Simple Gluten Free Sugar Cookies

my take

Nicole’s Recipe Notes

• Basic style and texture: delicate, tender cookies which are frivolously candy with a number of vanilla taste.
• Good for all events: they’re going to maintain any form, from rounds and fundamental Christmas stars to Valentine Hearts, spring flowers, Easter bunnies, and many others.
• Fast and straightforward: the dough is made in a single bowl, with no chilling wanted, and so they’re able to eat in simply half-hour, begin to end.
• Smooth however not fragile: they melt-in-your-mouth, however they’re thick sufficient that they will not break. I’ve even shipped these cookies throughout the U.S. (with icing, not frosting), and so they arrived wanting good!

My Professional Tip

Knowledgeable Ideas

Measure your elements by weight

For the reason that cookie recipe has so few elements, it is actually essential that they are all in good stability. You’ll discover that the dough resembles moist crumbs and clumps, and also you could be tempted so as to add extra moisture.

Ensure you’re measuring your elements (particularly the gluten free flour) by weight, not quantity, for exact outcomes.

Use delicate room temperature butter

The time period “room temperature” for butter, eggs, and different baking elements often means about 68°F. Right here, if the butter is beneath about 70°F, it could be tough to work into the dry elements evenly.

To hurry its softening, chop chilly butter into small items and let it sit on the counter for about 20 minutes. Float chilly eggs in very heat water throughout that point, too, or they’re going to make the butter clump.

Knead the dough till clean

When you attain a uniform combination that resembles moist crumbs and clusters, knead the dough with clear palms to deliver it collectively earlier than rolling it out. You may also use a stand mixer with a paddle attachment to make clean dough simply, however keep away from a handheld mixer with beater attachments or your cookies could have an excessive amount of air.

Ornament suggestions

• Spoon a beneficiant quantity of frosting on the highest of a cookie in a mound. Moisten a small spoon, insert it into the middle of the frosting at an angle and swirl frivolously in a circle.
• For traditional Lofthouse-style frosting, use a small moistened offset spatula or a easy broad butter knife to flatten a mound of frosting right into a disk.
• At all times let the frosting to set at room temperature till it turns into semi-hard so it is not so fragile.
• For a really arduous floor, use royal icing rather than frosting. To brighten sugar cookies, I exploit a #4 piping tip to stipulate after which “flood” the middle, sprinkling decorations instantly earlier than the icing has dried.

make forward/leftovers

Storage directions

As soon as these cookies are cooled, you’ll be able to retailer them plain in a sealed glass container at room temperature. They will keep contemporary that means for at the least 1 week. In case you’ve used royal icing and allowed it to set totally, they’re going to last as long as 2 weeks that means.

With the buttercream meringue frosting, as soon as it is set, you’ll be able to stack them and retailer them in a sealed glass container for as much as 2 days.

For longer storage, freeze them. If they have been frosting, freeze in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet for two hours, then pile them right into a freezer-safe zip prime bag and freeze for as much as 3 months. Defrost at room temperature. Do not warmth cookies with icing or frosting or the topping will soften.

You may also freeze the uncooked cookie dough. Roll out the dough, lower out shapes, and freeze the rounds in stacks with a lightweight dusting of gluten free flour between them. Wrap them tightly and freeze. While you’re able to bake, place the rounds on ready baking sheets and allow them to defrost earlier than baking as ordinary.