These Gluten Free Cut Out Sugar Cookies are a holiday must in our house — and honestly, they’re perfect for any celebration that calls for decorated cookies. The dough is soft, easy to roll, and holds its shape beautifully while baking, so your stars, trees, hearts, and gingerbread people come out clean and crisp every time. The cookies themselves are lightly sweet, buttery, and tender without being crumbly, making them ideal for decorating with royal icing or a simple glaze, or as linzer cookies.
This is the kind of gluten free recipe that proves you don’t need gluten to create beautiful, sturdy, bakery-quality cookies. Whether you’re filling tins for gifting or baking with the kids, these cut outs make the whole kitchen smell like a festive bakery.
What icing should I use?
Royal icing is the perfect finishing touch for these gluten free cut out sugar cookies. If you want crisp, detailed designs that really hold their shape — like lines, dots, snowflakes, or lettering — keep your icing on the thicker side. It will pipe cleanly and stay exactly where you put it. For that classic smooth, glossy sugar-cookie coating, simply thin the icing with a little water… I’m talking a drop at an time, until it reaches a pourable, “flooding” consistency. Outline the cookie first, then fill it in for a flawless bakery-style finish. Both versions dry beautifully and give your cookies that polished, festive look.
ingredients
- Room Temperature Butter
- Powdered Sugar
- Egg Yolks – they make the dough tender
- Not sure what to use with the left over egg whites? Make Meringue cookies!
- Salt
- Vanilla
- Gluten Free 1-1 Flour
- Almond Flour
- For the Royal Icing: meringue powder, water and food colouring
Tools
- Stand mixer
- Rolling Pin
- Baking Sheets
- Piping Bags with Tips
Storing
These cookies keep very well. I have baked off the cookies, let them cool and then froze them without decorating them to use later.
You can also, decorate them, and they will taste delicious for about a week. I have seen others freeze them after decorating them, but that is not something I have tried.
Gluten Free Cut Out Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 225 Grams Softened Butter
- 120 Grams Icing Sugar
- 2 Egg Yolks
- 1 Gram Salt (Omit if you are using salted butter)
- 1 Gram Vanilla
- 317 Grams Bob’s Red Mill 1-1 Gluten Free Flour
- 100 Grams Almond Flour
Royal Icing
- 30 Grams Meringue Powder
- 120 Grams Warm Water
- 520 Grams Icing Sugar
- Food Colouring
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy.225 Grams Softened Butter, 120 Grams Icing Sugar
- Add in the egg yolks and mix until combined.2 Egg Yolks
- Add in the rest of the ingredients. Mix until it no longer sticks to bowl.1 Gram Salt, 1 Gram Vanilla, 317 Grams Bob’s Red Mill 1-1 Gluten Free Flour, 100 Grams Almond Flour
- On a lightly floured surface, pour out the dough. Roll it out to about 1/4” thick. Cut out your cookies using cookie cutters. Move the cut cookie to a baking sheet on parchment paper. Once the tray is full, put it into the fridge to chill.
- Roll out the rest of the dough until you are finished.
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Place the cold trays into the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool on the tray for a couple of minutes before moving to a wire rack.
- Once they are fully cooled, make the royal icing.
- In a stand mixer bowl with a whisk, add in the meringue powder and warm water. Mix until foamy.30 Grams Meringue Powder, 120 Grams Warm Water
- Next add in the icing sugar. Whip until fluffy.520 Grams Icing Sugar
- If you have one batch of the same colour, I would dye it now. If not, separate it into bowls and dye each of them. If it is too thick, add a drop of water at a time. If it is too thin, add a little bit of icing sugar.Food Colouring
- Put the royal icing into piping bags with the tips of your choice and begin decorating. Enjoy!
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