Gluten Free Sugar Cookies & Icing
Gluten Free Sugar Cookies take a traditional cookie recipe and add colorful icing and fun toppings. You can make these for just about any holiday. They're so easy to bake, and fun to decorate with the whole family!
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 187kcal
Equipment
- mixer
- Sheet pan
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 3 1/4 cup gluten free all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
Icing
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp light corn syrup
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Desired food coloring (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a bowl, cream together butter, shortening, and sugar. Mix in vanilla extract and then eggs until just blended.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
- Mix dry ingredients with wet ingredients until well combined.
- Make small 1-2 inch balls of dough in your hand, flatten about half way, and place on baking sheet.
- Bake 8-10 minutes, or until cookies are just starting to brown around the edges.
For Icing
- Whisk all ingredients together until well mixed. Use on cooled cookies.
Notes
Click on the time in the instructions to start a timer!
Use an ice cream scoop to make each cookie uniform in size.
Nutrition
Calories: 187kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 26mg | Sodium: 79mg | Potassium: 17mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 142IU | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 1mg