Gluten-Free Cookie Baking Tips + Recipes

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September 14, 2025

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Gluten free cookie baking is a rewarding experience. Thankfully, it can be easy as well. Try your hand it whether you are newly gluten-free or baking for someone else these tips and recipes are sure to inspire.

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Choosing A Gluten Free Flour

Gluten free flours have come a long way in recent years. Thankfully we no longer need to figure out how to keep gluten free cookies from falling apart. There are a number of wonderful blends on the market. Experiment to find the one you like the best.

Here at Rootsy, we love Bob’s Red Mill 1-to-1 Gluten Free Blend. We’ve experimented with it in a number of recipes and have found that it is indeed 1-to-1 for regular flour in all the cookies, cakes, and muffins we’ve tried.

These are non-GMO flour blends that can be used cup-for-cup like regular flour which makes using family favorite recipes a breeze and also makes transitioning from whole wheat and gluten flour cooking and baking to gluten-free so much easier and less stressful for beginners.

When using a gluten-free flour blend that you can use cup-for-cup like regular flour, you will not need to make any adjustments to your current favorite cookie, cake or dessert recipes.

Conversion for Coconut Flour

Want to skip the blend? Coconut flour can often be used with some converting:

In baked goods, you generally want to substitute 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup coconut flour for 1 cup grain-based flour. You will also need to increase the number of eggs. In general, for every one cup of coconut flour you use, you will need to use six beaten eggs in your recipe in addition to approximately one cup of liquid such as coconut milk.

Gluten free cookies on a plate and in a basket in front of a copper cookie jar.
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A stack of three gluten-free chocolate chip cookies on a white plate sits on a wooden table. Behind it, a blue speckled cup filled with coffee is placed on a colorful patterned napkin.
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
Crunchy gluten free chocolate chip cookies are to sure delight everyone with the classic dessert perfect for after dinner and tucking into lunch boxes.
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A plate of gluten-free sour cream cookies, some topped with chocolate and some plain, rests on a floral-patterned tablecloth. A woven basket is in the background.
Gluten Free Sour Cream Cookies
Soft and fluffy gluten free sour cream cookies are a flavorful and simple dessert perfect for holiday buffets and weeknight desserts.
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A stack of three flourless peanut butter cookies sits on a white plate, next to a glass of milk on a wooden table.
Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
Flourless peanut butter cookies are delicious and quick to whip up making them the perfect after work sweet treat.
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A white plate with three lemon cookies sits on a wooden surface. Two whole lemons are in the background.
homespunseasonalliving.com
Gluten-Free Lemon Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
Be sure to use gluten-free oats in these light cookies that are a fun combination of coconut macaroon and oatmeal cookie.
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A white plate with two dark chocolate truffles surrounded by fresh red raspberries. The background is softly blurred, focusing attention on the dessert arrangement.
homespunseasonalliving.com
Chocolate Raspberry Coconut Macaroons | Homespun Seasonal Living
Combine juicy fresh raspberries with chocolate and coconut for a summer treat sure to impress.
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An open jar spills out dark chocolate quinoa sugar cookies onto a cloth, perfect for any holiday cookie recipes collection. The cookies are irregularly shaped and appear crunchy. The text on the image reads, "Dark Chocolate Quinoa Sugar Cookies.
homesteadlady.com
Gluten Free Foods: Quinoa and Dark Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Please the dark chocolate lover, whether gluten-free or not, in your life with these tasty cookies
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Stacks of gluten-free lemon poppy seed cream cookies sit on a table, with one stack on an orange plate. The text "Shippers: Gluten Free Lemon Poppy Seed Creams" is displayed on the image.
joybileefarm.com
Gluten Free Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies That are Perfect for Shipping
The classic combination of lemon and poppy seed can be had even in gluten free cookies.
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A square white plate holds gluten-free cut-out cookies in various shapes like a stocking, donut, star, tree, and bell. Each delight from holiday cookie recipes is decorated with colorful red, green, and yellow sprinkles. The plate rests on a festive tablecloth.
wildlyorganic.com
Gluten-Free Cut-Out Cookies
Have your gluten free cookies and your cut out cookies in the same delicious recipe.
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A stack of five brown sugar cookies on a white plate next to a bottle of milk. The background features a green and red striped cloth.
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Gluten Free Gingersnap Cookies Recipe
Spicy cookies perfect for the holidays and the ginger lover in your life.
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A close-up of a crumbly peanut butter cookie with a white chocolate worm-shaped design on top, placed in a red and white dish lined with red tissue paper. Another cookie is partially visible in the left corner.
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Frosted Flourless Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint cookies are always a delight and these are made without flour.
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