Stress-Free Vegan Holiday Gingerbread Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour (plus extra for rolling)
  
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/2 cup molasses
  
• 1/2 cup melted coconut oil
  
• 1/2 cup demerara sugar, coconut sugar, or evaporated cane juice
  
• 1/4 cup almond milk, soy milk, or rice milk
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
2. Sift dry ingredients together into a large mixing bowl.
3. Whisk together the oil, molasses, sugar, milk, and vanilla extract.
4. Mix wet ingredients into dry, using a whisk, an electric hand mixer, or your hands, until uniform. Flatten the dough into a disk and refrigerate, wrapped in saran, for 30 minutes (or overnight).
5. Dust a clean surface with flour. Roll the dough out till it's a scant 1/4 inch thick. Cut into desired shapes.
6. Bake cookies for 8 minutes, or until the edges are just browning. Let cool before serving.