Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies That Are Dairy-Free

 This holiday season home bakers can create traditional holiday treats that everyone can enjoy. These delicious gingerbread cookies are both gluten-free and dairy-free. They are the perfect holiday cookie for those with food allergies.

I received a sample of Mightylicious to facilitate this post

 If you avoid wheat and dairy, you know the struggle of finding something to enjoy at a holiday party. There are never any gluten-free baked goods on the dessert table. So you always have to say no to enjoying Christmas cookies or you have to bring your own dessert that is gluten-free.

Then there is the struggle of baking holiday treats that are both gluten-free and dairy-free. It can be hard to find a gluten-free flour that makes the best cookies as most gluten-free flours just don't work for making cookie dough. 

Meet Mightylicious 

Mightylicious has a simply delicious answer – three, new high-quality flour blends for baking up mouthwatering treats that look, taste, and act like the real thing. Their flour blends are perfect for all your holiday baking. Mightlylicious has three gluten-free flour blends ~ All Purpose GF flour blend, Vegan GF Flour Blend, and Vegan Chocolate Brownie GF flour Mix.

You may know Mightlylicious for their delicious gluten-free cookies. Their scrumptious handcrafted Mightylicious Gluten Free cookies, named Top Pick in Food & Beverage Magazine, have rocked the gluten-free world with their amazing flavor and perfect crumble-free texture.

These gluten-free flour blends are perfect for making all of your favorite holiday treats like these gingerbread cookies. You can even make vegan Christmas cookies with Mightylicious's Vegan Gluten-free Flour Blend.

All three flour blends are certified gluten-free, kosher, non-GMO verified, and the vegan blends are free from key allergens.

Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies Are

~ Gluten-Free

~  Dairy-Free

~ Delicious 

~ Perfect For Parties

~ Perfect for Cookie Exchanges

~ Soy-Free

~ Celiac-Safe

~ Perfect For Making Gingerbread Men

~ Perfect For Making Gingerbread Houses

Gingerbread is a holiday classic! This gluten-free recipe is perfect for making gingerbread people and gingerbread houses. The cookie dough is perfect for rolling out for using cookie cutters. While these gingerbread cookies taste amazing without frosting, you can frost the cookies after baking them.

 Ingredients Needed

~ Mightylicious Vegan GF Flour Blend

~ Spices - cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg

~ Baking Soda

~ Salt

~ Vegan Butter

~ Egg

~ Brown Sugar

~ Molasses

~ Vanilla Extract

Check out these gluten-free & dairy-free recipes 

~ Gluten-Free Green Onion Pancakes With Thai Peanut Spaghetti Squash

~ Gluten-Free & Vegan White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

~ 1-Ingredient Gluten Free Buckwheat Bread

~ Gluten-Free Bagels Made With Oat Flour

~ 3 Ingredient Vegan Gluten Free Protein Crepes

~ Gluten Free Chocolate Cream Mint Pie

The Best Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe For Baking

Looking for a holiday cookie recipe? This sugar cookie recipe is perfect for holiday cookie exchanges. The cookie dough is so easy to roll for perfect cut-out cookies. It is the best recipe for cookie cutters.

   

 I love baking cookies year-round but when Christmas rolls around, I get excited about Christmas baking. I bring out the cookie cutters and make the best sugar cookies for the holidays. These are the sugar cookies that my kids help me bake as they are the cookies for Santa. They are also the sugar cookies that I bring to holiday cookie exchanges as everyone loves sugar cookie cutouts. 

For the past couple of years, I have baked this classic sugar cookie recipe as this is a cookie recipe that has an easy-to-roll cookie dough. This sugar cookie recipe has a nice buttery flavor and tastes great even without frosting.

These cookies taste great with or without frosting

 When I bake these sugar cookies for Santa, I frost them with cookie frosting, but they also taste great without frosting. I bring out all the Christmas cookie cutters and sprinkles. Then the fun begins! I let my kids frost the holiday cookies and sprinkle them with the color sprinkles. There is always the child who puts on way too much frosting and an overflow of Christmas sprinkles. One year Santa wrote in his letter that the cookies had too many red hot sprinkles on the cookies.

 This is the time of year when this mom overlooks the mess of making Christmas cookies with the kids. They are only a little for a short time. So I don't mind having to sweep up all the cookie sprinkles from the floor. The Christmas memories are so worth having to mop a sticky floor. The best part of making Christmas cookies with my children is seeing them enjoy their cookie creation and placing the best decorated cookies on the plate for Santa. This year I am hoping that my granddaughter will be able to join in the fun of making Christmas cookies.

