Recipes
Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies (gluten free, egg free, dairy free, vegan)
By: Nancy
The best GF cookie recipe I have ever tried was sent long ago on Living Without's weekly recipe email (www.livingwithout.com) and I sent a batch to my vegan/GF brother for Christmas and made some for our family. Now he asks for them for his birthday and Christmas every year. Time to make more. After you make them, you can post your “Thank you” below. Here it is:
Details
Servings: 24 servings
Gluten-Free Cookie Flour Blend (makes 6 cups)- 4 cups brown rice flour (I've used white and it's just as good)
- 1 1/3 cups potato starch (not potato flour)
- 2/3 cup tapioca flour/starch
Ingredients- 1 1/4 cups Gluten-Free Cookie Flour Blend
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1/3 cup plain-flavored rice milk
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips**
- 1 1/4 cups Gluten-Free Cookie Flour Blend
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1/3 cup plain-flavored rice milk
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips**
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Combine flour mix above (These cookies also work well with Jules Gluten Free Flour Mix), cocoa powder, xanthan gum, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt. Mix thoroughly, being sure to work out any lumps of cocoa powder.
- Using an electric mixer set on medium speed, thoroughly combine canola oil and rice milk. Add vanilla extract and sugar. Mix well.
- Add the dry ingredients to wet and mix on low speed, scraping sides of bowl.
- Scoop out dough by heaping teaspoonfuls and place on prepared cookie sheets, 12 per sheet. Wet hands with a little water and roll dough into balls.
- Bake in preheated oven on center rack for 5 minutes.
- Put chocolate chips in a microwave-safe dish and melt. This will take about a minute; check chips every 15 seconds and stir. Once chips are melted, set them aside.
- Remove cookies from oven. Wet your thumb slightly with cool water and, working quickly, make thumbprint marks in the center of each cookie. Fill thumbprints with ! teaspoon melted chocolate.
- Return cookies to oven and bake an additional 5 minutes.
- Let cookies cool 5 minutes on cookie sheets before transferring to a wire rack.
Wow. So the dough looked really oily and I was skeptical they would turn out, but they were awesome! I would agree, the best GF cookie I have made from scratch. My whole family ate them! Since my son is allergic to 16 foods, he is super restricted in his diet. This recipe not only worked, it earned 5 stars!
Some comments on this from our Facebook page -
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Katie Edmunds Monk: is there a sugar free mod for this recipe??
Gluten Freeville: I was wondering if it may work with splenda or stevia, but then you'd have to get some sugar free chocolate to melt for the middle as well. I use Enjoy Life chips, which are dairy free, but not sugar free. ~nancy
BreeAnn Scharnhorst: these look tasty!
Gypsy Heilman: finally a cookie my son can eat. going to make these soon. thanks!!
Tami Cravens-Kwiatt: In our 3 generation family there are 7 different food allergies and NONE of those things are in this cookie! Will be giving this one a test run because I have 2 family reunions in the next month.
Gluten Freeville: Oh wow! Hope you like them as much as we do, Tami! We were just wishing I had doubled the batch since we're giving them away :( ~nancy
Phoenix Coach Deborah Peters: Those look wonderful! I will try as soon as I'm done detoxing, lol
Kimberly Bell: OOHH I'm drooling!! can't wait to try these. Thank you soooo much!
These were fabulous! Chocolate on chocolate-yum! I used white rice flour, and instead of rice milk, I used SILK vanilla coffee creamer. They were so easy!
I am printing this to try soon with my kids! Totally minor item: there is a typo in the title "guten". Thanks for posting the recipe! I'm always on the lookout for good GFCF things to try.
I found this recipe through a link at Gluten Freeville on facebook. We are about to begin a six week elimination diet with our youngest daughter who is allergic to about 20 things. I'm panicking! She is nine years old and I'm in search of anything and everything to keep her life somewhat normal but get her feeling better. I think this recipe is going to be great comfort food. I know you asked for "thank yous" after we had made them but you are getting mine now. Thank you for posting and I'm bookmarking in hopes I'll make it back for a real review of the cookies.