You'll Crack Your Head Open!

Look….!  Aren’t they pretty..?  I still can’t believe I made those.

A few weeks ago I came across this blog - Bake at 350 .  You’ve got to go look.  Go ahead.  I’ll wait…. Okay good you’re back.  Can you even believe how amazing those cookies look?  I! know!

So… since Christmas is coming I decided to go ahead and give it a shot.  Gluten free, schmuten free.  Whatever.

I decided to go ahead and try her cookie recipe to see how it worked with my GF flour mix.  I wasn’t expecting much.  I was expecting it to turn out fine, but I didn’t think it would be any big deal.  I was so wrong.  It’s perfect.  You can go straight from mixing the dough to rolling and cutting it and putting it in the oven.  You don’t have to baby it at all, or refrigerate it first.  It doesn’t fall apart either.  Other than the GF flour, I didn’t modify it at all.   It was just like making regular cookies.  And they taste sooo good.  The cookies themselves aren’t too sweet so they hold up to having all of that sugar from the icing.  And they’re not heavy or dense.  They’re light in texture yet they hold together.  A total gluten free paradox.

I have to be honest and say I didn’t make my own royal icing, although I probably will next time just to get a wider range of colors.  But for these, I just used Betty Crocker’s Cookie Icing in the little squeezy bags.

It’s basically royal icing. It sets up hard and the whole bit, so you can do what Bridget does with all of the layering and other nifty stuff.  I also used some sprinkles I already had in my stash.  For the Christmas ornaments and the snowman face I used (clean) tweezers to place them.  On the stocking I did the white stocking cuff and letter first, let that dry and then did the red part so it wouldn’t bleed together.

I’ve got to say that when it comes to my kids, there’s nothing more important to me than making sure they don’t feel left out of anything because of food.  So when my daughter’s class did a Cookies Around the World cookie exchange, I had to make sure she not only had an international cookie to share (gluten free fattigmann), but she also had some really pretty cut out cookies too.

I can seem myself becoming totally addicted to making these.  So much fun.