 This year, I decided to try a new Christmas sugar cookie recipe, instead of baking my Holiday Pumpkin Pie Spiced Sugar Cookies. This sugar cookie recipe contains the usual sugar cookie ingredients like butter, flour, sugar, eggs, and pure vanilla extract but this cookie recipe also contains pure almond extract. I had never used almond extract in my holiday baking but it gives the cookies an amazing taste.

A sugar cookie recipe that has a sweet nutty flavor

The pure almond extract gives the Christmas sugar cookies an amazing taste. It is amazing that a simple flavor like almond extract can make a huge difference and not taste like what one would imagine. That reminds me of the reactions that I always get the first time people try my Lemon Frosted Rosemary Holiday Sugar Cookies. My friends expect the rosemary to make the cookies taste weird but they are always pleasantly surprised at the flavor.

Best Sugar Cookies are

+ Sweet

+ Buttery

+ Best for cookie cutters

+ Easy to roll

+ Make great gifts

+ Great for cookie exchanges

 When I added the pure almond extract to the creamed butter and sugar in my mixer, the aroma of the extract was so good. The almond extract had a pleasant scent that I enjoyed. I thought that my Madagascar Bourbon pure vanilla extract had a wonderful scent but the pure almond extract had a stronger aroma. When it was time to roll the refrigerated sugar cookie dough, the almond scent was so delicious. I just wanted to smell it all day. I thought to myself that the pure almond extract would make a great body fragrance and that I should buy an almond essential to diffuse in my essential oil diffuser. The chilled cookie dough was so easy to roll and the almond oil scent made it the best-ever sugar cookie dough to roll out for the cookie cutters.

No need to frost them as you can bake them with sprinkles

  I decided to take a bit of the sugar cookie dough and use it and make some Christmas cookies. Since I was not making cookies for Santa or a Christmas cookie exchange, I just used a couple of cookie cutters. I also decided to not frost these cookie shapes and instead, I used some colored Christmas cookie sprinkles. I had red and green colored sugar sprinkles that I sprinkled on the unbaked cookie dough shapes before I baked the cookies. I know that the next time I bake these sugar cookies, I will make my delicious lemon blackberry buttercream frosting.

Place the cookie sheets of unbaked cookies in the fridge for 15 minutes before baking

 This sugar cookie recipe is now my favorite Christmas sugar cookie recipe. This is a sugar cookie recipe that has a sweet nutty flavor. 

The best baking tip ~ place the baking sheets of unbaked sugar cookie shapes in the refrigerator for 15 minutes before baking them. This prevents the dough from spreading when baking. This baking hack is amazing and it prevents the cookie shapes from spreading into weird shapes.

Make the cookies sugar-free 

 If you are looking to cut out some carbs in your diet or need a cookie recipe that is low in sugar, then I recommend an amazing low-glycemic sugar substitute that has a taste similar to sugar and can be used in recipes with a 1:1 ratio. Lakanto is a sweetener that is made with monk fruit. Monk fruit is a keto-friendly sweetener that is 300 times sweeter than sugar. Monk fruit extract is rated a zero on the glycemic index and has zero calories and zero carbs so it won’t spike blood sugar diabetics can incorporate it into their diet more easily than sugar. I love using Lakanto in my chocolate chip cookie recipe as the taste is so similar to sugar that my family can not tell that I switched out the sugar for this monk fruit sweetener. This natural sweetener is a keto product. So it is a keto-friendly sweetener that is perfect for your keto recipes.

Check out some other favorite cookie recipes for the holidays

Holiday Pumpkin Pie Spiced Sugar Cookies
https://www.momknowsbest.net/2017/12/holiday-cinnamon-spiced-sugar-cookies.html

Lemon Frosted Rosemary Holiday Sugar Cookies
https://www.momknowsbest.net/2018/12/lemon-frosted-rosemary-holiday-sugar.html

Dairy-Free Soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
https://www.momknowsbest.net/2019/07/dairy-free-soft-pumpkin-chocolate-chip.html

Dairy-Free Rosemary Sugar Cookies
https://www.momknowsbest.net/2018/12/dairy-free-rosemary-sugar-cookies-made.html

The Best Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe

Yield: 36 cookies

Author: Mom Knows Best

A sugar cookie recipe that has a sweet nutty flavor.

ingredients:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1teaspoon Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1 teaspoon Nielsen-Massey Pure Almond Extract
• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• sprinkles or colored sugar

instructions:

