Gluten-free Invincible Star Cookies!

Ok, so this was a pretty easy thing to make. I whipped them up fairly quickly for something I made from scratch. I followed the ingredients from this website www.livingwithout.com/ and altered it with a few substitutions as I didn't have all these things on hand. The alternate recipe is posted here:

1½ cups confectioner’s (or icing) sugar
1 cup of margarine (or for those who want to make it more vegan friendly you can use 1/2 cup apple sauce, ( was gonna try it but mine was too old, so I had to toss it))
1 egg (or 1 teaspoons ground flax seed mixed with 3 tablespoons of water (I used this substitute, as I'm not an egg fan))
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2½ cups all-purpose flour mix
½ teaspoon xanthan gum
3½ teaspoons baking powder

A lot of the ingredients I used were organic like the icing sugar, the flax seed, the vanilla extract, and the baking powder. Now, most of the directions on the website on how to make the cookies I followed www.livingwithout.com/ though to make the cookies a lot more yellow like the invincible stars in Mario I added a lot of yellow food colouring to the wet ingredients as I was mixing it. Don't worry, it was all natural food colouring (from India Tree) If you like you can make yellow icing, but I wanted mine to be pretty simple and not too sweet.

Then, after I made the dough, I made it into a ball and put it in the freezer for about 20 minutes. Then I cleaned up, took out the ball and rolled it out between two sheets of parchment paper. I just cut them out using different sizes of star cookie cutters I had, and put them on a few parchment-lined cookie trays and popped them in the oven for 10 min. when it was preheated to 350 degrees.

Once they cooled down a bit. I heated up some dark chocolate chips in a little glass bowl in the microwave at 15 second intervals, stirring as I went until the chocolate was all melted. Then I spooned the chocolate into a ziploc bag and cut a tiny hole at the tip to pipe on some eyes and voila! They're done!

Perfect for any time of year really, but I wanted to make something simple, nerdy, cute, and stars are kinda a Christmas thing, seeing as it's getting so close to that time of year. I made it for a few friends and one of the people coming over had a gluten allergy. I tried to make these for her, but they ended up cancelling, due to the crummy weather outside. I don't blame them, it's awful out. Anyway, if you have the ingredients you can make these yourself, or you may even try other recipes like gluten-free rice krispy treats made into stars, and so on. You can do so much with star cookie cutters! Have fun!

You can see the flax seed in these guys. They don't really taste like anything really once they're baked. You can normally smell it or taste it in the wet batter though. I just like them as a healthy alternative to eggs.

If you're new to baking gluten-free stuff, remember this stuff can crumble and fall apart easily, they're really soft when they first come out of the oven. So let them cool a bit before transferring them over somewhere else to cool.