A GFCF Answer to Decorating Christmas Cookies!

All week long all my son has talked about is decorating christmas cookies - he even found cookie cutters in the kitchen drawer where I keep all of my "preGFGC" cooking utensils. I sat and decorated a gingerbread "cookie tree" with my son thinking this would satisfy him - It was a Wilton kit with real gingerbread and we had the whole talk before we started about how we weren't go to eat anything. It went fine but when we were done he said he wanted to decorate cookies he could eat, like his friends at school.

Now I have to say this is a double edged sword because to hear him voice the words - it kills me - I have been waiting so long to hear him speak about his friends and to notice what they do - I just want to give him what ever he wants to celebrate the words!!! But my saner brain knows that a great deal of the reason why he has words and notices his friends is BECAUSE he doesn't eat like them. So for days I have been trying to come up with a healthy way that he can make and decorate and eat gfcf chistmas cookies. Oh, and did I mention that we are also corn, potato, sugar, yeast, artificial color, flavoring and sweetner free as well? There are many great GFCF cookie mixs out there -full of sugar - and decorations are a Feingold artificial color nightmare!

Then tonight it came to me in a fit of desperation as my child stood in front of me with a Christmas Tree cookie cutter and Star cookie cutter, begging. Pizza Dough! I'm telling you that Namaste Sugar-Free Pizza dough is a GFCF mom's best friend. No, I am not on their payroll, but I would like to buy stock in their company.

I made a quick 1/4 batch of pizza dough and we rolled it between two pieces of parchment paper - My son gleefully cut out two stars and two christmas trees and we threw them in the oven - While they cooked I made some egg free turkey nuggets and heated some carrots, broccolli and red, green and yellow peppers in the microwave. In ten minutes we pulled our "pizza cookies" out of the oven and let them cool. My son frosted them with tomato sauce (Trader Joe's Marinara) and decorated them with broccoli, carrots and peppers. He was literally jumping up and down with glee! I threw some nuggets on his plate and dinner was cooked in less than 15 minutes start to finish!The best part is that he was sooooo happy. We will definately cook more "Pizza Cookies" soon.