How to cook The Best Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe

1. Cream the butter and sugar on medium speed in your electric mixer or cream by hand until light and fluffy.
2. Add the eggs, vanilla, and almond extracts. Beat until combined. Add the salt and the flour, beat until you have a smooth dough. If the dough is sticky, add more flour a tablespoon at a time until it does not stick to your fingers. Place the dough in the refrigerator for an hour or more. 
3. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or Silpat mats.
4. Remove half of the cookie dough from the fridge and on a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thickness.  Place some flour on your rolling pin to prevent it from sticking to the dough. Cut out desired shapes with lightly floured cookie cutters. Place the cookie dough shapes on the baking sheets.
5. Place the baking sheets with the unbaked cookies in the fridge for about 15 minutes to chill. This will prevent the cookies from spreading and losing the shape while baking. If you are not going to frost the cookies, you can sprinkle the unbaked cookies with sprinkles or colored sugar.
6. Preheat the oven at 375 F.  Bake the cookies for 9-11 minutes or until the edges are just starting to brown. Remove the cookie sheets from the oven and let the cookies cool for 5 minutes before removing them. 

Calories
110.55

Fat (grams)
5.51

Sat. Fat (grams)
3.29

Carbs (grams)
13.75

Fiber (grams)
0.28

Net carbs
13.47

Sugar (grams)
5.79

Protein (grams)
1.48

Sodium (milligrams)
13.00

Cholesterol (grams)
23.89

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Dairy-Free Rosemary Sugar Cookies Made With Sola Low Calorie Sweetener

I am not going to let a dairy allergy get in my way of baking cookies

          I received a package of Sola Sweetener to facilitate this post.

 I love baking cookies for Christmas as it is my favorite part of the holidays. Since discovering dairy to be the cause of my out of control asthma, I had to learn how to bake without butter and milk. I never thought I would get excited about store-bought cookies that were made with dark chocolate, vegetable oil, or cocoa powder. Having a dairy allergy has been tough when it comes to making sugar cookies as I know that real butter is essential for the best flavor. So I have been experimenting in the kitchen and using vegan butter in my favorite cookie recipes. I have been discovering that vegan butter is more oily than regular butter so using a bit less in my cookie recipes has helped. I think that also may have to do with the high altitude as I live in the mountain region. I remembered the first time that I made chocolate chip cookies when we moved here and how the cookies spread way too much on the cookie sheet when baking. So I always use less butter when baking cookies and that is also good for my families health. I also try to cut back on the sugar when making treats so since I was making these cookies allergy friendly, I decided to try a low-calorie sweetener in this dairy-free recipe. I am glad that I was able to use real flour in my cookies.

  I discovered Sola at a conference that I attended last month and after trying it in my coffee, I knew that I had to try it in baking. This low-calorie sweetener actually tasted like sugar and did not have that bad after-taste that most sweeteners have. I liked that it looked like real sugar and measured like real sugar. So I decided to see if Sola could past the test of my family in my Rosemary Sugar Cookie recipe. This recipe is a family favorite and my boys have been asking me to bake them. My boys also like my Holiday Cinnamon Spiced Sugar Cookies that I make after Thanksgiving with pumpkin pie spice.

 Sola is a blend of ingredients that, when combined, taste, bake, caramelize, and measure just like sugar. 

 I was amazed that the Sola Sweetener along with the vegan butter creamed up like real sugar and butter do. I made this batch of cookies with the no-roll version as I did not have the time to wait for the cookie dough to chill. My boys enjoyed helping me roll the cookie dough into balls. They are doing a great job when it comes to baking and learning how to remove hot items from the oven. My youngest son made chocolate zucchini bread the other day and did not need my help. I just supervised from the family room. The stand mixer makes it so easy for my son to bake by himself.

 My husband was not home when I made the cookies so I did not tell him that I used a low-calorie sweetener in the cookie recipe. My husband does not like low-calorie sweeteners and can tell when I have used them in recipes, like the time that I made a sugar-free mousse from a mix. My husband did know that I used vegan butter as he won't let me eat foods with dairy in them as he hates to see me coughing up a lung. My husband liked the cookies and did not notice a difference in flavor. I knew that they passed the family test when my boys kept asking if they could have another cookie. My husband kept telling the boys to leave my dairy-free cookies alone so I would not sneak cookies made with dairy like I did last week, and coughed all night. The funny thing is while my husband was telling the boys not to eat my dairy-free cookies, he kept sneaking them so these cookies went fast.

