Gluten-Free Thumbprint Cookies

Revealed: Dec 9, 2022 · by Audrey

A simple recipe for gluten-free thumbprint cookies. A tender gluten-free sugar cookie with a jam filling. The recipe additionally features a how-to video!

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These gluten-free thumbprint cookies are a traditional vacation cookie. These tender and candy cookies can simply personalized along with your alternative of jam, chocolate, or your favourite filling.

You possibly can see simply how straightforward these gluten-free thumbprint cookies are to make within the detailed recipe step pictures or the recipe video.

Components In Gluten-Free Thumbprint Cookies

Unsalted Butter: These cookies are made with softened unsalted butter. The butter brings each taste and texture to the recipe. For dairy-free butter use Good Stability butter or your favourite vegan butter.
Granulated and Brown Sugar: Each sugars not solely sweetens the cookies however helps give the cookies a softer texture.
Pure Vanilla Extract and Salt: These elements are purely for taste.
Egg Yolk: It enriches the cookie dough with additional fats and protein. The additional fats with enrich the flavour and texture of the cookie and the protein helps with the gluten-free flour to imitate the feel of conventional flour.
Gluten-Free Flour With Xanthan Gum: The gluten-free flour is the bottom of the cookies.

How To Make Gluten-Free Thumbprint Cookies

Preheat oven to 375°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a big bowl, beat the butter with an electrical mixer till creamy.
Add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat till the elements are nicely mixed. (photograph 1)
Add the egg yolk, pure vanilla extract, and salt and beat till the elements are nicely mixed.
Add the gluten-free flour and blend till utterly mixed. Often scrape the edges and backside of the bowl. The dough will appear dry and crumbly, however it is going to come collectively. (photograph 2)
Scoop cookie dough into 1 ½ tablespoon-sized balls utilizing a greased cookie scoop. Roll the cookie dough in a spherical ball. (photograph 3 & 4)
Roll the cookie ball right into a small bowl with the ⅓ cup of granulated sugar and place on the ready baking sheet. Place the cookie dough balls about 2-inches aside.
Use your thumb or the again of a rounded teaspoon to softly press an indent within the middle of the cookie dough. (photograph 5)
Place the jam in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for about 5-10 seconds, or till jam not agency and it’s straightforward to stir. Stir the jam till it’s clean.
Spoon the heated jam into every thumbprint, filling every indent to the brim. (photograph 6)
Bake on the middle rack for 12-14 minutes or till edges of the cookies are turning mild golden brown.
Permit cookies to chill utterly on baking sheet.
Retailer leftovers in an air-tight container.

Ideas For Making The Greatest Gluten-Free Thumbprint Cookies

Bake the cookies on the center rack of your oven and just one cookie sheet at a time for even baking.
Be certain to warmth up the jam and add the jam to the cookies earlier than baking the cookies.
To forestall the dough from cracking, roll the balls till they’re actually clean and there aren’t any traces or cracks within the dough.
Don’t place the second spherical of cookie dough balls on a heat baking sheet. Earlier than putting your subsequent batch of cookie dough on the baking sheet, ensure that it has cooled utterly. Not doing so could make your cookies unfold.

Can I Make the Gluten Free Cookie Dough In Advance?

Sure, it’s straightforward to make this gluten-free cookie dough forward of time. Cowl the dough with plastic wrap and maintain refrigerated for as much as at some point.

Gluten-Free Flour

This gluten-free thumbprint cookie recipe was developed with Pillsbury gluten-free flour. It’s a cup-for-cup all-purpose gluten-free rice flour mix and already has the xanthan gum and starches included.

Most gluten-free all-purpose flour blends have starches and xanthan gum already in them. The xanthan gum helps substitute the elasticity and texture of gluten.

So ensure that to examine the elements of your gluten-free flour in order to not add any additional xanthan gum to your flour if it already consists of it. In the event you do, you’ll get gummy cookies!

My favourite gluten-free flour is Pillsbury gluten-free. Not all gluten-free flours are created equal. It’s possible you’ll expertise completely different baking outcomes relying on the gluten-free flour mix you select.

This gluten-free cookie recipe is not going to with not work with almond, oat, or coconut flour.

Tip For Measuring Gluten-Free Flour

It’s tremendous necessary to make use of a measuring cup made for dry elements (not a Pyrex liquid measuring cup) to measure gluten-free flour. I measure the gluten-free flour with the “spoon & degree” technique.

I exploit a big spoon to scoop the flour into the measuring cup. Then I exploit the again of a knife to degree off the highest of the measuring cup.
Please don’t scoop the flour immediately out of the bag along with your measuring cup. In the event you do, you possibly can find yourself with extra flour than is named for within the recipe.

Components Substitutions For Gluten-Free Thumbprint Cookies

I’ve examined this gluten-free thumbprint cookie recipe with dairy-free ingredient substitutions. For the dairy-free butter use Good Stability butter.

Simple Thumbprint Gluten-Free Cookies

This gluten-free thumbprint cookie recipe is made with a couple of easy elements and bake in simply 11 minutes. They’re a prefect addition to your vacation cookie tray!

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