5 New Gluten-Free Cookie Recipes You Can Make With Kids
How many times has your kid refused to attend parties or to throw one because he or she is allergic to gluten? Several times, right? Our gluten-free cookie recipes will ease your woes. Made with nutritious ingredients, which are tasty too, these easy to bake gluten free cookies will become the star in your child’s next playhouse session.
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heart-shaped cookies
As a parent you can get stressed to find gluten-free substitutes for the carbs your child intakes. Gluten intolerance is, however, quite a common problem, depriving kids of many delicacies. Don’t worry; we have here the popular and easy to bake Gluten-Free Cookie Recipes for children. Your little ones will have fun baking these!
The best Gluten Free Cookie Recipes to Make With Your Kids
1. Cartoon-Shaped Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
We prepared 24 cookies of approximately 4-inches dimension, so the proportions are provided accordingly.
A mix of gluten-free flours (available in most supermarkets)- 1 cup
Plant-based organic butter at room temperature- 3/4th of a cup
Organic brown sugar: 3/4th of a cup
One teaspoon of baking powder (you can adjust it as per your desired consistency)
Almond milk or soy milk: 2-5 tablespoons.
Organic food dye, if you want to infuse some colour
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract for flavour
Salt: 1/4th teaspoon
Recipe
Whisk the flour blend, baking powder and salt together in a mixing bowl with a hand or electric whisk.
Now whip the butter with the organic sugar for two minutes. The vanilla extract is to be mixed and the mixture beaten until the essence fully blends.
Add the dry mixture to the buttery mixture, slowly until soft dough is formed.
Divide the dough into two halves and sprinkle flour on each, rolling them with a rolling pin on parchment paper.
With a cartoon-shaped cookie cutter, cut out your favourite shapes and bake for 10 minutes. Take them out when they have developed golden-brown hue at the edges.
Cool the cookies and serve!
2. Gluten-free Cookie Recipes With Oatmeal And Apples
Ingredients
Rolled oats or oatmeal (the top cereal brands will certify their oat products as certified gluten-free): 1 cup
Flour (gluten-free blend): 1 cup
Apples: 2
Baking soda: 1 teaspoon
Grated apple: 1 ½ cup
Raisins: 1 cup
Coconut oil: 1/2 cup
Ground flax seed: 1 tablespoon
Maple syrup/honey: 1/3rd cup
Ground cinnamon: 1 teaspoon
Recipe
cookies with dried fruit filling
With a wooden spoon, blend all the ingredients and chill in the freezer. Meanwhile, heat the oven to 180 °C
After rolling the dough into one-fourth thick spread, cut out your desired shapes. Place the shapes on the paper-lined tray and bake for twenty minutes.
Set for a few minutes after taking out from the oven.
3. Almond Cookies Filled With Choco Chips
Since almond flour is gluten-free unlike all-purpose flour, our readers asked for yummy recipes. So kids, here’s our best choice from gluten-free cookie recipes with almond flour.
Ingredients (For 24 cookies)
Almond flour boiled and soaked – 3 cups.
Fresh eggs- 2
Coconut oil- 1/4th of a cup
Kosher salt- half a teaspoon
Vanilla essence- 2 teaspoons
Brown sugar- 3/4th of a cup
Chocolate chips- 1 1/4th cups
Half a cup of butter at room temperature
A pinch of baking soda
Process
Heat your oven to 180 °C and spread parchment paper over the cookie sheet.
Beat the sugar, coconut oil and butter together in a mixing bowl till it forms a creamy mass. Now add the eggs and the vanilla essence and whisk again.
Add the baking soda and the salt. Now mix the almond flour, pouring a cup at a time, whisking continuously. With a spoon, blend the chocolate chips into the dough.
After rolling the dough, cut round shapes from it. Bake the cookies till they become slightly brown. Serve when cooled.
Since chocolate is a universal after-meal favourite, we included this tasty cookie in our list of gluten-free dessert recipes for kids party.
4. Peanut Butter Cookies
Don’t have gluten-free flour at hand? Try our selection from gluten-free cookie recipes without flour.
peanut butter and strawberry cookies
Ingredients
Peanut butter- 1 cup
Fresh egg- 1
Natural sweetener- ½ cup
Vanilla essence- 1 teaspoon
Recipe
Line a baking tray with parchment paper and heat the oven to 180 °C
Whisk all the ingredients in a mixing bowl until a thick dough is formed.
Roll the dough and cut the cookies with a cutter.
Place the cookies in the tray and bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
Cool the cookies and then serve.
5. Fun Gluten-Free Cookie Recipes-Thumbprint cookies
Ingredients
Almond flour- 2 cups
Brown sugar- ½ cup
Egg yolks- 2
Vanilla essence- 1 teaspoon
Kosher salt- 1/4 teaspoon
Gummy bears- 3 dozen (1 for each cookie)
Recipe
Whisk butter and brown sugar to form a creamy texture. Now pour the yolks, one at a time, beating constantly.
Stir the vanilla essence, flour and salt till fully blended.
Now freeze the mixture for 10 minutes after covering it with cling film.
Preheat the oven to 180 °C
Make small balls from the cookie dough and arrange on the paper-lined pan.
Press deeply with your thumb in the middle of each ball.
Bake these balls for 10 minutes.
Take them out and press a gummy bear in each cavity. Bake again till the cookies go golden-brown. The gummies will melt in 2 minutes.
After cooling the cookies, serve with other snacks!
Conclusion:
The cookie recipes listed here are all made with ingredients easily available at your nearest supermarket. That’s why you can recommend it to anybody who wants gluten-free dessert recipes with normal ingredients. Did your little one like baking these cookies too? How was the experience? Share in the comment section!