4 Ingredient Gluten-Free Shortbread Cookies. Soft, delicious and easy to bake Christmas cookies!
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Welcome to the first recipe released in December!! AHHH this is so exciting. I can finally unleash my Christmas spirit on everyone without them rolling their eyes at me! And what better recipe to publish then a Christmas shortbread recipe. This recipe just roars Christmas holidays!
So what is shortbread exactly? Shortbread is usually a cookie made with one part sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour... This sounds delicious right? Yep. But not for a dairy and gluten-free consumer like this ol' gal!
I sat down at the kitchen table one morning with my laptop and a cup of coffee.. I started searching for gluten-free and dairy-free ingredients to put together to make the most perfectly soft and smooth shortbread cookies.
It only took two rounds of baking these cookies to find the most perfect combination!
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P.s if anyone is wondering I am back from my cruise! It was absolutely incredible. We had such a wonderful time. The weather wasn't the greatest, but we made the best of it. I will be doing a few posts on everything, but if your eager to see what we did, I am already uploading some vlogs to my youtube channel so make sure you head over there and watch them!
I recently bought the iPhone 8 Plus before I left for my trip. I backed up my old phone on and moved everything over via iCloud. When I got home I plugged my phone into my MacBook and iTunes automatically recovered everything from my old phone... which wiped ALL my photos off my phone from the trip. I was devastated. I was able to recover a few things from iCloud but most are gone. So my posts will have very minimal photos and I am sorry for that! Gotta hate technology at times... grrrrrr.
How to Make 4-Ingredient Shortbread Cookies
These cookies are super easy to make, mostly because they are only 4 ingredients! Not counting the green and red candied cherries, which are optional.
I also made these gluten and dairy-free (just like all my recipes on the blog). You can totally change the ingredients if you don't need these to be gluten or dairy-free. It is up to you of course, whatever your family needs/allergies are, you can make it work!
I used vegan earth balance butter and this gluten-free flour!
4 Ingredient Gluten-Free Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup soft non-dairy butter
- 2 ¼ cups gluten-free flour
- ⅓ cup pure maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ - 1 cup red and green candied cherries optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat.
- Using an electric beater on medium, combine butter, maple syrup and vanilla extract.
- Fold in flour using a wooden spoon. Add in candied cherries (if using).
- Once all well mixed, make small balls and push onto baking sheet, forming cookies.
- Bake for 12-16 minutes, or until edges are golden brown.
- Cool and serve!
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