Gluten free oreo goodness

So have I mentioned my husband's family has a lot of people with celiac?  He is #3 out of 9 kids.  Four of the nine have it and a few refuse to be tested.  I have my opinions about that, but they have already heard them.  Anyhow, back to business of the ubber delicious oreos.  My brother-in-law (who refuses to get tested) is usually a wee bit annoyed by the gluten free food at family gatherings.  However, when I made these little suckers, he couldn't keep his hands off of them.

Oreo Goodness

1 cup butter softened 

2 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 ts vanilla

2-1/2 cup gluten free flour

3/4 cup coco

1 ts baking soda

1/2 ts salt

1-1/4 ts xanthum gum

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all of the dry ingredients together.  In a separate bowl cream butter and sugar together.  Add eggs and vanilla and mix.  Next, add the dry ingredients.  Once mixed, I usually use my 1 TBS cookie scooper and scoop 12 onto a cookie sheet, I cut them in half and roll them into balls with my hand.  Bake for 8-9 minutes.  When you take them out they will look a little underdone, but don't keep baking them.  They are much better when they are soft.  Let them cool on a cookie sheet for a few minutes and then place them on a cooling rack. 

Once they have cooled frost them with this fantastic frosting.

Frosting

4 ounces cream cheese

1 stick of butter

1-1/2 cups powder sugar

1/2 ts vanilla

1/8 ts salt

Cream butter then add cream cheese.  Add powder sugar, mix and then add vanilla and salt. If for some reason the mixture seems to runny then you can add a little more powder sugar.  Prepare yourself: you may just have to run on the treadmill an extra hour or two to burn off what you ate.  

Flour mixture

The gluten-free flour mixture that I always use is a mixture of rice flour, tapioca flour, & potato flour.

* 6 cups Brown Rice Flour (I have learned that fine rice flour doesn't work the same)
* 2 cups Potato Flour
* 1 cup Tapioca Flour

I mix them and put them large tupperware bin.  I usually, okay, okay my husband usually mixes a ton at a time for me.  I buy 50lb bags of each, it has been the cheapest way for me.  I buy it from Honeyville.

My husband and 7 year old son were diagnosed with celiac disease in 2012.  I'll admit that when my husband was diagnosed I thought "I can do this".  When my son was diagnosed, I cried for a week straight.  I hated that his diet needed to be so restricted and I felt so much pressure on me to make sure he didn't get any gluten.  I kept thinking what is going to happen when kids in his 2nd grade class bring in cupcakes or donuts for their birthdays.  I didn't want him to feel different or upset that he couldn't eat what the other kids were eating.  My son is a rock star and has been amazing with these changes but I have had to be the one to make these changes for my family.  Holy Cow!  I have been overwhelmed with recipes and they all seem to have about a billion ingredients and I don't even know what they are.  I have 4 kids the oldest is 7 so I don't have time to go though the rigamaroll of difficult recipes.  I've made it my mission to bake simple, but good gluten free meals and sweets (my favorite).