Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle Recipe

When life gives you flat cookies, make cookie brittle! This gluten free chocolate chip cookie brittle is a great way to save a failed gluten free baking attempt!

I tried to make gluten free chocolate chip cookies by substituting a gluten free baking mix 1:1 in place of wheat flour. Big mistake—the cookies were totally flat!

I think the cookies flattened out because I used a gluten free flour without extra thickeners/stabilizers. I bought the only gluten free flour at my store that had both a GMO free label and a short ingredients list, because it’s kind of silly to be afraid of wheat but to not worry about two ingredients found in many gluten free baking flour packages: GMO corn and xanthan gum. As Cara of Fork and Beans so eloquently puts it:

Xanthan gum is a sugar derived typically from corn (can also be from soy or wheat) that has been pooped out by a bacteria that produces rot on various vegetables.

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Anyway.

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Here’s how to make easy, awesome, gluten free chocolate chip cookie brittle:

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Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle Recipe

Make the Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe (on the back of the bag) EXCEPT
Use Hodgson Mill Gluten Free All Purpose Baking Flour* in place of all purpose flour.
Bake at 375° for 8 minutes.
Remove the cookies from the oven and turn the oven off for 15 minutes.
Return cookies to the oven (still turned off) for 30 minutes.
Break the flat cookies into pieces for Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle!

*I have only made this recipe with Hodgson Mill Gluten Free All Purpose Baking Flour. There were two Hodgson Mill gluten free flour varieties at my store; I used the one with only 3 ingredients (brown rice flour, tapioca starch, cornstarch) labeled GMO free.

If you have success making chocolate chip cookie brittle using a different gluten free flour, please leave the brand or link to the recipe in the comments!

I served the gluten free chocolate chip cookie brittle over ice cream—and simply snacked on a lot of it! PSA: it is very easy to eat the whole batch of crunchy-sweet goodness!