GLUTEN FREE CHRISTMAS COOKIES

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GLUTEN FREE CHRISTMAS COOKIES

# Edited: This recipe was featured at Tuesday Tutorial on 5th Jan 2016, check here.

#Edited- This recipe was featured at hearth and Soul blog hop on 4th Jan 2016, Check here.

#Edited- This recipe was featured at Real Food Friday blog hop on 31 st December. Check here
http://organic4greenlivings.com/real-food-fridays-120-healthy-living-for-the-new-year/

Wishing everyone a Happy, Healthy and Safe Christmas

Christmas is around the corner and everybody is busy in shopping, buying gifts for families and planning to bake some cakes and cookies. Last year was the first year I shared my cookie recipe with the other bloggers and I was amazed to see hundreds of varieties of cakes and cookies that other bloggers had baked.

This is my daughter's recipe, and I am very happy and proud to share my daughter's recipe on my blog.

This is obvious that we learn so much from our parents, but it is possible the other way around also. Like in my case, I am learning so many things from my daughter; I feel it is never late to learn anything from anybody.

I am a proud mother of a learned daughter whose knowledge, in many areas, is much more than mine. This is the 21^st century where the young generations are open minded, ready to accept challenges in life and are more exposed to technological advancements. We should be proud of our children and all their achievements.

I remember one funny incidence when my daughter was attending her primary (elementary) school, one day, and I went to pick her up from school. She was sitting in a waiting area with her friends, when I reached there, one of her friends told her, “Oh, your mom looks exactly like you.” I laughed at that innocent comment by her friend.

I had heard from many people about my daughter’s resemblance to me, but this was the first time I heard someone say I looked like my daughter, haha!

But this is true that as we age our identity also changes based on our relationship with other family members, like someone's wife and then someone's mom etc. When I was young, I introduced myself with my name, but later it happened with me many times, that in front of my children's friends, I introduced myself as I am the mother of RG or I am the mother of HG (together with my name). Only yesterday I phoned some friend in my neighbourhood to check my grandson, who went for a playdate with his friend, then I introduced myself on the phone to that lady, and said: “I am D's grandmother, just checking if he is doing fine”.

Coming to the recipe, this is a gluten free recipe in which I have used cream of rice. I know this might be a rare ingredient but you will definitely find it in an Indian grocery store, sometimes labelled as ‘rice semolina’ or ‘rice rawa’. I’ve always used coconut flour which I found at the Canadian store ‘Bulk Barn’, I bought it and thought I will use it in some recipe.

RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup rice rawa/rice semolina
• 1 cup coconut flour
• ½ cup chickpea flour/besan
• 1 cup sugar/brown sugar
• ½ tsp cardamom powder/cinnamon powder (whichever you prefer)
• 1and ½ cup butter softened/ ghee
• 2 tbs cashew nuts for decoration. 

METHOD

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees C.
• Combine all the ingredients with 1 cup butter, keep the ½ cup and add a bit by bit, until it all comes together.
• When combined, shape into a log shape and keep into the fridge to solidify a little.
• After 10-15 minutes, the mixture will be cooler and much easier to shape.
• Shape into small cookie and place on a cookie tray a ½ inch apart, decorate on top with half cashew.
• Bake in the oven for 10-15 mins until golden on the edges. Take them out and rest them on a cooling rack.

I am sending this recipe as my blog post entry for What"d you do this weekend, and with Hearth and soul blog hop, and with Cook blog share,, and with Fiesta Friday and Real Food Friday, and with Meatless Monday and Tuesday Tutorial, and with Tasty Tuesday,, and with Way wow community, and with Full plate Thursday, and with Healthy living link party and with Food and Fitness Friday, and with My two fav things on Thursday, and yum yum link party,