GF Shortbread Cookies for the Holiday

HERE WE GO...GOOD GF SHORTBREAD COOKIES

4 sticks(1 lb.) Butter or Earth Balance
1 1/2 cups Sugar or Sorbitol (Xylitol is poison to pets)
2 large Eggs
2 tsp Vanilla extract
3 1/4 cups White Rice FLour + 1/2 cup to dust counter
1 1/2 cups Cornstarch
1 1/4 cups Potato Starch (not flour)
2 tsp salt
1 tsp Xanthan Gum or Guar Gum

Preheat oven to 350 F.
Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper
Using a mixer with paddle attachments (or if you have super biceps, use a wooden spoon by hand)LOL, cream the butter/margarine and sugar/sorbitol on medium speed until light and fluffy.
Scrape the bowl with a spatula.
Add the eggs one at a time while mixing. Mix for 1 minute.
Add the vanilla. Scrape the bowl.
In a separate bowl, combine the 3 1/4 cups Rice Flour, cornstarch, potato starch, salt and xanthan gum.
Add 1/2 the butter mix and mix for 1 minute.
Add the other half and mix until ingredients are combined.
Divide the dough into 3 balls. Set two aside.
Dust your counter or board with flour.
Press the ball flat with your hands first.
Roll the dough ot with a rolling pin to 1/4" thick.
Use your favorite cookie cutters and then place the cookies on the cookie sheets with parchment paper 1" apart.
BAKE for 12-15 minutes at 350 F. Until slightly golden around the edges.
Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack.

Hopefully there will be some left whn they are cooled LOL

Make icing as per any cookbook recipe unless you are sugar free, then you need to find a confectioners sugar substitute. You could try Sorbitol.

Enjoy this Festive Time Of Year !!!!!!! Ho HO Ho