Soft Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies
A Girl Defloured's recipe for gluten-free sugar cookies is just perfect: soft, sweet, and the perfect present for your special someone...and yes, that includes you, too.
Servings: 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 stick | ½ cup softened butter (I almost always use salted butter when I bake…gasp!)
- ½ cup granulated sugar, such as Zulka Morena Pure Cane Sugar (they sent me some to try and it’s awesome!)
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg, room temp
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose gluten-free flour blend (mine is great, Trader Joe’s Brand is also fine)
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum (omit if your flour blend already contains it)
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- gluten-free sprinkles, for decoration
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Add egg and extracts and beat until evenly combined.
- In another small bowl, whisk together the flour, xanthan, baking powder and salt. Add to the butter/sugar mixture and beat until it comes together in large clumps.
- Turn dough out onto a square of parchment and knead together (using your hands) until a nice smooth ball of dough froms. It should only take a couple of turns. Cover dough with another sheet of parchment and roll out until it’s about ¼ inch thick.