The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange is a yearly celebration of love, I mean cookies, but that is kind of the same thing and the holiday season is all about sharing and spreading love, some of my dearest blogger friends and I have come together to share our favorite recipes during this week!
The idea is based on an old-fashioned cookie exchange, except it’s virtual. Each blogger is bringing one or more cookies to the party, and we’re offering all kinds of sweets inspirations for your homemade goods for this holiday season! So today I bring my Gluten-free vanilla sugar cookies.
These are not exactly my grandma's recipe cause back when she baked gluten-free wasn't invented yet! but close enough!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter 2 butter sticks softened
- 1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¾ cup Bob’s Red Mill gluten free baking flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine all dry ingredients (baking flour, baking powder, and salt) and reserve.
- In the stand-up mixer bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Then add the egg and vanilla extract, mix until well combined then add flour mixture and mix until fully incorporated.
- Shape dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for at least 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 325°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and reserve.
- Remove dough from refrigerator and discard plastic wrap. Place cold dough between two pieces of parchment paper and roll out to ⅛-inch thickness, removing and replacing parchment paper as needed. Cut out desired shapes using lightly floured cookie cutters and place on prepared baking sheets, about 1-inch apart.
- Bake cookies until edges are slightly golden, 15 – 18 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through baking. Let cool completely (about 30 minutes) before decorating.
- While cookies bake, prepare your favorite icing and colored sugar. For colored sugar, divide sugar into ¼ cup portions. Add 1 – 2 drops of food coloring per portion and mix thoroughly to distribute color.
- To prepare icing, combine powdered sugar and milk in a bowl and whisk until smooth. Adjust consistency as needed with extra milk. If desired, divide icing into separate containers and color with food coloring.
- Decorate your cookies with your kids! They’ll love to give out cookies they have decorated themselves! Happy Holidays!
Nutrition
In my house, one Christmas, my grandma overcooked or toasted a little bit extra vanilla cookies (We usually call them mantecados) and from that moment on We all asked her to toast them on purpose!! This is kind of the internal joke now, still! That if the cookies are not a little bit burn they are not Grandma Beba's cookies.
Here are some of the cookie recipes we have shared with the #SweetestSeasonCookies :
Gluten-free vanilla sugar cookies #sweetestseasoncookies, Spanish lemon polvorones #glutenfree #sugarfree #SweetestSeasonCookies, Chocolate almond coconut keto cookies, and Alfajores
Be sure to check all the cookie recipes that are going to be posted until Friday with our hashtag #sweetestseasoncookies, so please follow along, and we hope to offer all kinds of holiday baking inspiration for the year’s sweetest season!
Decorate your cookies with your kids! They’ll love to give out cookies they have decorated themselves! Happy Holidays!
Oh, I'm loving these Vanilla Sugar Cookies and the story of your grandmother behind them! And I can imagine these would FLY off the table at my house because we LOVE traditional sugar cookies. (Who doesn't?)
Well done with these! And thank you so much for contributing a delicious recipe to The Sweetest Season!
Erin! Thank you for dropping by! it was my pleasure to get into this fun exchange! ☺?❤
Hahaha...I love that these cookies need to be extra toasted in order to count as Grandma's! Funny how traditions like that get started, isn't it? But these cookies are totally gorgeous, Gaila. So festive! I love (love!) sugar cookies, so I know I would go to town on these...and the extra toasted ones? Pass them my way! (Also, that Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Flour is pretty darned awesome. I just made a cake with it...stay tuned as it will be coming up soon!) 🙂
Traditions are the best, especially around the holidays! And grandma's recipes have GOT to be good, right? Love sugar cookies and those snowman designs are so adorable!! These wouldn't last long around me 🙂
I agree! grandma's recipes are the best!!! and cookies like these won't last long anywhere! hehehehehe
These cookies are so adorable! I love how you made snowmen in them! Pinned!
Rachelle!! thank you for inviting me to come along in this fun cookie exchange!!! ?
Yay to cookies!!! Love this recipe so much and your cookie stamp is so adorable too. Pinning to make for Christmas 🙂
Karrie! thank you for stopping by!! yes cookies are the best!! Happey rest of the week!
I have yet to try making gluten free cookies, so thank you for sharing the recipe for these!! I ADORE sugar cookies, so I can't wait to try these beauties! Cheers!
Sugar cookies are a classic that never gets old I think!! no matter how many cookie recipes you have, you have to make these at least once a year! cheers my friend!
It wouldn't be the holidays without some yummy sugar cookies Gaila! I have a friend who needs to eat gluten free, so I'll need to treat her to some of these!
Mary Ann! I began cooking gluten free recipes for Patrick, my husband who is a very picky eating and he loves this recipe!!!☺
Sugar cookies are a must at our holiday gatherings and yours are so adorable!! Nothing beats the classics!
Annie! you are totally right! Nothing beats a classic!
I’m on the search for the best sugar cookie known to man. This recipe could be what I’ve been looking for.
I am glad you liked my recipe! I hope when you make them you like them too!
Sugar cookies are the best! I have to find my cookie cutters and make a batch ASAP!
I agree with you Megan! Sugar cookies are great! thank you for stopping by!
Dear Gaila - these sugar cookies are lovely. And Grandma inspired. So cute and tasty too, love the snowmen. We are getting snow this coming Monday and Tuesday - we might be making a snowman for real! While the kids make it maybe I will bake these cookies. Have a wonderful weekend my friend!
Dear Allie!! Can you take pics of your kid's snowman?? I'll love that!! Happy weekend ⛄❄⛄
There's nothing better than some buttery vanilla cookies around Christmas, Gaila! Well, I'm wrong. There's nothing better than a lot of cookies all December:) This old good classic won't disappoint. Never.
Yes! Ben There's nothing better tha a lot of cookies!!! cheers!