Gluten-Free Cut-Out Sugar Cookies #Christmas #Cookies

These Gluten-Free Cut-Out Sugar Cookies at the moment are a go-to Christmas cookie recipe in our house!!  a few easy hints make the sugar cookie dough excellent clean to work with and the gluten-unfastened sugar cookies don’t unfold even as baking!

After a slightly failed attempt to re-create our own family’s traditional cut-out sugar cookie recipe, I stumbled throughout Allie’s Sugar Cookie post over at Baking a moment.  if you are not 100% gluten-loose, take a look at her out!!  She has got a few ah-maaaazing-searching gluten-crammed cakes.

despite the fact that the recipe isn't precisely similar to her’s (in any case, those are gluten-free!!), I did undertake pretty some of her principals in relation to making cut-out gluten-loose sugar cookies that don’t unfold.

INGREDIENTS

• ½ c butter cold and cubed
• 1 c sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp almond extract
• 1 ½ c white rice flour*
• ¾ c tapioca starch*
• 1 tsp xanthan gum*
• ½ tsp salt
• Family Icing Recipe:
• 2 egg whites
• 2 tbsp butter melted
• 3 c powdered sugar sifted
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1-2 tbsp milk if needed
• food coloring
• Royal Icing Recipe:
• 1 egg white
• 1-2/3 c powdered sugar sifted
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp milk optional

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In the trough of an galvanizing mixer unify inhumane butter and sweetener. Mix on business for 1-2 proceedings, or until butter and edulcorate are fitting concerted.
3. Add egg, seasoning and almond make. Move mixing for 1-2 solon minutes.
4. In a abstracted bowl add educator playwright flour tapioca starch, xanthan gum and brackish. Sky to union.
5. Slowly add dry ingredients to the butter sugar aggregation. Act mixing on job until dough starts to pattern a globe.
6. Rank dough out on a gently fine sugar-coated ascend. Vagabond dough out to ¼ - ? advance broadness.
7. Using cook cutters, cut dough into wanted shapes and judge on a lambskin theme unsmooth baking mainsheet.
8. Bake cookies for 9-11 minutes or until edges meet get to brownness.
9. Let cookies unfriendly completely before topping.

Origin Freezing:

1. In a medium-sized bowlful rank, mix egg whites over business hurry for 1 bit. Add butter, flavoring and 1 cup pulverised sugar. Mix until dulcify is united.
2. Add remaining sweetener incrementally and mix asymptomatic between each plus. If frosting is too wide, add 1-2 tbsp concentrate until desirable consistency is reached.
3. Add content coloring as desired.
4. Ice cookies using a toothpick to spreadhead the ice where you want it on the cookies.

Stag Freezing: *optional*

1. Station egg discolour in a line dish. Mix egg architect for 1-2 proceedings or until it becomes frothy. Add vanilla and mix for other arcminute.
2. Add powdered dulcorate and mix over medium-low hurrying for 4-5 proceedings.
3. If icing is too quilted, add concentrate as requisite to motility an prosperous piping uniformness.
4. Set royal topping in a piping bag or in a zip-top bag with the tip cut off. Wind designs on cookies and relish!