                                       Dairy-Free Rosemary Sugar Cookies

                                           Made with low-calorie sweetener

Makes about 4 dozen cookies

3 cups flour     

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, finely chopped

3/4 cup vegan butter, room temperature

1 cup Sola sugar 

2 large eggs or vegan egg substitute 

In a large bowl, beat the butter and Sola sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs. Then combine the flour, baking soda, salt, and rosemary in a separate bowl. Gradually mix in the flour mixture into the butter mixture. Mix until well combined. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for at least 2 hours or longer. See instructions below to make the cookies right away without having to roll the cookie dough.

Preheat the oven to 350 F. On a lightly floured board, roll out 1/4 of the cookie dough to 1/8 inch thick. Using a cup dipped into flour or a round cookie cutter cut, cut out circles and place on cookie sheets 2 inches apart.  Bake for 10-12 minutes or until edges brown. Let cookies cool for 2 minutes and transfer to a plate to cool completely. Repeat with the rest of the cookie dough.

No-roll cookie instructions

To make the cookies right away without having to wait for the dough to chill just simply take a spoon full of the cookie dough and roll it into a ball. Place the dough onto the cookie sheet and lightly press it down. Bake at 350 F for 10-12 minutes or until lightly brown.

Do you have a favorite dairy-free cookie recipe?

I would love links to dairy-free recipes that you love so I can discover more tasty recipes to help me stay away from dairy products.

Lemon Frosted Rosemary Holiday Sugar Cookies

 Rosemary adds a unique flavor to sugar cookies that is simply so delicious. The lemon frosting adds the perfect amount of tartness. These cookies will impress everyone who takes a bite. You need to make these cookies!

       
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   I think my favorite part of Christmas is cookie exchanges. Not only do I get to have fun making cookies but I get to trade them for lots of other cookies. Christmas is the one time that I spend all day making cookies as they are my favorite food. If I had to choose one cookie to be my favorite, it would be frosted sugar cookies. 

There is just something about a sugar cookie with frosting on it. The ones that I really love are the ones in unique shapes and decorated with many colors. A butterfly-shaped cookie just tastes so much better when it looks so pretty. Since I don't have the talent or patience to decorate cookies, I buy those at the bakery. 

My talent may not be in how the cookie looks but I do a great job with how the cookies taste. When I make cookies I like to make unique flavors for the cookie exchange that I attend and the one cookie that always gets the most attention is my Lemon Frosted Rosemary Holiday Sugar Cookies. 

People are always surprised at how good they taste as they would have never thought to add rosemary to a sugar cookie. Another secret ingredient that I use in cookies is black pepper. Black pepper adds a wonderful taste to gingerbread cookies.  Spices sure do add great flavor to other cookies, last year I made Holiday Cinnamon Spiced Sugar Cookies with pumpkin pie spice and my family loved them.

Lemon Frosted Rosemary Holiday Sugar Cookies are 

~ Sweet

~ Soft

~ Delicious

~ Perfect for Cookie Exchanges

~ Buttery

~ Unique in Flavor

~ Perfect for the Holidays

~ Can be Made Dairy-Free with Vegan Butter

Holiday Cinnamon Spice cookies ~ Keep reading for the recipe


So many cookies so little time to bake

 When I bake cookies there are a couple of ingredients that I always use and I will not compromise on them. I always use real butter as you can really taste the difference in cookies when they are made with margarine. Also, cookies made with real butter just cook better. They tend to not burn. Using silicone baking mats also helps cookies to not burn. 

 Another ingredient that I always use when making cookies is pure vanilla extract. The flavor of vanilla made from real vanilla beans is so much better than that of imitation vanilla which is made from chemicals or something else. If you want the taste of vanilla you have to use real vanilla beans. The vanilla that I love in all my baking is Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract. This Vanilla extract uses a unique proprietary slow, cold extraction process to gently draw out and preserve more than 300 delicate flavor compounds to give you the richest-tasting vanilla.

 Other real extract flavors that I keep on hand for holiday baking are pure peppermint extract and pure almond extract. Pure peppermint is great in peppermint mocha coffee drinks and candy cane bark. I will use pure almond extract in cakes and shortbread cookies. Nielsen-Massey makes the best flavor extracts as they use pure ingredients. I like it when they bundle their flavor extracts for the holidays as it makes it so easy to have the flavors on hand that I will be using. If you will be doing any baking for the holidays the Nielsen-Massey Holiday Flavors Bundle is a must-have product.

