Would you like to decorate up some cookies with your kids? Well, if they, or you, need a gluten free mix – I have one for you.
If you’d like to win this mix, just leave a comment and let me know a Christmas tradition in your house. I’d really like to give this to somebody with kids who can make/decorate them together. I will draw a random winner next Tuesday – December 2nd, and get it out to you in time for you to whip up a batch.
Thanks for visiting my blog everyone, your comments (especially the adoration and praise) really keep me blogging about our GF experiences.
PS – this giveaway is open to the US and Canadian residents. Good luck!
Remember the old days in Vancouver? 
Gluten Free section at Life Made Delicious! 
Gluten Free Food at Starbucks in CANADA!!!
I have no kidlets to make cookies with, only a husband. But one of the traditions in my family is to make multiple batches of gluten, soy and dairy cookies called cherry almond crisps. They are sooooo good! I’ll have to make them and share the recipe sometime!
Do you mean gluten-free, soy-free & dairy-free? I’ll look forward to your recipe!
I tried shortbread cookies and tarts last year and didn’t get a very good result, I’ll go search your site for those recipes.
Happy Black Friday! lol
Cathy
Oh yeah, I did. Whoops!
Yeah, gluten free pastry from scratch is iffy at best. My sister has made nut based pastry, but it’s too thick and sweet for anything put pumpkin pie.
Oh man, so many recipes to try but not enough time!
My two daughters and I love making cookies! At this moment my little one is making a gingerbread candy house that grandmal just gave her. We really enjoy decorating the tree together!
Boo ya!
A tradition in our house that happens every year, regardless of how poor we are, is that we adopt a child from the Angel Tree.
I don’t have kids- and I’m not christian! so no christmas traditions! – so I guess I’m not so elidgable for your contest, hehe. But I wanted to say thanks for pointing me in the direction of these sugar cookies.
The boyfriend and I thought it would be nice to make & decorate some holiday cookies this year and, while I love cooking from scratch for him dearly, sometimes a girl needs a break. Good to know this is a yummy mix!
My mom and sister and I love making Christmas cookies, and since my sis and I are both gluten-free these days, they’re all GF cookies. Would love to try something new!
Hi Heidi! What is the Angel Tree?
Thank you for visiting my blog, Dana! And ANYONE can qualify (if they or someone they love is on a gluten-free diet). Would be a crying shame to giveaway GF food to a wheatie!
And, holiday cookies sound like a lovely tradition to me! IMO you don’t have to be Christian to have Holiday traditions! What I really can’t figure out right now is whether I want the kids or myself to decorate the tree… I think we have different ideas of how it will be done!
Again, Thanks for visiting me!
Hi Jesi, thanks for stopping by! Did both you and your sister get diagnosed with Celiac Sprue? You Mom & dad are okay?
Nice to “meet” you!
Cathy
Hi, every year my daughter have a “baking Sunday” where we bake batches of cookies and we wrap them in little Christmas dishes and give them away as gifts. Unfortunately, we now had to change our recipes and make them gluten free, but we are getting there. I will definitely give this product a try if we don’t win, but her birthday is 12/5 and that would be a great incentive… Keep up the good work.
Hi Cathy,
My dad is also a celiac – he was actually the first one to be diagnosed, something like fifteen years ago. Then my sister was diagnosed about five years ago and so it wasn’t a huge surprise when I was diagnosed two years ago. I found your blog through the Gluten-Free News Aggregator, btw, and have read other posts but this is the first one that inspired commneting. Nice to “meet” you too! And just to avoid any confusion – while baking Christmas cookies is still a tradition with my mom and sister and I when we get together for the holidays, I’m a college student and my sister is older, so there aren’t any real “kids” around anymore.
My paternal great grandmother spent days baking Swiss-German cookies for the holidays, specifically zimtsterne and springerle cookies. It was a tradition brought with her family when they emigrated from Switzerland. Every Christmas when we went to Chicago we knew we would be going home with a paper grocery bag filled to the brim with these treats. When she passed away my grandmother began baking them for us, and then my mother, and in the past 10 years I have been baking them, too. My personal tradition is to give homemade treats to friends, family, and neighbors at Christmas, and now I have added these cookies to my repertoire. When my best friend was recently diagnosed as gluten intolerant, I began making gluten free treats specifically for her. (I was looking for recipes for her when I found your website). I would love to learn how to adapt the original family cookie recipes to gluten free versions and keep the quality and the flavor as close as possible to the original.
Hi Cathy,
I was diagnosed with Celiac almost a year ago to date. This made for a Christmas last year with a skipped tradition; a christmas cookie tradition. I was so new to being GF and thought this was going to be a difficult lifestyle; but, thanks to people like yourself I have learned I am not alone……and Wow! GF products / options are really on the rise (happy to say).
In any case, my Mother had always made sugar cookies in various angel, tree, snowmen shapes that we decorated, wrapped and tied with ribbon on the Christmas tree. As Christmas approaches, we eat the cookies off the tree, mind you there were 5 of us children so they didn’t last long
Last year, I did not participate in this tradition. BUT…..this year, we will. My daughter, Rowen will be 2 in Jan. and I would like to continue this tradition with her and maybe one day her family. I know she is going to love decorating our GF cookies. Wish us luck and
Happy Holidays!
Hi Gwen,
Send me your recipe – maybe I could give it a try? It usually takes a bit of work to convert a recipe because the flours are so different. There is the standard substitutions:
check out my flour blend, and then guar gum.
I would love to have a look and see how it works too though. If you’re willing to share the family secrets!
That sounds like an absolutely beautiful tradition! I think I may try that myself with my girls. It will be a fun year for you with a toddler for Christmas!
Our family Christmas tradition; the weekend before Christmas our entire family gathers together and make homemade tamales! It has been in the family for many generations! The best part is they are “Gluten Free”!I have two boys and would love to make the cookies with them. I have been recently diagnosed with Celiac (Feb.) so finding new products is always exciting! Thanks for sharing the name brand with us!
I’m Jewish and celebrate Hanukah, so my Christmas tradition is to tag along with close friends at Christmas time. I love introducing my friends to gluten free goodies at holidays, because they all sympathize and tell me they feel sorry for me. They think I’m missing out on taste! I would love to show them that being gluten free can also be tantalizing! Cheers!