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Men, women and children from all of the country are making the switch to gluten-free eating. Some of them are diagnosed with celiac disease; some have issues with ADD etc. At first it looks like you can no longer enjoy some of your favorite comfort foods like paste, pizza and cookies. We’ve come a long way since the early days of living gluten free. There are now hundreds of delicious products and thousands of gluten-free recipes out there that allow you to enjoy all your favorite foods – just in a slightly modified way. This gluten free oatmeal cookie recipe is one of my personal favorites.

Gluten Free Oatmeal Cookies

* 1/2 cup butter
* 1/2 cup brown sugar
* 1/4 cup plain sugar
* 1/2 tsp vanilla
* 3/4 cups gluten-free flour
* 1/2 tsp baking soda
* dash of salt
* 1/2 tsp cinnamon
* 1 large egg
* 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
* 1 1/2 cups gluten free oats
* 1/2 cup raisins (or other dried fruit)

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Set out the butter or margarine so it has a chance to soften. Cream the butter and both the brown and regular sugar with a hand mixer or use your kitchen mixer. Add the vanilla and the egg next and blend again until you have a creamy light yellow colored mixture.

Get out a bowl and add the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, xanthan gum and salt. Stir it together until well combined, then work the flour mixture into the butter and egg one. Finish the batter by adding the oats and raisins and mixing everything together.

Scoop one tablespoon of batter onto a greased baking sheet per cookie. Keep working until you have your cookie sheet filled up. You can either use two soup spoons for this or a melon baler.

Bake the cookies for 10 to 12 minutes. Take them out when they start to turn golden brown. Allow them to cool first directly on the baking sheet and then on a rack. Keep them in an airtight tin if there are any leftover.

This recipe yields two dozen oatmeal cookies.

If you don’t like making a recipe like this from scratch, you can also find delicious cookie mixes in all sorts of different flavors (including peanut butter, chocolate chip and of course oatmeal) at your local health food store and online. They are the perfect alternative. You can even find some gluten-free cookies, already baked and everything that taste pretty good.

In other words, there is no reason to give up delicious baked goods when you are living gluten free.

And now, I would like to invite you to take a look at another yummy and healthy recipe. This one is for quinoa muffins which you can make gluten-free by baking them with gluten-free flour. And here are more quinoa recipes for you.

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