A Gluten Free Christmas: Gluten Free Lemon Star Biscuit Recipe

December 17th, 2008 by admin

This is one of my favourite gluten free christmas recipes. We have always made star shaped biscuits to hang on the tree and I never get to decorate many because it’s one of the family traditions that the kids go wild with icing sugar and sprinkles so ever biscuit is a real sugar high, and even though Jamie is now celiac, that does not need to change!

Gluten Free Lemon Star Biscuit Recipe

Ingredients

325g plain gluten free flour or rice flour (+ some for rolling out)

1 tsp xanthan gum

200g chilled salted butter

grated lemon zest of one lemon

125g golden caster sugar

2 tsp good-quality vanilla extract

2 large egg yolks

Method

Rub gluten free flour and xanthan gum into butter

stir in the remaining ingredients and knead into a stiff dough

Roll out on a surface with gluten free flour and cut into star shapes. If you want to hang these on the tree, make a hole in a point of each star with a skewer.

Bake at 180′C/gas 5 for about 20 mins until just turning golden

When cool, decorate with icing and mini decorations (check they are gluten free as some brands are and some brands are not!) Let the kids loose on them!!