Monday, December 15, 2014

Cookies con Amore: Gluten-free Christmas Cookie Assortment

 

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Glutenetto: Holiday Christmas Cookie Assortment

Gluten-Free Holiday Assortment


You can’t have Christmas without cookies! We’re baking an assortment of some of our favorite gluten-free Italian cookies for the holidays including the Amaretti, Cuccidati (fig), Ricciarelli, Wedding and Raspberry Linzer.
Hand-baked and delivered to your door, this festive assortment is full of amore and dolce to share with your friends and family. It also makes a great hostess gift.

We also bake a traditional Italian cookie assortment for the holidays.
Note: we bake and ship our cookies to order. If you plan to enjoy your cookies on Christmas Day, please make a note in the comment field at checkout and we’ll deliver accordingly.

Glutenetto

I am Italian! So when I had to give up gluten and dairy, I also had to give up so many food traditions and memories. Holiday tables filled with homemade pastries and cookies. When relatives visit in New York they never come empty handed. Usually they would stopped by the local Italian bakery, breathing in the aroma of freshly baked Italian cookies, bread and pastries. 

I have tried to reproduce Italian treats by reworking the recipes so they are gluten-free and dairy-free but they just come out okay. Okay is not good enough considering all the labor that goes into making them. 
So until Sunday, at the Natural Products  Expo West, I just thought that I would never have a chance to taste these delectable treats again.

It was my second and last day at the Expo and we had been there for hours. We were exhausted and ready to leave but decided to go to the 3rd floor where the "newbies" were. Our arms were hurting from carrying the bags filled with flyers, booklets and product and our feet were screaming for relief. We decided to leave. The floor was crowded with people, so we walked around the back of the room. There out of the corner of my eye was 2 beautiful Italian woman surrounded by boxes of outrageous looking Italian cookies.

I look up and was taken back by their sign. It said, "GLUTENETTO CERTIFIED GLUTEN-FREE ITALIAN COOKIES." Being diary-free also, I did not put much hope into the signage. So I asked, "Is there any diary-free cookies also." "YES" they answered. Next question, "Are your cookies baked in a dedicated facility." "YES" they answered.  
GLUTENETTO has a variety of CERTIFIED gluten-free cookies, including several that are dairy-free. Every one of them tastes better the the last.
For a beautiful description and ingredients, please go to the website.




Amaretti - almond and macaroon flavor: Dairy-free


Pignoli- Also flavor of almond and macaroon with pine nuts: Dairy-free
                           Ricciarelli- Tuscan wedding cake style : Dairy-free










Noninne - Lemon zest flavor: contains dairy

Rigenette - Sesame and lemon flavor with orange zest: contains diary.
Polentine - Made with corn flour and raspberry jam: contains dairy.












Cuccidate Fig: contains dairy












Raspberry Linzer- shortbread cookies with raspberry jam contains dairy. 








Gluten-Free Wedding Cakes: contains dairy.
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Gluten-free Wedding Cakes
 

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