15 Gluten-Free Christmas Cookie Recipes Your Family Will Fight Over
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These GF Christmas cookies look stunning, taste incredible, and nobody will know they're gluten-free. Sugar cookies, gingerbread, thumbprints, and more.
These GF Christmas cookies look stunning, taste incredible, and nobody will know they're gluten-free. Sugar cookies, gingerbread, thumbprints, and more.
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βKey Takeaways
Holiday Baking Without the Gluten Stress
The holidays should be about joy, not anxiety. These 15 cookie recipes use π Bob's Red Mill GF 1-to-1 Flour β the easiest GF flour that works cup-for-cup in any recipe.
Essential Holiday Baking Kit
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1. π Classic Sugar Cookies (Cut-Out)
The queen of Christmas cookies.
Cream butter + sugar. Add eggs + extracts. Mix in flour. Chill 1 hour. Roll out, cut shapes, bake at 350Β°F for 9-11 min.
Royal icing: 2 cups powdered sugar + 3 tbsp milk + 1/2 tsp vanilla. Tint with food coloring.
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2. π« Gingerbread Cookies
Mix, chill 2 hours, roll out, cut shapes. 350Β°F, 10-12 min. Decorate with royal icing.
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3. π« Double Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Mix, chill 1 hour. Roll into balls β roll in powdered sugar β bake 350Β°F, 10-12 min. Cookies crack beautifully like snow.
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4. π₯ Peanut Butter Blossoms
3-ingredient cookie (no flour needed). Scoop, bake 350Β°F 10 min. Press a Kiss into center immediately after baking.
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5. πͺ Snickerdoodles
Roll in cinnamon sugar. 375Β°F, 8-10 min. Soft, puffy, cinnamon-y perfection.
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6. π« Thumbprint Jam Cookies
Shape balls, press thumb in center, fill with jam. 350Β°F, 12-14 min.
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7. π§ Scottish Shortbread
Mix, press into pan, prick with fork, score into rectangles. 325Β°F, 25-30 min. Rich, buttery, melts in your mouth.
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8β15 Quick Recipe Roundup:
8. Chocolate Chip (Classic) β Use your favorite recipe, swap flour 1:1
9. Macarons (almond flour) β Naturally GF! π almond flour + egg whites + sugar
10. Pecan Snowballs β Butter + pecans + π GF flour + powdered sugar
11. Lemon Bars β π GF flour shortbread crust + lemon curd
12. Peppermint Bark β No flour needed! Just chocolate + peppermint
13. Coconut Macaroons β Shredded coconut + condensed milk + vanilla. No flour!
14. Oatmeal Raisin β π GF oats + π GF flour + raisins + cinnamon
15. No-Bake Chocolate Oat Balls β π GF oats + peanut butter + honey + π cocoa + π chocolate chips
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Rachel Lopez
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Rachel is a classically trained pastry chef who transitioned to gluten-free baking after her daughter was diagnosed with celiac disease. She develops and tests every recipe on Check Gluten, ensuring they work perfectly with GF ingredients.
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