Sunday, November 27, 2022

GF holiday baking with the best of the season

From Nicole at GFOAS. Great gluten free recipes that really work.


Hey e,

It's the Sunday after the U.S. Food Olympics (otherwise known as the Thanksgiving holiday), and I hope you're recovering well, having rested for a day at least?

There weren't any new recipes on the blog this week, because there is a time and a place for everything—and this past week was neither the time nor the place for a new recipe!

So, today, instead of recapping last week on the blog, we're looking forward to the warm, comforting cookies, cakes, and fritters in our near future. If it has cinnamon and nutmeg, count me in! Bonus points if you can decorate it!

I picked out a few of my favorites below, but of course the blog has hundreds of gf recipes for everything you can imagine. The gluten free holiday recipes are just one particularly lovely corner of the internet.

Cheers to a holiday season filled with good food and good company. And when we can't manage to have the very best company, at least we know that we can always make our favorite foods!

pile of soft gingerbread men cookies

These gluten free gingerbread men cookies are soft, chewy, and perfectly spiced for all your holiday cookie-baking needs. I love how easy they are to put together!

Who can resist the smell of warm cinnamon, ginger, and brown sugar drifting through the house? The moment they hit the oven, it will feel like a celebration.

As an added bonus, you can prep this dough ahead of time and leave it in the fridge to work with later. Let's make our lives just a little bit easier!

Apple fritter with glaze drizzle on brown paper

These perfect apple fritters are fried efficiently and quickly until they're crisp on the very outside and soft and tender inside—with apple pieces cooked to fork-tender perfection. No yeast needed!

All you need is the right mix of gluten free flours, baking powder, salt, a touch of sugar, buttermilk, an egg, and of course diced apples.

Fry them up, drizzle lightly with a cinnamon-sugar glaze or just toss them in cinnamon-sugar, and enjoy!

round sugar cookies with thick frosting and star sprinkles on wire rack

These gluten free cutout sugar cookies are seriously so easy to make from scratch. The recipe has very few ingredients, so it comes together very quickly.

The cookie dough can be made, rolled out, cut out and baked without any change in temperature (no chilling the cookie dough!) because the moisture balance is just right. As one commenter said, though, you have to "trust the process," follow the recipe closely, weigh your ingredients ... and prepared to be delighted!

There's just something about biting into that impossibly soft sugar cookie with the thick icing that says celebrate 🥳!!


On Gluten Free on a Shoestring, we make gluten-free food enjoyable & affordable. If they can make it with gluten, we can make it without.
That's a promise!

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