint using food colouring, then pipe onto cookies using a zipper storage bag with the corner snipped off. Allow the icing to dry overnight before storing in an airtight container. More cookie recipes are available at www.walmart.ca/recipecentre.

WHOLE WHEAT GINGERBREAD COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in molasses, egg, vanilla, and salt until combined.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together dry ingredients; add to wet ingredients and mix until well blended and dough forms. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before handling. If chilled overnight, allow the dough to warm up slightly or it may crack when it is rolled out.
• Preheat oven to 350F (175C.) Line two baking trays with parchment paper, set aside. Divide dough into 4 pieces; roll out one at a time keeping the remaining dough refrigerated.
• Roll dough to ¼ inch (½ cm) thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut into desired shapes using floured cookie cutters. Carefully transfer to prepared baking trays.
• Bake for 7-9 minutes, rotating trays top to bottom halfway through, or until cookies are set. Cool 1-2 minutes on the tray then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating.
• Tips: Make a simple Royal Icing to decorate. It will harden overnight, making the cookies stackable for storage. Lightly whisk together 1 egg white and ¼ tsp (1 mL) lemon juice. Gradually beat in 1 ½ - 2 ½ cups (375-625 mL) of icing sugar to desired consistency. Tint using food colouring, then pipe onto cookies using a zipper storage bag with the corner snipped off. Allow the icing to dry overnight before storing in an airtight container.
• More cookie recipes are available at www.walmart.ca/recipecentre.

WHOLE WHEAT GINGERBREAD

Steps:

• This recipe came from a cookbook published in 1923. I made alterations to the sugar and fat content, and have been very pleased with the results. If you want to do the original version, then replace the Splenda with white sugar, and the Apple Butter with regular butter.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan, or spray with Baker's Joy cake release.
• Mix sorghum with Splenda and apple butter. Sift or stir together the flours, soda, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, and salt. Add dry ingredients to sorghum mixture and blend well. Add boiling water until well blended. Then stir in the well-beaten eggs quickly.
• Pour into prepared pan. This is a very thin batter, but do not add more flour.
• Bake until top springs back when softly touched, about 20-25 minutes. Let cool before removing from pan. Cut into 15 or 20 squares, depending on desired size. Good when dusted with powdered sugar.
• This can also be made into layer cake with filling between layers and on top. A good filling for this is Lemon Butter (see recipe in my box). Or you can thin cream cheese with a little sorghum and use that. Also good topped with a large dollop of whipped cream.