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 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. Here’s one of my favorites, for a delicious gluten free oatmeal cookie.

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 (or other dried fruit)

Start by preheating your oven to 350F. Soften the butter on the counter so it will be easier to work with. 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. Give those dry ingredients a good stir, then work it into the egg mixture. Last but not least stir in the oats and raisins until they are well combined.

Line some cookie sheets with parchment paper and drop the cookie batter on, about one tablespoon at a time. You can either use two soup spoons for this or a melon baler.

The cookies will need to bake for about 12 minutes. They will be golden brown when they are done. Allow them to cool first directly on the baking sheet and then on a rack. Store the finished cookies in a zip-lock bag.

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 always a good 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 read about another delicious 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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