Just Sweet Enough: Desserts Made Without Refined Sugar

The Giftable Cookie

Known for her vegetarian recipes, 101 Cookbooks blogger Heidi Swanson is adept at satisfying a sweet tooth too. Her recipe for ginger cookies calls for whole grain flour, not white; unsulphured molasses; and raw or turbinado sugar (which is less refined than the traditional kind). These treats also boast a generous portion of chocolate chunks.

Get the recipe: Ginger Cookies

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