Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies are a small-batch cookie recipe that you can whip up in a snap. No more with cookie recipes that make 4 dozen and take all day to make. There’s no dough to chill and nothing to roll out. You won’t believe how easy and delicious they are.
Welcome to the Good and Good for You™ newsletter, a quick 5-minute read with ideas and info on ways to help improve your life – including a tasty and healthful recipe.
These Sugar Cookies are crispy, chewy, and easy to make with only 4 ingredients — no mixer required. Putting them together is more like playing with Play-Doh rather than making dough. And, whether you need gluten-free or not, you and your family will love these dump-and-stir cookies.
This issue also shares:
- Best Life Living Tip: Realistic Expectations about Holiday Feasting
- Self-Care Strategy: Avoiding Triggers
- Ideas and Inspiration: Lebanese Baking
- Good and Good for You™ Recipe: Gluten Free Sugar Cookies
Thanks for reading! It’s awesome to see that this newsletter is making life better in some way for so many people. Each and every week, I get a note, a DM, an email, and sometimes a real letter telling me I inspired them to go for a walk, take a yoga class, or start drinking mocktails. It’s powerful!
The key to hospitality is making everyone feel welcome. Folks with gluten issues often miss out on high-cookie season, but no longer! Read on for more — including this recipe for Gluten Free Sugar Cookies
Best Life Living Tip
It’s very important to have realistic expectations about Holiday feasting. (She says calmly after smashing a handful of kisses….)
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Holiday meals are meant to be enjoyed, not audited. A few celebratory plates won’t undo your health. Wellness is shaped by what you do most of the time, not some of the time.
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Approach alcohol with intention, not restriction. Decide what feels good for your body and pace yourself so you can enjoy the moment and the morning after.
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Grace matters more than guilt. Overindulgence doesn’t require punishment. No one benefits if you beat yourself up. Simply return to your regular habits and move forward.
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Let your body, not rigid rules, guide you. Energy, sleep, and digestion are better indicators of balance than perfection or the scale.
You can do it!
Self-Care Strategy
Avoiding triggers is the best self-care strategy you can do during the holidays — head it off before it starts.
If you find yourself triggered by certain activities, do your best to replace them with emotionally fulfilling ones.
If certain holiday movies remind you of sad times or lost friends, don’t watch them.
If a problematic relative or acquaintance is going to a holiday event, consider whether you really need to be there. You can also drop by for a brief check-in rather than attending the full event.
If packed schedules and constant obligations leave you exhausted, simplify on purpose. Saying no to one event can create space to actually enjoy the ones that matter most.
My #1 suggestion if you find yourself triggered is to get outside and take a walk.
Ideas and Inspiration
I’ve known Maureen and have respected her work for years. It’s so wonderful to see her having such great success with her beautiful new book, Lebanese Baking.
In this authoritative cookbook, she celebrates the baked goods of Lebanon in traditional recipes and Lebanese American innovations, from crisp pastries and syrup-soaked cakes to savory breads and hand pies.
Gorgeous, mouthwatering photography highlights the recipes, and helpful process shots guide you, step by step, through numerous techniques. If you like to bake, you need to check out this book.
Make sure to check out maureenabood.com and follow her on IG at @maureenabood
Good and Good for You Living Spotlight
There’s a whole lot of skinny focus going on again in regards to women in media — as if it never left. No body shaming for too much or too little weight, that’s ahem, “wicked” to do women. And, the uptick with Ozempic & Co has some female celebrities looking seriously guant.
To hell with skinny, I want to be strong!
You need a lid for the new year and the new you! Check out the “healthy and strong” baseball caps over at goodandgoodforyouliving.com
Make it Count
Make it CountHope you love these GF sugar cookies! They’re based on a recipe for Pecan Macaroons Ancienne, and I am so happy they worked out so well.
Thank you for reading. For more tips, inspiration, and healthy recipes, follow @virginiawillis on Instagram
If you choose what’s Good and Good for You™ most of the time, you’re headed in the right direction. You’ve got this!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Be safe and tell your people you love them.
Bon Appétit, Y’all!
Virginia Willis
Gluten Free Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 6 ounces almond meal about 1 1/2 cups
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cardamon
- Pinch fine sea salt
- 2 large egg whites
- 1/2 cup sprinkles
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with a nonstick silicone baking mat. Place the almond meal, sugar, cardamom, salt, and egg white in the bowl. Stir with a rubber spatula to combine.
- Using a 1-tablespoon ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, drop the cookies into the sprinkles and press to adhere.
- Place on the prepared baking sheet about 1-inch apart. Flattened with the bottom of a moistened glass.
- Bake until browned and crisp, about 12 minutes. Remove the baking sheet to a rack to cool slightly before transferring the individual cookies to the rack to cool completely. Store the cookies for up to 1 week in a sealable airtight container.
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