I promised you on Facebook last week that I’d share my gluten-free wheat-free chocolate chip cookie recipe with you so here it is!  There’s nothing complicated about this recipe at all, but be warned – these are real chocolate chip cookies, not cookies with ‘two chocolate chips’.  Some of you will also be delighted to hear that these cookies have passed the ‘dipping’ test!  You know who you are!

You will need:

240g gluten-free flour (I use rice flour but any gluten-free blend should work just as well)

3/4 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

3/4 level teaspoon baking powder

1/2 level teaspoon xanthan gum

1 teaspoon coarse salt

150g unsalted butter

140g light brown sugar

110g granulated sugar

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

285g chocolate chips

1.  Cream the butter, granulated sugar and light brown sugar together until pale and fluffy.

2.  Sieve in the flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, xanthan gum and salt.  Add the egg, vanilla extract and chocolate and mix together to form a cookie dough.  Don’t be tempted to add another egg or more liquid… the dough will eventually come together.

Gluten-free wheat-free cookie dough

Cookie dough cylinders

Choc-chip cookies ready for baking

Gluten-Free Wheat-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Enjoy these cookies with a big pot of tea, a mug of coffee or crumbled over vanilla ice-cream!  I also use these cookies  for my cookie crumble garnish on celebration cakes and for cheesecake bases.

The variety of cookies you can make with this recipe is only limited by your imagination.  Just substitute nuts, seeds, dried fruit, spices, lemon zest etc. for the chocolate chips.  Experiment!

Happy baking!  Let me know how you get on and don’t forget to post photos of your baking efforts to my Facebook Page.