why didn't this work? gluten free cookies

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I made some gluten free choc cookies. They ended up really thin and brittle, almost like honeycomb. D'you think it was not enough flour?

These are the ingredients:

6 tbsps butter, 6 tbsp brown sugar, 7 tbsp caster sugar, 1 egg, 3/4 cup rice flour, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1 tbsp cocoa powder. Mix all ingredients in a mixer and roll the dough into balls.

Not an expert on GF, but pretty much every recipe I've tried to bake so far has had xanthum gum in it, maybe that's what's missing?

is that a normal recipie or a GF recipie

I have a GF (& dairy free) friend and despite what is says, in most cases you cant just use GF flour instead of normal flour to get the same result.

She has all sorts of flour mixes (containing many types of GF flours) that she uses for different recipies.

also most GF cook books, have recipies where pretty much every recipie has some unusual ingrediants in as well as a combination of flours

Have you guys found a website called Pig in the Kitchen?
I've used it loads for munchies for my LO. GF toddler-sized food just doesn't exist in the shops (specially when DF & soya free too!)

I did wonder about the flour. It was from a gluten free recipe book. I thought I might add some cornflour next time.

I have been dabbling in GF baking, and most of them do have a lot of different flours in them.

My grandpa's biscuits always came out thin and brittle. But the shortbread we used to make was wonderful used a combination of flours.

(Makes an 8" round).
Temp 350 (? please check) gas mark 4.

6oz/150g gluten free flour
4oz/100g butter
2oz/50g ground rice or rice flour
2oz/50g castor sugar
1 medium egg

Mix flour and rice/rice flour and rub in butter.
Add sugar and mix in enough beaten egg to bind.

Bake until just brown on top.

I still love this now.

Thanks for the recipe Trinaj!

Do you have to use the special blends of flour or can you use a gluten free flour such as cornflour/potato flour etc.?

My DH is GF and we tend to just subsitiute GF flour blend (not just rice flour as it's too bity) in a recipie. Here's a few tips:

• Add a few rolled oats (if GF person can eat them) as they bulk-up cookies.
• Bake cookies on silicone sheets as they won't stick.
• Chill dough in fridge before use as it helps keep cookies from 'spreading' too much
• Allow cookies to cool completely before trying to remove them, sometimes too hard to resist!
• Add pinch of Xantham Gum, it bworks wonders.

Happy baking : )

This one uses buckwheat flour. It's not brittle and goes quite soft after a while.