Sugar Cookie Heaven!

As most of you know, its hard to find the perfect gluten-free, dairy-free cookie. It's even harder to find Niki's old favorite treat, sugar cookies. Unable to find the perfect recipe, she has tried to find ANYTHING that even tastes like sugar cookies: cake batter ices, sprinkles and melted marshmellows, etc. But the other day we FINALLY found the greatest gluten-free, dairy-free sugar cookies out there. The batter is even amazing! So follow these directions and you will have a tasty allergy free cookie!

Ingredients:
1 Package of the pure pantry organic sugar cookie (you can purchase these online at thepurepantry.com)
1 egg
About 2 1/2 tablespoons of butter- substitute (the recipe on the back calls for more but we think it tastes too buttery and not enough like a cookie)
           -- we use benecol lite because it is the most healthy and tasty brand
2 teaspoons vanilla extract 

1) Set the oven to 350 degrees.
2) Add all the ingredients together in a medium-size mixing bowl. It might be easier to blend the butter eggs and vanilla together as the recipe calls. You will get a better texture if you do that first and then add slowly to the mix. 

3) Slowly add water and batter to the mixture while blending with a hand mixer. We added water until it became almost like a cake batter. This came in handy when we made the cookie balls. It also helped the ingredients stick together and not fall apart. 

4) Place the mixture in a bowl in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Leaving it in for a closer to an hour will just help with the texture and the consistency. We left it in for about an hour and a half.

5) Take the batter out and place on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray. Place as shown below. The cookies do not expand that much, so making larger balls will be okay if you want larger cookies. (We had some extra batter left over so we placed a large ball of a cookie dough with sprinkles in a cake pan) 

6) Place the cookie sheet in the oven for about 15 minutes. Check to see if they are cooked and put in about 5 minutes more if they still need time.

(The one on the right has colored sprinkles! It was amazing and next time we are going to put them on all of the cookies!)

Enjoy this allergy free treat! And don't be scared to experiment.. adding small things like sprinkles only makes it better!

Love,
The Dishing Duo