Excellent gluten-free Sugar Cookies

[mumseyh]

I adapted this from an award winning old family recipe, and they turned out great!

Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies

1 cup shortening plus 2T butter

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

(mix the above ingredients until creamy)

Add:

1 egg plus one egg white

1 t vanilla

approx 1/2 t salt

1/2 t cream of tartar

1 t baking soda

2 t xanthum gum

2 cups of flour mix: I used 1 cup of superfine brown rice flour and 1 cup Grandma Ferdon's flour mix

Mix together and chill for an hour. Then roll in balls. Flatten out on baking sheet with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar. Bake until light brown (12-15 minutes) at 350 degrees. For Christmas, I sprinkled with red and green sugar after flattening.

The original recipe used regular flour and no xanthum gum. It also only used one egg, but mine seemed a little dry, so I added the egg white.

[AndreaB]

These sound good.....Thanks.

[ptkds]

You are awesome!! I have a VERY similar sugar cookie recipe that I tried to adapt the other day to be gluten free. They came out all crumbly, but tasted great! All the other recipes I have found have to be rolled out. I HATE rolling out cookie dough. I will try our your version of my favorite recipe and see how it tastes!!!!

Thanks,

ptkds