7
Feb

Gluten Free Sugar Cookies (Paleo and SCD)

These gluten free sugar cookies are easy to make and great to use for the holidays to decorate. Check out my frosting recipe in Celebrations!

My birthday falls just 3 days apart from Valentine's Day, so I've told Ryan over the last 11 years to not stress about V-day and just focus on my birthday. It's also so close to Christmastime so I've always wanted to give him a break. However, as these last two years have shifted to being about us to 100% about our rambunctious little Asher, I think it's time we start celebrating again and taking a day to commemorate our marriage and friendship. I am also just realizing that while I may have been trying to save him the headache, he was actually missing out on a day of feeling special as well! So many people despise Valentine's Day because of the commercial aspect, but it is kind of fun to be all lovey dovey once a year.

I have been wanting to create gluten free sugar cookies for a long time now and felt like this Valentine's Day was the perfect occasion. These buttery cookies are chewy and the frosting, while a total stoke of luck on my first try, is killer and pipes better than any dairy/sugar free frosting I've ever tried. Use this recipe all year round for your various holiday celebrations!

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Gluten Free Sugar Cookies (Paleo and SCD)



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SERVES: 1 dozen medium sized cookies

Cuisine: American

Category: Dessert

PREP TIME: 40 mins

COOK TIME: 8 mins TOTAL TIME: 48 mins

Ingredients:

Frosting

  • 6 tablespoons coconut butter (also called coconut cream concentrate)
  • ¼ cup raw cacao butter, chopped
  • ¼ cup honey
  • ¼ cup cold coconut milk
    optional: food coloring (this brand is all natural or use 1 tablespoon finely ground freeze dried strawberries or raspberries – you may need to add extra liquid to achieve desired consistency if using the dried fruit)

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Combine the dough ingredients in a food processor and process until a smooth ball of dough forms, about 30 seconds. Alternatively, mix all of the ingredients in a stand mixer or by hand. The food processed dough will be ultra smooth and the most like a conventional sugar cookie.
  3. Flatten the ball of dough into a ½” thick disk and wrap in plastic wrap. Chill for 20 minutes.
  4. Roll the dough out between two sheets of parchment paper, keeping it to a ¼” thickness. Remove the top sheet and sprinkle the top of the dough with 1 teaspoon coconut flour, rubbing it in slightly with your fingers. Dip a cookie cutter in a little flour then cut your shapes, peeling away excess dough as you work. Gather the excess dough into a ball and re-roll it. If it starts to dry out or crack as you work with it the second or third time, lightly wet your hands before kneading the scraps to add a little moisture back into the dough.
  5. Bake the cookies on a tray lined with parchment paper for 8-10 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.

Frosting

  1. Warm the cacao butter and coconut butter over low heat until melted, but not boiling. Pour it into a bowl and whisk in the cold coconut milk and honey. Refrigerate for 20 minutes to set.
  2. Scrape the frosting into a blender or food processor and pulse a few times until the frosting is smooth and fluffy. Add any food coloring if desired or leave white.
  3. Pipe designs or spread frosting onto cooled cookies.
    *For the glossy look that I achieved with the dark pink heart, I first piped a thin border around the outside of the cookie and placed it in the fridge to harden for 10 minutes. Then I melted a little bit of the frosting until it was liquid and poured a little inside the border. I tilted the cookie around until the frosting “flooded” the space and stopped at the border. The others are just spread with an offset spatula then piped with designs.


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