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Title: Gluten Free Christmas Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 20 Cookies

4 1/2 oz Unsalted butter (125 g);
- at room temperature
4 1/2 oz Caster sugar (125 g)
1/2 Unwaxed lemon; zest only
1 Free-range egg;
Lightly beaten
1 ts Vanilla extract
7 oz Gluten free plain flour
- (200 g); plus extra for
- rolling
1 1/2 oz Ground almonds (40 g)
1/2 ts Xanthan gum
1 pn Salt
Icing sugar; for dusting

Preparation time: 1 hours
Cooking time: 30 minutes

Looking for a great gluten-free cookie? Get yourself some star
cutters in assorted sizes to make pretty Christmas cookies.
Cream together the softened butter and caster sugar in a bowl until
pale and light. Add the lemon zest and mix again.

Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula, add the
beaten egg and vanilla and mix again until thoroughly combined.

Add the gluten-free flour, ground almonds, xanthan gum, and salt, and
mix until smooth. Bring the dough together into a neat ball using
your hands, flatten into a disc, wrap in cling film and chill in the
fridge for 1 hour.

Cover two baking trays with baking paper and lightly dust the work
surface with gluten-free flour.

Roll the dough out to a thickness of 2 to 3 mm (1/8") and, using the
largest cutter stamp, cut out as many shapes from the dough as you
can.

Arrange the cookies on the prepared baking trays and, using the
smaller cutter, stamp out smaller stars from the middle of each
cookie. Gather the dough off-cuts into a ball and re-roll to make
more shapes.

Chill the cookies in the fridge for 30 minutes while you preheat
the oven to 170?C/150?C Fan/Gas 3/340?F.

Bake on the middle shelf for about 10 minutes, or until the edge of
each cookie is lightly golden-brown. Leave to cool on the baking
tray for about 2 to 3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to
cool completely.

Dust with icing sugar before serving.

Recipe by Annie Rigg

Recipe FROM:
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/gluten-free_cookies_64138>

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