Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies Made With Xylitol

I have recently changed eating habits to mainly a paleo/primal diet. I cheat a few times a week with gluten-free grains and oats. It has been going really well and I love the way I feel! Because I have been partially diary-free for the past six months and have eaten gluten free in the past this really wasn't a hard change for me. However, after a week of eating meats, veggies, fruits, nuts, and seeds only I was really wanting some sugar cookies. I really missed the sweet breads. So I start searching online to make some sugar cookies!


I needed the cookies to be dairy-free. That meant no butter! How was I going to make sugar cookies with no butter? I discovered that I can can replace butter with oils in cookies. I found some people replace the butter with Canola Oil or Palm Shortening. I chose to replace the butter with Coconut Oil. Some recipes call for milk, however this recipe does not.

I also needed the cookies to be gluten-free. I had used Pamela's Gluten-Free Flour before, but couldn't find any in the stores in my area. I did find Bob's Red Mill All Purpose Gluten-Free Flour though and it worked great with these cookies.

Finally, I can not eat refined sugars. I chose to replace my table sugar with Xylitol. I love Xylitol. It taste similar to sugar, except better. It is just as sweet as sugar, but the taste is more defined. Also, there is no bitter after-taste like with refined sugar and its consistency is similar to table sugar. Xylitol has about 40% fewer calories and 75% fewer carbohydrates than sugar. It also fights tooth-decay and is great for diabetics. My favorite thing about this product though is that it is natural. It is found in fibrous plants and vegetables and even in our bodies. So, a couple weeks ago we started using Xylitol. I found it online and in our health food store.

So saying all this, here is the recipe I made for our Sugar Cookies. I let my extended family try them and they loved them as well. Hope you enjoy!

Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies Made With Xylitol

Dry Ingredients:

Baking Powder 2 Teaspoons

Salt 1/2 Teaspoon

Gluten-Free All Purpose Flour 2 cups

Xylitol 3/4 cup

Wet Ingredients:

Vanilla 2 Teaspoons

Water 2 Teaspoons

Eggs 2

Coconut Oil 2/3 Cup

Directions:

First mix the dry ingredients in a bowl. Then make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients. Next add the wet ingredients in the well. Mix the wet ingredients in the well. Then mix the dry and wet ingredient together thoroughly. Drop teaspoon size cookie dough on a greased cookie sheet. Flatten the tops of the cookies if desired. Cook for 6-10 minutes on 400 degree Fahrenheit.