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Gluten Free Cookies
Grab all your everyday baking ingredients and your baking equipment and let’s get to work making some amazing new gluten free cookies.
Baking sheets, mixing bowls and mixers, measuring cups and spoons, and then pull up a few of the new favorite recipes you can find below and start a few new batches of fantastic treats.
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What kind of gluten-free flour is best for cookies?
My favorite flour for is my Nightshade Free Gluten Free Flour Blend. But there are several pre-made flour blends that work great too. My favorite store-bought blends are Bob’s Red Mill 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour, King Arthur Gluten-Free Measure for Measure Flour, and Cup4Cup.
When baking, you want an element of stickiness and elasticity in your cookie dough, and if you don’t use a gluten free flour with xanthan gum your dough will be difficult to work with and lack stickiness and elasticity.
Traditional wheat flour contains gluten which acts as a binding agent in your baking recipes. Gluten free flour needs xanthan gum to act as that binding agent.
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Why do my cookies crumble?
Generally, this happens when your cookie dough or batter doesn’t have enough moisture or you over-measured your flour.
As mentioned above, xanthan gum is also an essential ingredient for binding. Without it, cookies will crumble to the touch and have a sandy consistency.
Wheat free cookies are also fairly delicate when they first come out of the oven. It’s important to let your cookies cool on the baking pan for 10 minutes when they come out of the oven. After 10 minutes, they’re firm enough to move to a cooling rack.
Try using my all purpose gluten free flour blend. It’s very versatile and easy to make. You can store it in an airtight container as well to use for future recipes!
Can you decorate cookies?
Heck yes, you can decorate your cookies. Just because they’re gluten free doesn’t change if you can or should decorate them. You can even decorate your homemade gluten free cookies with some homemade frosting too. I like adding some chocolate cream cheese frosting and sometimes the strawberry frosting fits the cookie profile better. Plus, if you need some sweet buttercream frosting, I have you covered too.
But decorating cookies isn’t just limited to icing or frosting, don’t forget the gluten free sprinkles! They add a fun pop of color to any cookie recipe.
Tips for Baking Homemade Cookies
Each recipe will give you your own set of tips that will help with that specific recipe, but here are a few general baking tips while using gluten free ingredients.
- Try to measure your gluten free flour by weight instead of by volume using measuring cups. This is often the easiest thing to screw up in a recipe by over or under packing a measuring cup with four, so if you follow flour weights instead of measurements, you’ll have a better chance of following the recipe accurately.
- If you measure by volume, follow this method to avoid over-measuring.
- Use room temperature ingredients. Baking with room temperature butter for instance makes it a lot easier to mix into dry ingredients without ending up with a lumpy batter or dough.
- Don’t skip chilling the dough. If the recipe calls for chilling the dough, don’t skip it. There’s typically a reason you need to chill the dough before baking. So, take the extra time needed to chill the dough as necessary even if it takes more than 30 minutes.
- Chilling the dough helps develop the flavor and provides time for the gluten free flour to absorb the wet ingredients.
- Don’t be afraid to double a cookie dough batch to freeze some for later if they’re freezer friendly. You can thank me later when you just have to thaw the pre-made dough later.
- You can make these cookies dairy free by using Miyoko’s cultured vegan butter.
Helpful Baking Equipment
- Grab a cookie scoop to help make even-sized cookies. I like using a Large OXO Scoop.
- Line your baking sheets with parchment paper or baking mats to help clean up easier.
- Rubber spatulas help make scraping the ingredients down the mixing bowl easier.
- You can use either a stand mixer or an electric mixer and mixing bowl. Some recipes may specify if one is easier to use than others.
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The Best Ever Gluten Free Cookies
All the best gluten free cookies to make for every occasion. Birthdays, parties, celebrations, holidays, cookie and gift exchanges, these cookies know no limits!
Easy gluten free Brown Sugar Cookies are soft, chewy, and delicious. They’re rolled in sugar for a little crunch and sparkle. Simple to make with very few ingredients!
Easy gluten free chocolate toffee cookies made from Gluten Free Christmas Cookies in a Jar.
This easy, no-chill recipe for Gluten Free Frosted Sugar Cookies is a must-make. They’re great for holidays, birthdays, or any time you’re looking for a sweet treat.
Learn how to make gluten free gingerbread cookies with minimal ingredients and a simple gluten free flour swap. These easy gingerbread cookies are perfectly spiced and ready for the holidays!
Grinch Heart Macarons are the perfect Christmas cookie for gifting or to bring to a Christmas party. They’re naturally gluten free cookies too!
Bakery Style Gluten Free Triple Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are the ultimate Christmas cookie! They're easy to make, have a minimal chill time, and are loaded with chocolate, white chocolate, and peppermint!
This recipe for the Best Ever Bakery Style Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies is the only gluten free chocolate chip cookie recipe you’ll ever want or need.