Check out some other cookie recipes that would be great for the holidays ~  Click on the yellow links for the recipes

~ The Best Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe

~ Holiday Pumpkin Pie Spiced Sugar Cookies

~ Dairy Free Soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

~ One Bowl Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies

~ No-Bake High Fiber Breakfast Granola Bars

~ Gluten Free Chocolate Mocha Protein Brownies

~ Dairy-Free Chocolate Dipped Salted Almond Butter Cookies

~ 4-Ingredient Mocha Coconut Breakfast Cookies

~ Keto Salted Caramel Chocolate Cookies

 ~ Dairy Free Apple Pie Cookies

~ NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE-DIPPED PEANUT BUTTER PROTEIN CANDY

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The Mess Of Christmas Cookies And Biz

Disclaimer: This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Biz Stain Fighter. All opinions are 100% mine.

My boys make a mess when decorating cookies

 Our favorite Christmas tradition is making cookies. My boys love when we make cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. They love to pull out all the cookie cutters and every color of sprinkles that we have in the pantry. I make the sugar cookie dough and roll it out. The boys then select their favorite Christmas cookie cutters and press them into the cookie dough. We are all covered in flour but the fun has only begun.

The decorating is the most fun

  My boys always have so much fun decorating the Christmas cookies. The youngest always spreads way too much frosting on his cookies for Santa and much of it ends up on his shirt. When my boys add the sprinkles to the cookies, I think most of the sprinkles end up on the floor. The older kids love using the red-hot candies on their cookies, so much that Santa has requested no more. We all agree that eating the holiday cookies are the best part of making cookies. Then all the kids select their favorite cookie to leave out on Christmas Eve for Santa. Santa sure does love cookies and milk!

Mom is left with the mess!

 Once the cookie decorating is done, I am left with the mess that is all over the kitchen. That mess always extends to the kid's clothes. I am not bothered by all the mess as this is always my favorite time of Christmas. My older kids have fond memories of baking cookies.

Biz to the rescue!

  This mom has the power of Biz to remove all those stains that my boys manage to get all over their clothes from decorating the cookies. This Stain Fighter removes the stains from the frosting that my youngest son wipes all over his shirt. I like that Biz has MORE STAIN FIGHTING INGREDIENTS than most laundry products. Different stains require different ingredients to eliminate them. Science shows that there is no one single ingredient that cleans everything well. I always reach for Biz Stain Remover for all the stains on my boy's clothes. I love that I can pretreat all laundry stains with one product. Biz is my go-to laundry product. It is also great to add to the whole wash and helps get out those stains that my boys forgot to tell me about.

MORE STAIN FIGHTING INGREDIENTS

Biz has all the stain fighting ingredients in one bottle


  I am not going to let stains ruin my fun during the holidays. I don't stress about all the mess that my boys get all over their clothes as they are decorating Christmas cookies. I relax and enjoy the holiday memories that I am making with my boys as all too soon they will grow up. I can't wait until my new granddaughter is old enough to make cookies with grandma. She can use all the frosting and sprinkles on her cookies as she wants as this grandma/mom has the stain fighting power of Biz Stain Lifter!

Give Christmas Cookies From A Mix A Great New Taste

Make cookie mixes exciting with your own special touches

I usually don't like baking cookies from mixes but I had some in the pantry that I bought from Christmas sales last year. When I do bake from mixes, I add my own touch to make them taste and look better. I am going to show you how to make new flavors and looks from a couple of cookie mixes by just adding one ingredient. 

Spicy Gingerbread Cookies

The cookie mix that I made into a different taste was a gingerbread cookie mix. The secret ingredient is black pepper. You might be thinking, black pepper in a cookie? Trust me on this one, you have to try it. Just add 1 teaspoon ground black pepper to a gingerbread cookie mix when you mix all the ingredients together. The black pepper brings out the ginger and tastes wonderful.

Rosemary Sugar Cookies

The next cookie mix is a sugar cookie mix. I added 1 tablespoon fresh Rosemary to the sugar cookie mix, if you don't have fresh you can use 1 teaspoon dried. The Rosemary gives a wonderful taste to the sugar cookies. Trust me again, you have to try it.

Chocolate Chip Muffin Trees

This cookie mix was a chocolate chip one. I baked the cookies in mini muffin tins. After making the dough, place 1-inch dough balls into grease mini muffin tins or in papers. Bake the cookies for 12 minutes at the same temperature on the package. Remove the papers after baking. I decorated the cookies with green frosting and Christmas sprinkles.

Sugar Cookie Tree

My older son got into the fun too! He took the sugar cookies that I made from the above mix and made a tree using green frosting and sprinkles.

Now you have no excuse not to bake cookies, as it is simple to make great cookies from a mix. 

Do you have any ingredients that you add to cookie mixes that makes them special?