Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies Recipe

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These cake-like cookies will be a welcome snack with a cold glass of milk. Feel free to use this recipe as a base and mix in dried cranberries or cherries, nuts or other extracts. Taste of Home Test Kitchen - Greendale, Wisconsin

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Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies Recipe
  • Prep: 25 min. Bake: 10 min./batch
  • Yield: 36 Servings
25 10 35

Ingredients

  • 2/3 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 4 teaspoons grated lemon peel
  • 1 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1-1/3 cups potato starch
  • 1-1/3 cups garbanzo and fava flour
  • 1 cup tapioca flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/3 cup coarse sugar

Directions

  • In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, applesauce, lemon peel and extract. Combine the potato starch, garbanzo and fava flour, tapioca flour, salt, xanthan gum and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
  • Shape into 1-1/2-in. balls and roll in coarse sugar. Place 2 in. apart on baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 7-9 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from pans to wire racks. Yield: 3 dozen.

    Editor’s Note: Read all ingredient labels for possible gluten content prior to use. Ingredient formulas can change, and production facilities vary among brands. If you’re concerned that your brand may contain gluten, contact the company. This recipe was tested with Bob’s Red Mill garbanzo and fava flour.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 110 calories, 4 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 21 mg cholesterol, 116 mg sodium, 18 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 starch, 1/2 fat.

Originally published as Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies in Healthy Cooking December/January 2009, p11

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Reviewed on Oct. 07, 2010 by creegercrewof7

I really like the texture on these but they are lacking flavor- adding more vanilla, almond, or lemon extract can help- would be great to make as raisin cookies!


Reviewed on Feb. 23, 2010 by joedebfry

The cookies are light and tender but they have an after-taste.


Reviewed on Dec. 21, 2009 by ChristinaL30

Made these with my mom for my 2 ASD angels. (One loved them, one didn't; LOL.) Ours may have turned out a little different; I was out of tapioca flour & couldn't find it @ Kroger, but had coconut flour. We also used BRM's GF All Purpose Baking Flour (gar-fava + tapioca + potato + white sorghum flours) instead of straight garfava flour. Anyway, most of us (ie--non-GFCF ppl) agreed these are GREAT! I will definitely make these again, maybe some with spices, maybe some with choc chips (Enjoy Life Foods for GFCF). Thank you TOH for another home run recipe!! :)


Reviewed on Aug. 26, 2009 by cozykitchen

The garbanzo and fava flour used to test the recipe is a single flour made from both garbanzo beans and fava beans - so it would be 1-1/3 cups total flour used in the recipe. We used Bob's Red Mill brand.


Reviewed on Aug. 18, 2009 by trrishk@yahoo.com

Is that 1-1/3 cups EACH of garbanzo and fava flours? Or just 1-1/3 C. combined?


Reviewed on Nov. 15, 2008 by KJ1

Oh my!!! I can't wait to try these!! Imagine - a good sugar cookie!

 
 
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