For aspiring bakers who want to make great tasting gluten free cookies, this recipe is tested and accompanied by tips on baking good gluten free cookies.
Gluten Free Almond Cookies
Ingredients:
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- ½ cup butter
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup white rice flour
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup almond flour (depending on desired flavour)
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt (optional)
- 1 tsp guar gum
Optional Ingredients May Include:
- ½ to 1/3 cup semi-sweet or white chocolate chips
- ½ to 1/3 cup macadamia nuts
- pinch of ginger
- pinch of nutmeg
- ½ tsp of cinnamon
Directions:
Preheat oven at 350 . In a mixing bowl, combine the butter and both sugars and stir until well mixed. It works best if the butter has had time to soften at room temperature. Add the egg and vanilla and mix well. In a separate bowl, combine the white rice flour, the almond flour, the baking soda, the salt and the guar gum. Add the dry ingredients to the sugar, butter, egg and vanilla and mix thoroughly. Mix in baker’s choice of optional ingredients. Make balls of dough and place them on the cookies tray. Bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes.
Tips On Preparing and Baking These Cookies:
- Guar gum is an essential ingredient for the proper consistency of the cookie dough, and it can be found at specialty stores or health food stores.
- For best results, make sure measurements are accurate.
- Substituting all purpose gluten free flour for white rice flour may make the dough stickier and more difficult to make into balls and place on the tray. The cookies will bake properly, but are likely to expand more than usual and bake in less time.
- An electric mixer is likely to gather the dough into a ball that can be difficult to separate from the beaters. Mixing by hand with a baking spatula works just as well, although it takes a bit of elbow grease.
- When adding the optional ingredients, measurements may be modified to suit the baker’s choice. The chocolate chips and the nuts go well together, as do the spices. Combining the spices with the chocolate and nuts may not go as well together, but it is up to the baker. Nutmeg and ginger are more potent flavours than cinnamon. Add more cinnamon than nutmeg and ginger and the flavour will be balanced.
- Try tasting the dough before putting the cookies in the oven.
- These cookies can expand a fair amount and it may work best to place only twelve cookies on the tray at once and try to place the tray higher in the oven.
- Remember that every oven is different and it is advisable to check the cookies before ten minutes. Poke them with a toothpick. If it comes out fairly clean, the cookies are done.
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