These easy Gluten Free Nutmeg Log Cookies are a traditional Christmas cookie that will be a crowd pleaser. Give your tastebuds a break from the chocolate and give these a try!
Give a gift from the heart this year and bake up a batch of these Gluten Free Danish Butter Cookies. They're easy to make and so tasty!
These easy gluten free chocolate sugar cookies are a fun twist on the traditional version. They require no chill time, roll out easily without extra flour, and hold their shape exceptionally well.
What’s better than a gluten free peanut butter cookie? When you stuff it with peanut butter cups to make Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookie Cups! They’re super easy to make and will disappear quickly from the cookie jar!
These soft gluten free peanut butter cookies are a classic! They're easy to make, freeze well, and are incredibly delicious!
Sweet and crispy gluten free Cherry Pinwheel Cookies make a great Valentine’s Day treat. They’ve got a wonderful cherry flavor that is simply irresistible. Bonus – they’re much easier to make than you’d think!
These Gluten Free Mummy Cookies are a fun treat for Halloween. They're made with my easy sugar cookie recipe and decorated with a simple royal icing.
These simple, healthy, no-bake Gluten Free Chocolate Walnut Cookies make a great afternoon snack or dessert. They're super easy to make!
These gluten free conversation heart cookies are the perfect Valentine’s Day treat. There’s also an easy video tutorial so you can see just how easy it is to decorate them!
These chocolate peppermint sandwich cookies are full of chocolate and minty flavors. The crisp chocolate cookies are stuffed with a creamy peppermint filling and coated in crunchy candy cane pieces.
Gluten free Samoas Cookie Cups are the best way to enjoy homemade Samoas! They’re full of chocolate, coconut and caramel flavor and will satisfy that Girl Scout Cookie craving.
These Gluten Free Cake Batter Cookies are soft, chewy and filled with white chocolate chips and sprinkles. They’re the cookie counterpart to the cake version!
These Double Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies are a great twist to the more traditional raspberry thumbprint cookies. They’re great for cookie swaps, homemade gifts or any time you’re feeling like chocolate.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Sticks are just like chocolate chip cookies only they’re shaped into sticks. They’re perfect for dipping, dunking, packing in a lunch and for snacking. Chocolate Chip Cookie Sticks are such a fun twist on the traditional chocolate chip cookie!
Chocolate shortbread dipped in dark chocolate and sprinkled with toasted hazelnuts. These chocolate hazelnut shortbread cookies have a deep, rich chocolate flavor that just melts in your mouth.
Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies are a classic made gluten free! This recipe makes a bakery-style cookie that’s soft in the middle and crisp along the edges.
These classic Gluten Free Peanut Butter Blossoms are soft peanut butter gluten free cookies topped with a Hershey’s kiss. Peanut butter and chocolate, so deliciously perfect.
Bakery Style Gluten Free Double Chocolate Chip Cookies are easy to make at home. They’re rich in chocolate flavor with chunks of chocolate in every bite.
Simple Gluten Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies made with hearty oats and loaded with chocolate chips. These old fashioned cookies are a family favorite.
Gluten-Free Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies are your basic cookie recipe made with sourdough starter discard. They’re thick, soft cookies that just melt in your mouth!
Gluten Free Candy Corn Pinwheel Cookies are festive Halloween cookies that taste like your favorite holiday slice and bake sugar cookies.
Simple Flourless Chocolate Cookies are naturally gluten free cookies that satisfy cravings for chocolate and chocolate chip cookies! They’re so easy to make with just 6 ingredients and with no special baking equipment required!
Festive Candy Cane Cookies are the perfect treat to add to your gluten free Christmas cookie platter! Lightly flavored with peppermint and a slight crunch pairs perfectly with a warm mug of hot cocoa.
Chocolate Meringue Cookies are super simple to make, have only a few ingredients, and are naturally gluten free cookies. Because they’re made of mostly egg whites, they’re also low in fat!
This Heart Meringue Cookie Recipe is for basic egg white cookies shaped and decorated for Valentine’s Day. Learn how to make meringue cookies with very few ingredients and not much work!
Valentine’s Chocolate Covered Oreos are a simple and sweet treat to make for your special Valentine. Use gluten free Oreos or other chocolate gluten free cookies.
These chewy Gluten Free Oatmeal Raisinet Cookies are a fun twist on regular oatmeal cookies. You get the best of both worlds with chocolate and raisins. Plus, you’d never know they were gluten free!
A classic shortbread recipe gets an easy gluten free makeover! These shortbread cookies are simple to make and are crisp and buttery, just as they should be!
Andes Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies are a double chocolate bakery-style gluten free cookie recipe flavored with chocolate and Andes Mint Candies.
These Gluten Free Shortbread Cookies with sprinkles are perfect bites of crunchy, basic, simple, buttery cookies bursting with color.
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Wow, so many great gluten free cookie recipes, pinned for later use. Thanks for sharing all these recipes.
Thanks, Linda!