I don't know most yous all but nosotros certain convey been doing a lot of Christmas baking these days. The girls precisely beloved to curl out the dough too cutting out Christmas cookie shapes! The cookies are fun to expose to Christmas carolers too friends. Today I wanted to part i of my newest creations for yous to bask this vacation season.
Sort of similar a saccharide cookie, but alongside the add-on of a few warming, sweetness spices. I used my favorite cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon. The flavor reminds me of the crimson hot cinnamon candies that were a favorite of mine equally a child. I added nutmeg too cloves, too and thence a piffling freshly position down star anise. You tin mail away equally good honour the star anise inwards the mass spice department of your local co-op. To grind the anise, only take the seeds from the pod (the star) too grind inwards a java grinder or mortar too pestle (I used the later). For a to a greater extent than intense anise flavor grind the whole star (pod too seeds) inwards a java grinder. The odor is intoxicating too the flavor exotic. You tin mail away exercise it to brand your ain chai spice tea, or essay making a stove transcend potpourri alongside water, orangish peels, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, too star anise. Simmer on the stove during a vacation gathering or on Christmas level too bask its sweetness odor wafting throughout your home.
Serve these delightful piffling cookies alongside hot mulled cider on a chilly wintertime afternoon. You tin mail away brand a cookie glaze if yous want past times mixing powdered saccharide alongside a real pocket-sized sum of non-dairy milk or H2O too a dash of vanilla. I used palm shortening inwards these cookies but organic unsalted butter would equally good work. The flour I purchase from Authentic Foods in California. If yous alive on the due east coast yous may desire to social club it from the Gluten Free Mall.
Christmas Spice Cookies
1 loving cup superfine brownish rice flour
3/4 loving cup superfine sweetness rice flour
1/2 loving cup tapioca flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon bounding main salt
4 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon position down nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon position down cloves
1/2 teaspoon position down star anise
1 loving cup organic palm shortening or unsalted butter
1 loving cup maple saccharide or kokosnoot sugar
1/4 loving cup applesauce
1/4 loving cup applesauce
2 teaspoons vanilla
Place the dry out ingredients into a bowl (rice flour through position down star anise). Whisk together.
In a large bowl, cream the shortening too saccharide together alongside an electrical mixer. Add the applesauce too vanilla too trounce most xxx to a greater extent than seconds.
Add the dry out ingredients to the moisture too trounce until thoroughly incorporated. Chill dough inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree i hour.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a baking sheet. Sprinkle a clean, apartment surface alongside a piffling iv too curl out your dough until most 1/8 -inch of thickness.
Cut out alongside your favorite cookie cutter shapes. Place cookies onto prepared baking canvas too bake for 12 to xv minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Repeat this procedure alongside the remaining dough.
Enjoy cookies alongside a loving cup of freshly mulled hot cider. If yous don't convey whatsoever apple tree cider on manus too thence essay using a container of 
organic apple tree juice. You know the sort inwards the large drinking glass jars, the not-from-concentrate-type flora at your local wellness nutrient shop or co-op. Basically yous simmer apple tree cider on the stove alongside cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, sliced fresh ginger, too a few orangish slices for most xxx to lx minutes. Strain too enjoy! The girls exercise the cinnamon sticks equally straws to suck the warm cider up. Mmm.
organic apple tree juice. You know the sort inwards the large drinking glass jars, the not-from-concentrate-type flora at your local wellness nutrient shop or co-op. Basically yous simmer apple tree cider on the stove alongside cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, sliced fresh ginger, too a few orangish slices for most xxx to lx minutes. Strain too enjoy! The girls exercise the cinnamon sticks equally straws to suck the warm cider up. Mmm.