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Baking gluten free sugar cookies for St Patrick’s Day brings a fun twist to your holiday treats. These cookies are soft inside, slightly crisp around the edges and perfect for decorating. The dough comes together quickly with simple ingredients you already have in the pantry. It’s a recipe that feels festive yet easy enough for a weekday bake. Kids can help cut out shapes, making it a fun family project.
These gluten-free sugar cookies for St Patrick’s Day bake up soft and tender with crisp edges. They’re simple to make, fun to decorate and full of holiday cheer.
If you like these, you might also enjoy creme brulee cookies served with whipped dalgona coffee or crockpot pumpkin spice latte.
Why You’ll Love It
Simple ingredients: You probably have most of these at home already.
Perfect texture: Crisp edges with soft, chewy centers.
Kid friendly: A fun baking project kids can help with.
Holiday ready: Great for St Patrick’s Day parties and events.
Gluten Free St. Patrick’s Cookies Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Gluten free flour: Bob’s Red Mill 1:1 flour keeps the cookies gluten free and soft.
Corn starch: Adds tenderness and prevents a dense texture.
Butter: Provides rich flavor and structure.
Granulated sugar: Sweetens and helps with the cookie’s golden color.
Eggs: Bind everything together and add richness.
Vanilla extract: Brings warm, aromatic flavor to the cookies.
How to Make Sugar Cookies for St. Patrick’s Day
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Combine dry ingredients: Sift flour, corn starch and salt in a bowl.
Cream butter and sugar: Beat until light and fluffy.
Add eggs and vanilla: Mix eggs one at a time, then add vanilla.
Add dry to wet: Mix until a smooth dough forms.
Chill dough: Divide dough, wrap and refrigerate.
Prepare baking sheet: Line with parchment paper.
Roll and cut: Roll dough, cut shapes with a cookie cutter.
Bake and cool: Bake until lightly golden, then cool on a rack.
Substitutions and Variations
Dairy-free option: Swap butter for dairy-free margarine or coconut oil.
Flavor twist: Add almond extract for a nutty flavor.
Egg free version: Use flax eggs for an eggless alternative.
Festive look: Tint the dough green with food coloring for St Patrick’s Day flair.
Serving Suggestions
Appetizers: Begin your Irish feast with Irish nachos or green goddess salad.
Main dish: Next, serve up a Crockpot corned beef hash au gratin or these fun Irish style tacos.
Dessert: Enjoy these St. Patrick’s sugar cookies, perhaps with a honeydew margarita or shamrock shake.
How to Store St. Patty’s Day Cookies
Store: Keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
Freeze: Wrap baked cookies tightly and freeze up to 2 months.
Thaw: Bring to room temperature before decorating or serving.
Top Tips
Chill thoroughly: Keeps cookies from spreading.
Don’t overmix: Prevents tough cookies by mixing only until combined.
Use parchment: Prevents sticking and helps even baking.
Roll evenly: Ensures cookies bake at the same rate.
Gluten Free St Patrick’s Day Cookies FAQs
These gluten-free sugar cookies can be decorated any way you like, in any colors you choose. If you’re making icing, you’ll need food coloring, or you can buy colored icing ready-made. This royal icing guide explains consistency, flooding and troubleshooting, but practice and patience are key. I used a decorative scribe tool to decorate mine.
Yes, royal icing or simple glaze works well once the cookies are cool.
Yes, refrigerate overnight and bake the next day.
Easy Gluten Free St. Patrick’s Cookie Recipe
Gluten Free St. Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies
Equipment
- Round Cookie Cutter Small or Medium
Ingredients
- 4 Cups gluten free flour, I used Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1
- ⅓ Cups cornstarch
- ¼ Teaspoon salt
- 1 Cup butter
- 1 Cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a bowl sift together the flour, cornstarch and salt. Mix lightly to combine.
- In the bowl of a mixer with a paddle attachment, add the butter and sugar. Mix until a creamy consistency.
- Continue mixing and add the eggs, one at a time. Scrape down the side of the mixer bowl if necessary.
- Next add the vanilla and mix again.
- Add the dry mixture to the mixer bowl. Mix to combine completely.
- Break the dough into two sections. Flatten each on a piece of plastic wrap, cover dough disc completely and refrigerate.
- Preheat the over the 375°F. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Once the dough disc is chilled, removed from the plastic wrap. Roll it out on a floured surface.
- Use a round cookie cutter to cut out the sugar cookie shapes.
- Place the sugar cookies on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 11 to 13 minutes until lightly golden.
- Remove baking sheet from the over and let cool for a few minutes. Carefully place the sugar cookies on a rack to cool completely before decorating.
Notes
Don’t overmix: Prevents tough cookies by mixing only until combined.
Use parchment: Prevents sticking and helps even baking.
Roll evenly: Ensures cookies bake at the same rate.
Nutrition
With these gluten free sugar cookies for St Patrick’s Day, you’ll have a batch of soft, sweet treats ready to decorate and share. This St. Patrick’s Day cookie recipe keeps things simple while giving you festive cookies full of flavor and fun. It’s a holiday bake you’ll want to make every year.
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A special thank you to my friend Krista at Krista’s Cookies for helping with this gluten free St. Patrick’s cookie recipe.
Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
These are absolutely beautiful. love that it’s gluten-free too!
These look so yummy and are gluten free too! That’s amazing!
I think both my daughters would enjoy making these cookies. Thanks for sharing.
I love how festive it looks. These will definitely be a hit.
Can I just say how talented you are? You are such an amazing blogger!
These look absolutely fabulous!!!! I love sugar cookies!
This looks amazing just like a bakery! I want to try to make royal icing.
OMG these cookies are absolutely beautiful!!!! I am so impressed and I love that it’s gluten-free too!
I have to admit these are the most beautiful Saint Patrick’s Day cookies I’ve ever seen. And even more when they are gluten-free and sugar-free. Thank you for this recipe.I will try to emulate it but I know I will never get that pretty cookie.