Quick and Easy Gluten Free Sugar Cookies

Gluten free sugar cookies are a delicious treat any time of the year. You will love this simple gluten free sugar cookie recipe. It makes soft sugar cookies, perfect for holiday gifts, and it’s the best gluten free sugar cookie recipe for Christmas cookie exchanges, too!

If you love buttery, melt in your mouth Gluten Free Sugar Cookies, I am happy to say this new gluten free sugar cookie recipe makes a delicious treat!

Sugar cookies are one of those cookies that vary widely. Some are crispy, some are rolled and cut out and bake to finish crunchy, others are slightly crispy on the edges and soft and buttery on the inside. These are the slightly crispy around the edges type of sugar cookie.

Holiday Cookie Recipes

I am still on my holiday cookie baking binge! I love making cookies, especially if I can freeze them and enjoy them over the week. These Gluten Free Ginger Cookies also freeze really well!

This simple gluten free sugar cookie recipe is sort of a “blooper recipe.” I started out thinking I was making one type of cookie, and I ended up with something totally different. Does that ever happen to you?

These cookies were an attempt to convert a Norwegian Butter Cookie recipe to gluten free. It was a total flop! The butter cookies I was trying to make were not supposed to spread. Look at my cookies and you can see this wasn’t the case at all!

Cookies don’t get much flatter than this! Something about the gluten free butter cookie dough isn’t quite right. I plan to keep trying to get this butter cookie recipe right, but until then, I will keep nibbling on these delicious, soft gluten free sugar cookies!

How to Make Gluten Free Sugar Cookies

The gluten free sugar cookie recipe makes cookies good enough for gift giving, a cookie exchange, or any occasion! They make delicious Gluten Free Christmas Sugar Cookies!

Add some red or green sprinkles to the sugar cookies to make them festive! I honestly believe this is the best gluten free sugar cookie recipe I’ve made.

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Okay, I know we talked about the crispy edges…and the rich buttery taste. Let’s talk about how to make this simple gluten free sugar cookie recipe.

Pulse the flour mixture and butter in a food processor until it looks “grainy” and crumbly.

Add the wet ingredients and mix well. Your dough should form a stiff ball. So far everything was going according to plan! Wrap the gluten free sugar cookie dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours.

Use a cookie scoop to drop balls of cold dough onto a parchment lined cookie baking sheet. Press down in the middle of each sugar cookie and add thick baker’s sugar to each middle. The recipe is still on track at this point.

Bake the cookies at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. This is where my trouble happened. My cookies didn’t stay shaped, they spread like crazy!

Uh oh! Something didn’t work out…I will need to try the Austrian Butter Cookie recipe again sometime soon so I can perfect it for you. Until then, enjoy these delicious gluten free sugar cookies :-).

It is funny that I ended up with the best gluten free sugar cookie recipe by accident!

Things You Need To Make the Best Gluten Free Sugar Cookie Recipe:

1. A great cookie sheet to bake these cookies on.
2. My favorite gluten free flour blend.

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The Best Gluten Free Sugar Cookie recipe

Prep Time

1 hr

Cook Time

7 mins

Total Time

1 hr 7 mins

 

An easy gluten free sugar cookie that is crispy on the edges and chewy in the middle.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 12

Calories: 212 kcal

Ingredients

• 2 cups gluten free flour blend
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• dash of salt
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 10 tablespoons butter
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 tablespoons course baking sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

2. Add dry ingredients to a food processor. Add the butter and pulse until the mixture is crumbly.

3. Pour flour mixture into a bowl and add eggs, vanilla and water and mix well.

4. Wrap the dough ball in plastic and refrigerate for two hours.

5. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

6. Use a cookie scoop to drop balls of dough onto the cookie sheet.

7. Press down in the middle of each. Add a little of the course sugar to each center.

8. Bake for 12 minutes until done.

9. Remove from the oven and cool on a cooling rack.

Nutrition Facts

The Best Gluten Free Sugar Cookie recipe

Amount Per Serving (1 g)

Calories 212 Calories from Fat 90

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 10g 15%

Saturated Fat 6g 30%

Polyunsaturated Fat 1g

Monounsaturated Fat 4g

Cholesterol 52mg 17%

Sodium 94mg 4%

Potassium 43mg 1%

Total Carbohydrates 27g 9%

Dietary Fiber 2g 8%

Sugars 13g

Protein 3g 6%

Vitamin A 6.6%

Calcium 3.5%

Iron 4.9%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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