Cookies are one of life’s great pleasures.  Going gluten-free shouldn’t change that, and you shouldn’t have to settle for overly sugared, overly fattening pre-packaged gluten-free cookies when you need to satisfy your sweet tooth.

I have found over years of reading gluten-free recipes and labels from pre-packaged gluten-free cookies, that they tend to be even higher in sugar and fat than their gluten-containing counterparts.  Now, no one ever said a cookie was supposed to be good for you, but it certainly need not be worse for you than a gluten cookie!  The primary reason for  higher fat and more sugared gluten-free cookies is because those ingredients are used to cover up bad or odd-tasting gluten-free flours (who wants to bite into a sugar cookie that tastes like bean flour?!).

I formulated my patent-pending flour to have no taste, so you’ll never need to compensate by adding extra sugar.  I also labored to create a flour that performs just like the store-bought flours we all grew up using; so you won’t need to add more butter than the original recipe calls for to help your gluten-free version keep its shape.  With that in mind, I give you 11 of my favorite cookie recipes that are no better or worse for your waistline than regular gluten-containing cookies!  Caution: these recipes make amazing cookies.  Be sure to have friends nearby to share them with, lest you eat them all yourself!