Rolled Sugar Cookies

Recipe makes about 20 cookies.

Ingredients

 * 1½ cups white rice flour
 * ½ cup butter or margarine (cold)
 * ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
 * ½ cup sugar
 * ½ teaspoon baking soda
 * 1 egg (cold)
 * 1½ teaspoon xanthan gum
 * ½ teaspoon gluten-free vanilla, lemon, or almond flavoring
 * ⅛ teaspoon salt

Directions

 * 1) Combine the rice flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, xanthan gum and salt.
 * 2) Mix well.
 * 3) Cut in the butter or margarine until the mixture is in crumbs the size of peas.
 * 4) In a small bowl beat the sugar, egg, and vanilla (or other flavoring) together.
 * 5) Add this mixture to the dry ingredients and mix until the dough pulls away from the sides.
 * 6) Form the dough into a flat ball shape and refrigerate for one hour.
 * 7) Dust some freezer paper (not wax paper) with gluten-free flour or confectioners sugar.
 * 8) Put the dough on the freezer paper and sprinkle with flour or confectioner's sugar.
 * 9) Roll the dough to ¼ inch thick and cut out shapes as desired.
 * 10) Bake at 350 °F for 12 minutes.
 * 11) Cool on a wire rack.