Recipes for 3 Great Gluten Free Cookies

This time of year, we always try to feature cookie recipes. And this year, we’re trying to expand our inclusiveness with gluten free cookies.

One of our favorite things about the Holidays is baking (and eating) Christmas cookies. This year, in addition to making our usual Icing Cookies and maybe a batch or two of Seduction Cookies to save for a romantic evening, we’re exploring recipes for gluten free Holiday cookies–ones that, of course, feature aphrodisiac ingredients!

Three of the best gluten-free cookies

We at Eat Something Sexy have a serious love affair with gluten. But we also think that those with gluten intolerance shouldn’t have to miss out on the joy of cookies. So this week we’re offering recipes for three of the best gluten free cookies we’ve ever tried. And these recipes aren’t classics remade with gluten-free ingredients so they “almost” taste like the real thing but not quite. No, our gluten-free friends deserve the very best–naturally, organically gluten-free recipes that are delicious just the way they are!

Gluten-Free Buckwheat Nut Bites

This recipe comes to us from Estonian baker Pille Petersoo of the Nami-Nami blog. In Estonia, buckwheat flour is quite popular and here she uses it in the kind of simple, comforting cookie that would normally call for wheat flour. This means they are deliciously and naturally gluten free Christmas cookies. (You can also use rice flour for this recipe, although it gives slightly less depth of flavor.)

If you’re interested in more uses for buckwheat, follow Pille’s Buckwheat Pinterest board.

Gluten-Free Buckwheat Nut Bites

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A simple and hearty cookie, it uses buckwheat flour in place of white flour for a more complex flavor and texture.

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine Estonian

Dish Type cookie

Cooking Style Baking

Diet and Health gluten-free

Seasonal Christmas

Ingredient Buckwheat Flour

Servings 2 dozen cookies

Author Pille Petersoo

Ingredients

• Ingredients
• 4 oz butter softened
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup buckwheat flour light
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/3 cup chopped hazelnuts or chopped/sliced almonds

Instructions

• Heat the oven to 350F.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Cream together the butter and sugar, followed by the egg.
• Mix in the flour, baking powder and nuts. Combine. (If the mixture is on the dry side, add a spoonful or two of cold water)*.
• Take a heaped teaspoonful of the mixture, roll into balls and place onto the baking sheet. Gently press with a fork to flatten the cookie dough balls a little.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes in the preheated oven until the cookies are light golden.
• Let cool for about 5 minutes, then transfer onto the metal rack to cool completely.

Notes

* I've also used a different method - combined all the dry ingredients (buckwheat flour, sugar, baking powder), added the grated softened butter and the egg, and simply mixed everything and rolled into walnut-sized balls.

Gluten Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Sea Salt

This recipe for gluten free chocolate chip cookies is one you’re going to want to make, even if you aren’t avoiding gluten! It was created by one of our favorite bakers, Leah Kuo, (who, by the way, normally bakes with gluten). And although Leah is among our posse of gluten lovers, she believing in baking for all tastes and dietary needs.

That’s why she created this irresistibly delicious recipe for gluten free choc chip cookies. By the way, if you’re looking for a good gluten free oatmeal cookie recipe, try this gluten-free cookie dough with raisins or craisins instead of chocolate chips.

Love this recipe? Check out Leah’s Raspberry Semifreddo. 

Gluten-Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Sea Salt

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What a treat! These oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are just the right amount of sweet, just the right amount of chewy and they're naturally gluten-free.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Dish Type cookie

Cooking Style Baking

Diet and Health gluten-free

Seasonal Christmas, Easter, Fourth of July, Holiday season

Ingredient chocolate chips, oatmeal

Servings 2 dozen

Author Leah Kuo

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups unsalted butter
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons rice flour
• 1 ¼ cup cassava flour
• 1 ¾ tsp baking powder
• ¾ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp sea salt
• 2 1/3 cups gluten-free oats
• 1 12- oz bag semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Whisk the rice flour, cassava flour, baking powder, baking soda, and sea salt.
• In a mixer, cream the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add in eggs and vanilla and beat until combined.
• Add in dry ingredients and beat to combine.
• Add in oats and mix until distributed evenly.
• Fold in chocolate chips.
• Spoon balls of dough on to baking sheets and press down slightly.
• Bake for about 12 minutes until slightly golden. Cookies will be slightly chewy. If you want a crisp cookie bake an additional 3-4 minutes.
• Cool cookies on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes, then remove the cookies onto a cooling rack.

3 Ingredient Gluten Free Cashew Cookies

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Our Editorial Director Amy Reiley came up with this recipe for fast and easy, gluten free cookies. It was inspired by the Doli di Noci recipe from Southern Italian Desserts: Rediscovering the Sweet Traditions of Calabria, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, and Sicily. But Amy puts a tropical spin on this Italian favorite by using cashew instead of the traditional walnut. And as the name implies, there’s only three ingredients! By the way, not only is are they gluten free but these are dairy free cookies.

Our favorite flourless cookie recipe, this is one of the easiest cookie recipes you’ll ever find. And it is also one that lends itself well to variation. For example, try topping each cookie with a cashew half or folding in chocolate chips before baking. Or experiment with other nut flours to make a naturally gluten free cookie recipe of your own.

Want more great recipes? Don’t miss these gluten free peanut butter cookies. 

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Amy's Gluten-Free Cashew Cookies

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This three ingredient cookie is one of the easiest cookie recipes you'll ever try! What's not to love?

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Dish Type cookie

Cooking Style Baking

Diet and Health dairy-free, gluten-free

Seasonal Christmas, Holiday season

Ingredient Chashew Nut

Servings 18 cookies

Author Amy Reiley

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups cashew meal*
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 lage egg
• *If you can't find cashew meal you can make your own by pulsing 2 1/4-2 /12 c unsalted cashews in a food processor. Or substitute almond meal.

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 375°F with a rack in the upper third of the oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
• Combine the cashew meal and sugar in a medium mixing bowl.
• Make a well in the middle of the cashew/sugar mixture and add the egg.
• Use a fork to briefly whisk the egg, then begin incorporating the nuts until everything is thoroughly combined. (You'll need to finish the mixture with your hands.) The dough will be quite moist and a little sticky.
• Divide the dough into two pieces On a flat surface, shape each piece of the dough into an 8-inch log, flattening the sides to make a bar about 1 inch on each side. Cut the bar into 9 even segments.
• Space the cookies evenly on the prepared baking sheet, standing upright (not on a cut side) with 1 inch of space on each side. Repeat with the remaining bar.
• Bake the cookies on the upper oven rack for about 15 minutes, until they are golden all over.
• Cool on the pan for about 5 minutes before removing.

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