Rejoice!! Gluten Free Sugar Cookie Recipe!

Gaudete Sunday! Soon He will come! Prepare the way!

I've been promising my 3 year old all week that we'd make cookies this Sunday and make them we did!!

I will post photos once we decorate them but for now here's a recipe. I've been working and working on this recipe to make it taste just right and I think I've finally perfected it. My hubby is pretty picky about tasting things that are allergen free and generally if it isn't chock full of butter and all the things my daughter is allergic to...he won't touch them.

BUT VICTORY TODAY! He tasted one and said that it was great!!! GREAT! That's amazing!

So here's the long awaited recipe!

These are free of gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts, coconut, rye, barley, and oats.

Allergen-Free Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:
1/2 cup shortening
4 tbsp honey
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp vanilla
1 tsp Wilton butter flavor
1 1/2 cups Bobs Redmill Gluten Free flour or another flour blend of choice
1 1/2 cups White Rice Flour
1 tsp xanthum gum
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
4-6 tbsp water (as needed)

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Combine shortening, honey, sugar, vanilla, butter flavoring. Mix dry ingredients in another bowl then add to sugar mixture. Add water a tablespoon at a time until the mixture is pulling from the sides and forming a dough. You may refrigerate it before rolling OR roll immediately between two sheets of wax paper (I prefer this method even after refrigerating). Roll to 1/4 inch thick (the thicker the dough the softer the cookie after baking...thinner ones will be crispier). Cut out cookies with cutters and place on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until they begin to turn slightly brown at the edges.

For icing:

Use marshmallow fondant cut with the same cutter used for the cookie(attach with cornsyrup or a small amount of icing) OR Wilton's recipe for icing but substitute all shortening, butter flavoring and soymilk/ricemilk. I add a tbsp of corn syrup to the all shortening icing to make it easier to spread/pipe when decorating.

Happy Gaudete Sunday and happy baking!!