Gluten Free Whipped Shortbread Cookies

GF Shortbread cookies

These buttery crisp gluten free shortbread are melt in your mouth goodness. They’re so easy to make that one shouldn’t have to go without this holiday season. These shortbread cookies store at room temperature in plastic-ware for several weeks and freeze beautifully.


Whipped Shortbread Cookies Recipe

YIELD: 30 cookies

1 cup (227g) unsalted butter

1/2 cup (110g) super fine sugar

1 cup cornstarch (190g) cornstarch, sifted

1 cup (160g) rice flour

silver dragees (optional)

Cream butter and sugar until combined.

Add cornstarch and rice flour.

Stir to combine then whip for 5 minutes.

Drop by the teaspoonful one inch apart onto a lined baking sheet.

Top with silver dragees as desired.

Bake in a 325°F preheated oven for 15-20 minutes.

Cool completely before handling.

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April Qureshi is a cookbook author, retired pastry chef and former bakery owner. April lives on the rugged west coast and is the mother of two beautiful children and wife to a fabulous husband. She is currently working on her second cookbook, More Kapusta or Cabbage, with her mother Jennie Choban. April wants to share with you her 20 years of baking and pastry arts experience to help you bake the best cakes, cookies, bread and pastries ever!

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