The Autism Diet

Making gluten free and casein free treats for your children can be difficult when you have to avoid such basic ingredients, like wheat, milk and often, soy, corn and rice.

Still, it is possible to make a great tasting cookie that does not take hours to prepare. This is just about the simplest cookie mix you will find on the GFCF diet.

You can use this recipe to make different cookies, simply by tweaking the ingredients. One day you might make chocolate or carob cookies. Another day you might make cinnamon cookies.

This recipe is free of gluten, casein, soy, egg, yeast, rice, corn, potato, chocolate and beans.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sorghum flour (or brown rice or chickpea)
• 1/2 cup tapioca flour (or other starch)
• 1/2 cup sugar (or other sweetener)
• 3 tsp egg replacer powder (like Ener-G) or 1 flax “egg” or applesauce/pearsauce/etc.
• 2 tsp xanthan gum (or guar gum)
• 2 tsp baking powder (corn-free, if desired)
• 1 tsp sea salt (optional)
• Extra sugar (optional)
• Canola oil (or other oil)
• Water 

Mix all of the dry ingredients. Then, add a half cup of oil and a half cup of water. Use a mixer to blend.

Wet your hands and then scoop out small ball shaped chunks of dough. Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet or in a muffin tin. You also can spread the dough down in a sheet to make bars.

Bake at 400 degrees for 12-15 minutes. They will be very soft coming out of the oven but will firm up as they cool. When cool, top with some icing or powdered sugar. Or, simply serve plain. 

This is the standard recipe. You can make these variations and others – be creative.

– Carob/cocoa: add 1-2 tbsps.carob or cocoa powder to the recipe.– Spice: no carob. add 1 tsp cinnamon and 1/2 tsp ginger to the dry mix. Add 1 tbsp syrup (cane, maple, honey, agave) to the 1/2 cup of water measure.

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