Enjoy this easy recipe for gluten-free sugar cookies using The Pure Pantry’s Old Fashioned baking mix. Order your gluten-free, organic baking mix today from our on-line store. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Ingredients
3/4 cup organic sugar or molasses sugar
2 tablespoons agave nectar
1/2 cup coconut oil (solidified and cold, not at melting point), Earth Balance buttery sticks or Spectrum shortening
2 tablespoons coconut milk or rice milk
1 tablespoon bourbon vanilla or regular vanilla
2 cups The Pure Pantry Old Fashioned Baking Mix
Instructions
In a large mixing bowl fitted with paddle attachment, blend sugar and coconut oil (or Earth balance or non-hydrogenated shortening) and beat until well blended. Add coconut or rice milk and vanilla. Beat again until blended. With mixer on low speed, add half the flour mixture and beat on low speed. Add remaining flour mixture and , using your hands, knead dough until it is smooth and blended. Divide dough in half and shape into two balls. Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.
In the meantime, make the decorating icing:
Casein Free- Dairy Free (vegan) Vanilla Icing
1 box powdered sugar
2 tablespoons cold water
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons agave nectar
1 tablespoon Earth balance margarine or coconut oil
In a large mixing bowl with paddle attachment blend cold water, vanilla, agave and margarine. Sift into bowl 1 box confectioner’s sugar. Blend on low speed until combined. If too dry add 1 teaspoon cold water. If too wet, add 1 tablespoon more sugar. Set icing aside.
To Bake Cookies:
Lightly flour a work surface and rolling pin with rice flour. Roll out ball of dough into a rectangle about 1/4 inch thick. Press gingerbread pal cookie cutter into dough to cut out shapes.
Transfer cookies to greased baking sheets. Repeat with second ball of dough. Gather scraps of dough into a ball, roll out dough and continue cutting out cookies until all dough is used. Bake cookies until golden brown, about 8-10 minutes. Cool on racks.
Frost cooled cookies with thin amount of icing. Icing can be placed in a pastry bag to pipe designs on cookies.