Gluten Free Vampire Eyeball Cookies Recipe - By: Elvalamont

So, your gluten-free-child’s class is having a Halloween party at school and the thought terrifies you. Halloween is supposed to be a little terrifying but not because you are worried if your child will become ill. So what do you do?

Easy, you send cool treats the whole class can share but you know your child can eat. Not only do you keep your child safe for the day but you teach them an important life lesson – when invited to a party, bring something gluten free that everyone can enjoy! Not only is it polite and appreciated, it just makes good sense.

These gluten free vampire eyeball cookies are perfect for Halloween and are just plain fun! How creepy is it to eat something that can stare back at you?

These are basically a gluten free sugar cookie with a simple butter cream frosting – so far nothing too terrifying. But when you add blood soaked irises (thanks to maraschino cherries) dark pupils (courtesy of a chocolate chip) and some bloody veins (red gel frosting) you have yourself one eerie cookie! And if you want alternative maraschino cherries, check these out.

Gluten Free Eyeball Cookies
Gluten Free Vampire Eyeball Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter (or dairy free butter substitute), at room temperature
1 ½ cups sugar – use divided
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 ¾ cups pastry quality gluten free flour*
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon kosher or fine sea salt
Frosting

5 tablespoons unsalted butter or dairy free butter substitute
1 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 pinch kosher or fine sea salt
1 – 1 ½ tablespoons milk or dairy free milk
Several drops maraschino cherry juice (about ¼ teaspoon)
Decorations

18 maraschino cherries – cut in half
36 chocolate chips
2 tubes red cookie decorating gel

• You can make your own gluten free flour blend by whisking together 2 ¼ cups super fine or Asian white rice flour with ¾ cup sweet rice flour, 1 cup potato starch, ½ cup tapioca starch and 2 teaspoons xanthan gum – will make about 4 ½ cups of flour.
Directions

Make the cookies. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with silicon baking sheets or parchment paper.

Take ¼ cup of the sugar and put in a small bowl, reserve.

In the bowl of an electric mixer (preferably fitted with a paddle attachment) cream the butter and 1 ¼ cups sugar on medium speed until very light and fluffy – 5 minutes. Turn the mixer to low and add the eggs, one at a time, mixing in well and scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Add the vanilla and mix well.

In a medium mixing whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. With the mixer on low, gradually add the flour and mix until combined. Scrape the sides and bottom of the mixing bowl well to make sure all the ingredients are well combined.

Form tablespoons of dough into balls into balls (I use a small ice cream scoop for this) and roll in the reserved sugar. Place on the prepared baking sheets about 3 inches apart – the cookies spread quite a bit during baking. Bake for 12 – 15 minutes or until they are just beginning to brown around the edges. Let cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes then remove to a wire rack to finish cooling completely.

While the cookies are cooking, pre[are the frosting. Beat the 5 tablespoons of butter with the powdered sugar, vanilla, salt and 1 tablespoon of milk. Add a few drops more of milk if needed – the mixture should be smooth and thick but spreadable. Add a few drops of maraschino cherry juice and blend – you want the mixture just barely pink.

Frost the cookies with about 1 teaspoon of frosting in a circle (to resemble the whites of an eye). Top each cookie with a maraschino cherry half and stick a chocolate chip in the whole of the cherry. Use the decorator gel to make veins. Allow the gel to harden for 30 minutes.

Resource :http://simplygluten-free.com/blog/2011/10/gluten-free-vampire-eyeball-cookies-recipe.html

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