I’m so excited to partner with SweetLeaf® to bring you today’s recipe video! I’m absolutely obsessed with their Liquid Stevia Vanilla Crème Sweet Drops™. They’re so easy to use and perfect for baking!
One year on the last day of elementary school before our winter break, Mom stopped by the grocery store two blocks away from campus after picking up my brother and me. She led us through the doors and over to the bakery, where she told us to pick out a gingerbread cookie.
Our eyes widened. She had motioned to the oversized ones, nearly twice as big as our hands, wrapped in cellophane and intricately decorated with red and green icing overalls along with a big white icing smile. We almost never got to eat cookies that pretty—or that big!
After carefully inspecting each huge gingerbread man, my brother and I selected our favorites, and Mom walked us to the checkout lines to pay. She let us start nibbling on the 10-minute car ride home, but by the time we eased into the driveway, both of our cookies had almost disappeared… So Mom laughed and told us to run around in the backyard—probably so she wouldn’t have to deal with our sugar high!
Last week, when the weather grew cooler and I started craving gingerbread, I skipped the big grocery store treats and made these Ultimate Healthy Gingerbread Cookies at home instead! They’re just as soft and tender as those bakery ones from my childhood, and they’re full of the same irresistible cozy spice flavors.
However… These are easy to make and just 52 calories! Even better, they won’t give you a sugar high (or crash!) like a bakery’s cookies, thanks to one of my favorite ingredients: SweetLeaf® Liquid Stevia Vanilla Crème Sweet Drops™! Stevia is a plant-based, no-calorie sweetener, and I absolutely love SweetLeaf’s warm vanilla flavor. (You’ll use it in all of these recipes of mine, too!)
Watch my short video below to learn how to make these gingerbread cookies; then grab the recipe directly beneath the video!
Note: This was sponsored by SweetLeaf®. As always, all thoughts, text, photos, videos, and recipes are my own.
Gingerbread cookies! My favorites! My sis is using stevia for sweets!
Great minds must think alike Lee! 😉 I’d love to hear what you and your sister think if you try these cookies!
I don’t have time for videos during the holidays, just the recipe please, especially the gingerbread and any other
christmas cut out cookie recipes. Thanks
Gramma linda
Hi Linda! The recipe is available directly underneath the video. (The video is less than 1 minute — not long at all!) You can find all of my holiday recipes here. 🙂 I can’t wait to hear what recipes you try!
I am searching for a sugar free Christmas cookie to take to the Nursing Home. I hope this recipe will do the trick.
I will try to come back and let you know how they turn out .
I’m honored that you’d consider making my recipe to share at the nursing home Dorothy! I can’t wait to hear what you think of these gingerbread cookies! 🙂
Can you make these using granulated stevia rather than the drops? What would the amount be? Thanks!
I really appreciate your interest in my recipe Lilly! It depends on the exact brand and product you’re trying to substitute. Would you be able to share that with me? 🙂
Sure this is the brand, I purchased it on amazon. Thanks!!
Natural Mate Stevia All Purpose Natural Sweetener, 1 Pound https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F3CWIO6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_VGGlAb668FN4G
My pleasure, Lilly! Unfortunately, I don’t think that product will work. You’d need 4½ tablespoons to replace the vanilla stevia, and that would just add too much volume to the cookie dough. (It’d make the cookie dough too wet/runny to roll out, even after chilling!) The next time you’re shopping on Amazon, I definitely recommend picking up the vanilla stevia here! It’s actually cheaper per serving compared to your stevia product because it’s so concentrated. And I promise your gingerbread cookies will work with it! 😉