16 Gluten-Free Cookie Recipes Everyone Can Enjoy

Gluten-free cookies as delicious as these are sure to disappear from the dessert table fast. Chocolate-covered caramels go into the batter for the perfect amount of sweet, chewy, and salty in every bite.

Gluten intolerance or not, this gluten-free peanut butter cookie recipe just so happens to one of our favorites. The best part is they only require three ingredients! Simply mix peanut butter with sugar and an egg, and you've got cookie dough ready for baking.

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Slightly crisp on the outside yet perfectly chewy on the inside, this gluten-free chocolate chip cookie recipe is almost identical to our traditional recipe. The only thing that differs is the use of our homemade gluten-free flour mix (recipe follows the cookie recipe).

Get your milk ready! These gluten-free brownies are so fudgy, they're close to crossing the line from bar cookie to cake. So if you need to use a fork to enjoy them, it's totally acceptable here.

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Prepare for your house to smell like Christmas. These gluten-free cookies taste just like our classic snickerdoodles, but suit your allergy-friendly needs.

Test Kitchen Tip: To ensure your gluten-free cookies are a success, follow our recipe for multipurpose gluten-free flour mix. This blend is how the recipes were developed and is the ideal cup-for-cup substitute for most recipes calling for all-purpose flour.

Our Test Kitchen developed a gluten-free cookie dough that's safe to eat with the use of coconut flour, almond flour, or oat flour. The gluten-free monster cookies can be customized to your liking, so go crazy with all the mix-ins you desire.

You'll want to bookmark or pin this gluten-free sugar cookie recipe stat! Cut into your favorite festive shapes for Christmas, Easter, or even just a weekend baking session. Decorate with buttercream frosting or dust with colored sugar before baking for a simple, classy look.

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To make these gluten-free cookies into their enormous size, we scoop out an entire ¼ cup of dough per cookie. The result is a delicious ginger cookie with a slight crunch from coarse sugar coating the outside.

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When you can't decide between chocolate chip cookies or brownies, these gluten-free brookies are the answer. The oat- and almond-flour-based cookie crust adds just a bit of nuttiness to the flavor of the one-pan cookie bars. Bonus: they come together in less than an hour.

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For a healthier twist on cookies, these no-bake gluten-free cookies hit the spot. The bite-size cookies are naturally sweetened with honey, making it the perfect energizing snack for gluten-free friends also avoiding refined sugar.

For a gluten-free brownie recipe that's also Paleo-friendly, these are a real treat. We used cassava flour as the base here, which is made from grinding cassava (aka yuca root). If you haven't had it before, cassava has a really neutral flavor, so you'll only be tasting delicious brownies without tasting like a vegetable.

Blondies are the golden version of brownies for anyone that wants the taste of a delicious chocolate chip cookie—fast. Allow your gluten-free cookies to cool in the pan slightly first (we know, it's hard) on a wire rack before diving in.

Test Kitchen Tip: Keep a batch of any of our gluten-free cookies in the freezer for late-night sugar cravings.

Here's an easy gluten-free cookie recipe that tends to land on a lot of all-time favorite cookie lists. Just be sure you're buying rolled oats with a gluten-free label (regular oats can be contaminated with gluten ingredients). We added a handful of chopped peanuts to this gluten-free no-bake cookie, but you can leave them out if you prefer.

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Subbing protein-rich almond flour (aka almond meal) for regular flour makes a rich, nutty gluten-free chocolate chip cookie. For a bit of tropical flair, try making them with coconut flour instead.

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Our gluten-free oatmeal cookie recipe tastes even better when sandwiched with fluffy marshmallow creme. If you don't have gluten-free oat flour on hand, simply pulse rolled oats in a blender or food processor until it's a fine, flour-like consistency.

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These gluten-free cookies are inspired by popular Jewish cookies called Hamantaschen. They are traditionally formed into triangles before filled with sweet or savory fillings and served for the feast of Purim.