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Gluten-Free Christmas Cookie Recipes

Your child can still enjoy those holiday treats even if wheat's off the menu

By Terri Mauro, About.com

A big tray of cookies frosted red and green, sparkling with sugar and speckled with nuts, cut into stars or pressed down with thumbprints, is as much a part of family Christmas memories as a tinsel-decked tree or a jolly visitor in a red suit. If your child has to avoid gluten, those cookies might seem to be no-nos -- but these recipes from around the Web, described by their authors as being gluten-free, can help you say yes to sugar cookies, gingersnaps, and all those traditional treats.

Melt-in-Your-Mouth Shortbread
Gluten-Free Lemon Shortbread
Source: Recipelink.com

Christmas Sugar Cookies
Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread Cookies #2
Source: Celiac.com

Big-Batch Gluten-Free Christmas/Sugar Cookie Recipe
Source: Only Sometimes Clever

Gluten Free Gingersnap Cookies
Source: RecipeZaar

Gluten-Free Almond Thumbprint
Source: Epicurious

Pignoli
Source: Wild Oats Marketplace

Cinnamon Stars
Source: PastryWiz

Almond Rice Madeleines
Source: Cooks Recipes

Gluten-Free Shortbread
Source: Flora's Recipe Hideout

Chocolate-Covered Dream Bites
Mint Chocolate-Chip Meringues
Source: About Home Cooking

Gluten-Free Gingersnaps
Source: CookingCache.com

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