Gluten Free Animal Crackers Recipe
Everybody loves animal crackers! Now there's even more to love with this homemade gluten-free animal crackers recipe that's also allergy-friendly!
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Servings: 60 -70 animal crackers
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup palm or vegetable shortening 4 Tbs.
- 3 Tbs. brown sugar or coconut palm sugar
- 2 Tbs. coconut nectar or agave nectar or honey or maple syrup
- 1/4 tsp. lemon juice
- 1 egg room temperature or substitute like applesauce or Ener-G Egg Replacer
- 1 1/4 cups gfJules™ All Purpose Gluten Free Flour
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar
- 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg optional, but classic
Instructions
- Cream the shortening, sugar and nectar or honey well. Add lemon juice and egg and stir to mix.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients, then add to the sugar mixture. Beat just until fully integrated. The dough should hold together in a ball and not be dry or crumbly.
- Refrigerate dough for 2 hours or overnight, to make it less sticky.
- Preheat oven to 325° F convection (preferred) or 350° F static.
- Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Prepare a clean counter or pastry mat by sprinkling more gfJules™ Flour on the surface. Dip cutters into more gfJules™ flour to coat well.
- Roll the dough out to 1/8 inch thickness – try not to over-work or warm the dough while rolling. Use cutters to form animal shapes, depressing plungers of cutters with detail, if using. If any dough sticks in the plungers, use a toothpick between cookies to remove dough, then dip the cutters in gfJules Flour again.
- Bake in preheated oven for 7-9 minutes, removing when the edges begin to lightly brown.
- Makes 60-70 animal crackers.
Notes
P.S. – thanks to Rebecca M. who shared that she has been using cutters like these to make graham cracker animal crackers with my gfJules™ Gluten Free Graham Cracker Mix – another easy, great snack idea!
** Please keep in mind that nutrition information provided is per serving, which may vary. While we have taken care to provide you with the most accurate nutritional values possible, please note that this information may differ significantly depending on the exact ingredients and brands that you choose to use to make this recipe. Additionally, where options are given for ingredients, the resulting calculation may include all ingredient options instead of only one per line, skewing the totals significantly.