Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies - no guar or xanthan gums

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Cookies - old family favorite - converted to GF.
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg, large
1/2 cup peanut butter - gluten free
1 cup tapioca flour
1/2 cup brown rice flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
Cream butter and sugar together.  Stir in vanilla extract, egg and peanut butter.  Mix the flours and soda together and mix into the butter, sugar, egg, peanut butter mixture.  Form into 1" balls and place on
 baking sheet.  Bake at 350* for 10 - 12 minutes - until light brown.
Optional - add chocolate chips or M & M's.

Mock Oatmeal Cookies - Gluten Free, Oat Free, Gum Free

This recipe has been a favourite for over 30  years.  When we went gluten free I hardly ever made them.  Today I was inspired to try them out again altering the ingredients to make them gluten free but to still have the same texture and taste.





Mock Oatmeal Cookies
1/2 cup margarine or butter softened
1/2 cup cooking oil (or use another 1/2 cup butter or margarine)
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 large egg
3 rice cakes (plain, Quaker brand style) - crumbled up by hand
1/2 cup flax meal (ground flax seed)
1/4 cup hot tap water
11/2  cup tapioca flour
1 cup brown rice flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mix flax and crumbled rice cakes into a bowl.  Add the hot water and mix together.  Set aside.
Cream margarine, oil and sugars.  Add egg, mix until combined.  Mix the flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. Add flour mixture, vanilla extract and flax mixture to the margarine, sugar and egg - mix until combined.  Chill in fridge 1 hour.  Shape into 1" balls and place on parchment lined baking sheets.  Bake at 350 until edges turn light brown about 10 - 12 minutes.  Cool 5-8 minutes remove and place on cooling rack.

Gluten Free Oatmeal Free Monster Cookies

Wanted to make Monster cookies for years.  My husband is celiac and will not eat oats.  I've been doing a lot of high fibre, low carb flax recipes this winter and find that flax meal gets "sticky" like oats.  I figured I'd substitute ground flax for oats in my recipe and did a couple of other changes and it worked out well - taste good too!

Flax Gluten Free Monster Cookies
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup softened margarine or butter
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon Rogers Syrup or Corn Syrup
3/4 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 1/4 cup flax meal
1 tablespoon sweet rice flour
4 tablespoons cream, half and half or milk.
3-4 M & M 's for each cookie - added after being shaped.
Cream Sugar and margarine together.  Mix in egg.  Add remaining ingredients.  Dough will be slightly sticky.
Let sit for about 15 - 30 minutes or chill in fridge.  Make balls of dough and place on parchment lined baking sheet.  Press 3-4 M & M's in each cookie.  Make sure you leave enough space between cookies as these grow quite large.  Bake at 350 for 10 - 12 minutes or until edges get brown.  For a soft cookie do not over bake.

Dough is "sticky".  Chocolate chips have to be added yet.

These are dark looking cookies but taste great!