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A stack of heart shaped gluten free sugar cookies drizzled with chocolate sitting on pretty pink paper surrounded by tiny heart shaped sprinkles.

✍🏻 Gluten Free Sugar Cookies

These gluten free sugar cookies are a MUST ADD to your repertoire. Get out your cookie cutters and plan for fun making cookies.
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Course: Cookies & Bars
Keyword: sugar cookies
Servings: 24
Calories: 146kcal
Author: Cinde Little

Ingredients

DRY INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup white rice flour (120g)
  • 1 cup tapioca starch (135g)
  • Β½ cup potato starch (80g)
  • 2 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • β…™ teaspoon salt

WET INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup butter, room temperature
  • β…” cup sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

ROLLING

  • sweet rice flour or tapioca starch

DECORATIONS

  • icing sugar, melted chocolate or candy sprinkles

Instructions

  • In a large bowl whisk together dry ingredients.
  • In an electric mixer beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 2-3 minutes.
  • Add egg yolk and vanilla, mix until combined.
  • On low speed gradually add the dry mixture just until combined. Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface and shape into a ball. Divide the dough in half onto 2 pieces of wax paper/parchment. Flatten each one into a disk. Cover with the waxed paper and refrigerate for 30 minutes or overnight.
  • Preheat oven to 350Β°F and prepare baking sheets.
  • Gently roll out dough to ΒΌ-inch thickness, sprinkling with flour only when needed.*
  • Cut shapes and transfer cookies to baking sheets. Refrigerate 10-15 minutes before baking.
  • Gather remaining pieces of dough from cut cookies, gather into dough ball and repeat as before. Refrigerate dough 10-15 minutes before rolling out again.
  • Bake cookies in preheated oven for 12-14 minutes or until just turning golden on the edges.
  • Allow to cool on the baking sheet for 2-5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
  • Decorate as desired. Store cookies in an airtight container.

Notes

Tips for working with gluten free dough:
  1. Chill the dough anytime it is too soft to work with.
  2. Minimize the need for extra sprinkling flour by using wax paper or parchment on both sides of the dough and roll it like that. This also makes it easy to flip. Gently peel back the paper and sprinkle with a bit of flour, only if needed, before cutting out shapes. If the dough is sticking to the paper chill it again.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
✍🏻 Gluten Free Sugar Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 146 Calories from Fat 72
% Daily Value*
Fat 8g12%
Saturated Fat 5g31%
Trans Fat 0.3g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.3g
Monounsaturated Fat 2g
Cholesterol 28mg9%
Sodium 86mg4%
Potassium 44mg1%
Carbohydrates 18g6%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 6g7%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin A 247IU5%
Vitamin C 0.1mg0%
Calcium 6mg1%
Iron 0.2mg1%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.