Maple Syrup season just finished up here in Pennsylvania! I LOVE syrup season!! I help my friends at the Shumake Sugar Shack collect, boil, and do the maple tour. It’s a lot of fun with friends and watching people wipe out in the mud. Haha
Anyways, during the tour I helped my buddy Dom make these delicious Maple spice cookies. The only problem was they are LOADED with sugar! So I decided the remake them with the good stuff.
By good, I don’t just mean healthy, benefiting ingredients. I mean REAL maple syrup. Not this fake junk you get from the store that’s full of unhealthy ingredients!
Would ya look at those beauties!
Just wait for this next texture picture I’m gonna show you cuz, WOW!
Just one more picture, Promise! I’m just So Happy with how these turned out! It was a BIG with my recipe testers. Which included my friends at the Shumake Sugar Shack!
You should definitely make them…like right now!
Healthy Maple Spice Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 cup Real Maple Syrup
- 2 eggs
- 4-1/4 cup Spelt flour
- 2-1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3 tbsp baking powder
- 2 tsp ginger
- 1-1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- maple sugar (for sprinkling)
Instructions
- Preaheat oven to 350. Put parchment paper on 2 cookie sheets.
- Cream the butter and maple syrup until well mixed.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients.
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture slowly, mixing well after you add each time. The dough should be slightly sticky, but not too much.
- Roll the dough into little 1-1/2 inch balls and dip into the maple sugar if using.
- Place the balls on the cookie sheet 2 inches apart as they do spread out some.
- Bake for 11 minutes. DO NOT overbake! Spelt flour is a drier flour so you don't want to overbake. You want these cookies to be nice and moist!! I even baked some for 10 minutes and they turned out good too.
- Transfer to a cooling rack, or just pop a nice warm one in your mouth and enjoy!!
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