Tastiest Snickerdoodles EVAH!

Do you ever have one of those nights were you're like "OMG IF I DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING SUGARY AND AWESOME I AM GOING TO STAB SOMEONE IN THE FACE!?" Well, I do. Frequently. And it often leads to conversations like this:

Me: I wanna milkshake.
Dave: You can't have that.
Me: I wanna cookie.
Dave: Becca-cookie?
Me: COOOOKIE. *stabbity look*
Dave: Let's get you some cookies.

And so, lacking all the crazy ingredients that many GF / CF cookbooks request I went to the internet and did a quick google search for some 'real' cookie recipes. Now, I have had a long standing love of The Joy of Cooking for a long time and they have a companion book called The Joy of Baking. As luck would have it, they also have websites! Below I've included the (altered) recipe that makes this Becca-friendly. And, hopefully, friendly to you as well.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sorghum flour
• 1 cup white rice flour
• 1/2 cup potato starch (you may also use tapioca starch as a sub if you have that instead)
• 1 tsp xanthan gum
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 cup olive oil (or oil of choice)**
• 1 1/2 cup white grandulated sugar
• 2 eggs worth of Energy Egg Replacer
• 1 tsp Vanilla

Coating

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon
  

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Combine your dry ingredients and go ahead and stir them until combined well. Then add all of your wet ingredients, but make sure you leave your oil until very last.

**Add oil slowly waiting to see the consistancy of the dough. You want to make sure that it isn't too dry or too wet. Trust your feelings, young padawan.

Roll into small balls and place on parchment lined baking sheet. Use a fork to make criss-cross hash marks on the top of the cookies and to squish them down gently. If they are moist enough then they will not crumble upon smushing.

Sprinkle cookies with cinnamon/sugar mixture and bake for 8 - 10 minutes. You're looking for the edges to be lightly brown but not burnt looking. If you see them sizzling in the oven, it's okay. They're supposed to do that.

Dave's seal of approval: "When you open the oven it smells like a carnival!"