Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups white rice flour
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon gluten free vanilla, lemon, or almond flavoring
1/2 cup sugar
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Mix the first 5 ingredients in a bowl. Once this is mixed well, add the butter and mix together until ingredients become crumbly.
In a separate bowl combine the egg, vanilla and sugar and use a whisker to combine. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients. Mix it all, until it recedes from the sides. Shape the dough by making it a circle that is flat, then for about an hour, let it set in the refrigerator.
After you let the dough set in the refrigerator for an hour, put the dough on freezer paper that has flour (gluten free) sprinkled on it. If you choose to, you can substitute the flour for powdered sugar to give it an even better taste. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness then use a cookie cutter and cut out approximately 20 cookies.
Place cookies on a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake for 12 minutes. Remove from the oven when done and cool on a rack.
