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Ingredients:
For the cookies:
- 2 cups brown rice flour, plus more for rolling out dough
- 1 and one-half cup sweet rice flour
- 1 cup potato starch
- 1 tablespoon xanthan gum
- 1 and one-half tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
For the Royal icing:
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 teaspoon powdered egg whites
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons water
Directions:
For the cookies:
1. Combine the rice flours, potato starch, xanthan gum, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream the sugars, shortening and butter until fluffy on medium speed. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and then vanilla.
2. Gradually add the flour mixture until combined.
3. Divide dough into 2 balls, wrap in plastic and chill for at least an hour.
4. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
5. Roll dough out to one-fourth inch thickness on a work surface dusted with brown rice flour. Cut out with cookie cutters. Place on cookie sheets, 1 inch apart. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes until just golden. Transfer cookies to cooling rack and let cool completely.
Decorate with royal icing.
For the Royal icing:
1. Combine all ingredients until blended. Add more water or confectioners’ sugar until tick and stiff.
2. Divide icing into small cups or bowls and color with food coloring if desired. Use a new (and clean) small paintbrush to apply icing to cookies. You can wash the brushes in between colors.
3. Add decorating sugars, nuts or other items to the cookie while icing is still wet.
4. After decorating cookies, let the icing dry before storing them in an airtight container in a single layer. Use waxed paper to separate layers.
Servings: Makes about 20 large cut-out cookies.
Variations:
Ornaments:You can make “stained glass” ornaments to hang from your tree. Crush Lifesavers or other hard candies with a mortar and pestle. Cut out small shapes in the cookie. Place on baking sheet and fill cutout shapes with crushed candies. Bake cookies as described above. Allow cookies to cool slightly on baking sheet before moving to cooling rack. Decorate cookie with additional frosting if desired.
Gluten-free am Thumbprints: Shape the dough into 1-inch balls. Press each ball with your thumb to make an indentation. Fill with your favorite fruit jam then bake. To shape the cookies, take a slightly bigger ball of dough and press flat into a 1-inch cookie cutter. Push through the cutter to remove. Make indentation with thumb and fill with jam and bake.
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