Gingerbread Cookies (Gluten Free)

Submitted by dizzydi

"A delicious gingery cookie that bakes up crisp. Nice baked into lovely shapes and iced using royal icing. A real bonus is that these tasty little cookies are also gluten free!!!!!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 30mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 30 cookies
• Serves: 30

ingredients

• 2 cups gluten-free flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 egg
• 125 g butter
• 1⁄4 cup golden syrup
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar

directions

1. In a bowl cream the butter and brown sugar.
2. Add golden syrup and egg and mix till combined.
3. In a seperate bowl sift together all the dry ingredients, then add to the wet ingredients.
4. Mix together and then refrigerate for 1 hour.
5. Remove dough from refrigerator and place onto a floured surface and knead lightly.
6. roll out to 5mm thickness and then cut into shapes using cookie cutters.
7. Bake in 170 degree celsius oven for approx 15 minutes or till well browned.
8. Leave to cool on trays for 5 minutes then transfer to cooking racks.
9. when cool ice with royal icing or any hard setting icing.

Reviews

[Laurapoulsen]

Loved this recipe! Here's some helpful info if you're American though: 125g of butter is roughly 1/2C plus 1T. We also don't have golden syrup here so I used 1/4C of Molasses instead. After reading the comments, I added more spice too: 1/4t each of allspice and ground cloves. Baked at 350 for 9 minutes. Perfection!

 

[Johanna L.]

The taste was amazing. I added extra spices, delicious! The dough was too soft, it might be the brands of GF flour we have in NZ. They are all such a fine consistency that they don't make dough very easily. However I just made lil round cookies since the dough was too soft for rolled out cookie cutting. I iced them as lil reindeer! So cute!

 

[aussieqzine]

This is the best gingerbread ever!! And the only recipe I could find that didnt need molasses. Awesome, thank you :)

 

[Shaz Hank]

This cookies recipe is so easy and delicious. I have tried many different recipes for Gingerbread, this was by far my best experience. They look as great as they taste, that is my favorite part. I made them with my kids and the had a blast making pretty cookies!

 

[u.mackenzie1]

This is the best Gluten Free recipe ever. That biscuit did not crumble nor did they stay undercooked and you would never know that it is Gluten Free. I would recommend this recipe to any coeliacs and to people trying to find a good Gluten Free ginger bread recipe.