Each year thousands make a major lifestyle change and start to eat gluten-free. The reasons why vary. Some think it’s a healthier way to live while it becomes a necessity for others who have been diagnosed with celiac disease. 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 gluten free living. There are now thousands of products and many thousand gluten-free recipes out there for you to enjoy. Take this gluten free oatmeal cookie recipe for example.

Gluten Free Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

* 1/2 cup butter or margarine
* 1/2 cup light-brown sugar
* 1/4 cup white sugar
* 1/2 tsp vanilla
* 3/4 cups gluten free flour
* 1/2 tsp baking soda
* dash of table salt
* 1/2 tsp cinnamon
* 1 large egg
* 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
* 1 1/2 cups gluten free oats
* 1/2 cup raisins (optional)

Start by preheating your oven to 350F. 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.

Sift together the flour, soda, salt, cinnamon and gum in another bowl. 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.

Get a large cookies sheet and drop the cookies on, using approximately one tbsp of batter for each. I like to work with two large spoons to do this, but a melon scooper or small ice cream scooper work as well.

You should bake these oatmeal cookies a good ten minutes. When they look like finished cookies, they are done. Let the cookies cool for a good five minutes on the sheet, then move them to a wire rack. Keep them in an airtight tin if there are any leftover.

This recipe yields two dozen oatmeal cookies.

Of course you don’t have to bake all your cookies and other gluten-free treats from scratch. You can get all kinds of baking mixes and even finished gluten free products at local grocery stores and online at websites that specialize in gluten-free products. They are a great 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.

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

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