Gluten free Christmas cookies / Bezlepkove Vanocni susenky

It is Christmas time. I want to wish everyone beautiful holidays and lots of great adventures in the New Year.
This year I have improvised with my Christmas cookies. It is not easy to make something gluten free that tastes good and my three year old would love. I think I have it this time. I have made Gingerbread cookies. Here is the recipe.

•  2 1/4 cup rice flour
•  1t ginger
•  1t cinnamon
•  1/2t xanthan gum
•  3/4 cup shortening
•  1 cup sugar
•  1 egg ( I use one puréed apple instead )
•  1/3 cup molasses

Mix it together until you have a nice dough. Cut in half, roll it out and use cookie cutters. Place on a baking sheet with parchment paper and bake at 350 about 12 minutes. It depends how thin your cookies are. We like them little chewy inside so I make them about 1 cm thick. If you like them crispier, make them thinner.

Decorate them however you like.


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Vanoce jsou tady. Preji vsem krasne a pohodove Vanocni svatky a spoustu dobrodruzstvi v Novem roce.
Letos jsem vyzkousela trosku neco noveho s vanocnimi susenkami. Ono neni zrovinka jednoduche upect bezlepkove susenky, ktere jsou dobre a chutnaji memu triletemu synovi. Ale povedlo se. Zazvorove susenky, ktere muzete delat na vanoce nebo mimo ne. Tady je recept.

• 2 1/4 hrnecku ryzove mouky
• 1 lzicka zazvoru
• 1 lzicka skorice
• 1/2 lzicky xanthan gum
• 3/4 hrnicku tuku (neohrivat)
• 1 hrnek cukru
• 1 vejce (ja davam 1 nastrouhane jablko)
• 1/3 hrnecku melasy

Smichejte vse dohromady az mate krasne testo. Uriznete pulku, rozvalejte a pouzijte vanocni a nebo i jine vykrajovatka. Dejte na plech s pecicim papirem a pecte pri 175 C asi 12 minut. Zalezi jak mate silne testo. My mame radi mekke vevnitr a tak je delam asi 1cm silne. Jestli mate radi krupave, delejte je  slabsi.

Pak uz jenom ozdobite podle vasich predstav.

The Mole / Krtecek

The Mole is probably the best known Czech animated cartoon character. Small or big, everybody knows him in the Czech Republic and not only there.
Only one year ago his author and animator Mr. Zdenek Miler died. To his anniversary I would like to say: Thank you for the adoradble stories about The Little Mole. Your work is immortal.
I grew up on The Little Mole and many other Czech animated cartoons. I love The Little Mole. I wanted my kids to know him too.
I painted The Mole on the walls of Niko's bedroom before he was born. Niki's aunt Sarka and grandma brought him lots of things with The Little Mole on it, even a stuffed one with his blue trousers.
Matysek loves him already too. Whenever he sees The Little Mole he smiles at him.
So you should turn on your TV or computer, find The Little Mole and watch it. It doesn't matter if you are not Czech. Everyone can watch it, even if you are Chinese or Brazilian.

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Krtecek je asi nejznamejsi Ceska kreslena postavicka. V Cechach ho zna kazdy, maly i velky divak. A ne jenom v Cechach.
Uz to byl prave rok, co nas opustil jeho tvurce, ilustrator pan Zdenek Miler. K jeho prvnimu vyroci, bych chtela rici: Dekuji za krasne pohadky o Krteckovi. Vase dilo je vecne.
Ja jsem na Krteckovi vyrustala a take na mnoha dalsich kreslenych pohadkach z vecernicku. Krtecka mam moc rada. Take jsem chtela, aby Krtecka znaly i moje deti. Nez se Niko narodil, namalovala jsem mu Krtecka na zed v jeho pokoji. Potom mu jeho teta a babi privezli z Cech plno veci s Krteckem i samotneho Krtka s kalhotkami. Ted ma rad Krtecka uz i Matysek. Kdykoli ho vidi hned se na nej smeje.
Takze dnes si zapnete televizi nebo pocitac, najdete si Krtecka a kouknete se sami. A nevadi, ze nejste Cesi. Na Krtka muze koukat kazdy, i kdyz je Cinan nebo Brazilec.