The Best Gluten free Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the recipe that I make the most often. I keep them in the freezer so my hubby can have them for snacks etc. They are a favorite to everyone in our family.

The Best Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 and 1/2 cups of *rice flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup coconut
1 cup chocolate chips

In large mixing bowl, combine canola oil, white sugar, brown sugar, egg and vanilla. Beat with mixer. Now add salt, baking soda and mix again. Add the coconut and chocolate chips and the rice flour. Mix with large wooden spoon as you add these ingredients. Set aside in a cool place for 2 hours.
Bake in greased pan in 325F oven for 6-8 minutes until lightly golden.
Cool and enjoy! Store in freezer.
* Rice flour - I grind my own rice flour but I am sure you could also purchase it at a health food store.

Check my archives for my other posts on gluten free eating:
http://sharingthefaith-northernsparrow.blogspot.ca/2012/07/gluten-free-bakingdinner-buns.html

http://sharingthefaith-northernsparrow.blogspot.ca/2012/07/homemade-chocolate-chip-cookies-gluten.html

http://sharingthefaith-northernsparrow.blogspot.ca/2012/05/burdens-to-bearallergies.html

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies - Gluten Free

Colossians 3:23-24 -   And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;  Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

For those who read my blog, you will know that my husband is on a gluten free diet due to Celiac disease. You will find the post in my archives entitled "Burdens to bear...allergies"  in archives in the month of May. I always keep cookies in the freezer for him, so since his cookie jar is mostly empty now, I am baking cookies for him today. I thought I would post the recipe that I used today, and a picture so you can get an idea of what the cookies are like. I buy regular white rice and grind it to flour in my electric flour mill so that is the type of flour that I used in the cookies today.

                    
 Here is a picture of my  gluten free cookies I baked today.


Here is the recipe I used today:

Chocolate Chip Cookies ( make sure all your ingredients are gluten free)

Beat together in large mixing bowl:
1 and 1/2 cups vegetable oil ( I use canola oil )
1 and 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1 cup white granulated sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Now add:
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup unsweetened coconut
1 and 1/2 cups gluten free oatmeal ( make sure the oatmeal is gluten free as not all oatmeal is safe )
2 cups chocolate chips
Stir together well.

Now add approximately 3 cups rice flour ( ground from white rice ) and stir well.  The cookie batter should be very stiff.  (If you are planning on using other types of rice flour, adjust the amount of flour required to make a stiff cookie batter).
Set the cookie batter in a cool place to rest ( not in the fridge) for 3 hours.

Preheat oven to 325 F. Drop dough by rounded teaspoon ful onto greased baking sheet.  Flatten a little bit with hand. Bake the cookies for 7 minutes or till golden brown. Remove from pan, cool and enjoy!

Store the cookies in an airtight container such as a plastic or rubbermaid tub in the freezer.