Spiced Spelt Cookies

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This look draws inspiration from the spiciness of gingerbread cookies and the tenderness of puerquito cookies communal successful Mexico. The full atom spelt flour adds nutrition and gives the cookies a brushed texture, complemented by a well-rounded premix of warming spices, including cinnamon, ginger and cayenne pepper, on with vanilla and cacao flavors.

The cookies tin beryllium chopped successful immoderate signifier and past decorated with icing arsenic desired. Baker Arturo Enciso enjoys offering these astatine his panadería successful December, wherever you'll find them successful the signifier of cactuses speckled with dots to lucifer snow.

The cookies tin beryllium kept successful an airtight instrumentality successful a chill spot for up to 2 weeks.

The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest overnight and for up to 1 week.

From cook Arturo Enciso of Gusto Bread successful Long Beach, Calif.

Ingredients

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Servings: 36-48 cookies, depending connected cutter size

For the cookies

2 2/3 cups (330 grams) all-purpose flour, positive much for dusting
2 1/2 cups (330 grams) full spelt flour
2 tablespoons positive 1 spoon crushed ginger
4 teaspoons earthy cacao pulverization (may substitute earthy unsweetened cocoa powder)
Scant 1 tablespoonful crushed cinnamon
3/4 spoon good oversea oregon array salt, positive much arsenic needed
3/4 spoon baking soda
1/2 spoon cayenne capsicum (may substitute paprika for little heat)
1/2 cupful (120 milliliters) molasses (do not usage blackstrap)
1 tablespoonful positive 1 spoon agave syrup oregon nectar
1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
20 tablespoons (2 1/2 sticks/283 grams) unsalted butter, softened
Generous 1 cupful (220 grams) cane sweetener (may substitute granulated sugar)
2 ample eggs, astatine country somesthesia and divided

For the icing

2 cups (250 grams) unsifted confectioners' sugar
2 ample ovum whites (see NOTE)

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 48)

Calories
143
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
22 g
Sodium
63 mg
Cholesterol
20 mg
Protein
2 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
12 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cook Arturo Enciso of Gusto Bread successful Long Beach, Calif.

Tested by Matt Brooks.

Published November 30, 2021

Updated March 17, 2026