GF Sugar Cookies

SO DELICIOUS guys!

Ingredients: 

3/4 cup shortening

1/2 cup butter

2 cups sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp pure vanilla

5 cups GF flour (I used Namaste) 

2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp salt

Instructions:

Cream the shortening, sugar and butter together. After it is light and fluffy, add 4 eggs, one at a time, beating after each egg is added to the sugar mixture. Add the vanilla and beat. Sift together 5 cups of flour with 2 tsp baking powder and 2 tsp of salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients slowly so the flour doesn't fly everywhere.

Chill dough for 1 hour. Divide the dough into 3 or 4 balls and then roll them out, one at a time on a floured surface to the thickness you desire. I like them about 1/4" thick. Cut the cookies out with cookie cutters and lift with a flexible spatula to the cookie sheets. Bake them at 400 degrees for about 6-8 minutes, be careful not to let them brown. Cool, frost and decorate.

This recipe is my brother's- sister-in law's Brittany Devine's. I had these when I wasn't GF, they were amazing, so I was hesitant to try them GF because they might not hold up to those expectations... but man they were SO DELICIOUS!

In the cookies shown above, I used cream cheese frosting because I had some left over.

GF flourless (easy) Peanut Butter Cookies

While at home over Christmas break, my sis Bree made the yummiest, easiest cookies ever. See below if you want in on the secrets.

Recipe: 

1 cup Brown Sugar

1 cup PB (not crunchy, duh)

1 large egg

Small bag of mini Reese's PB cups (cut in half)

Makes about 20 cookies.

The smaller the cookie, the better. You'll realize that later when you eat a big one that it is so rich, it will take you forever to finish just one! So small is best. Oh and don't grease the pan unless you have to.

 Heat in oven for 6-9 minutes at 350. I cut the Reeses in half before I started to cook because you want to be prepared to stick them on the cookie while they're still warm.

Let cool with tin foil over them (not in fridge) and serve when the Reese's are hardened again. I like to eat them the day after because they're not as rich. The first day, it's sorta overwhelming. But the second day is just right and they become very addicting.

GF Chocolate-Chip, Oatmeal Cookies

   

Recipe: mix between: Lindsay's Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, Singley's, & Tollhouse.