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Gluten free cookies, Melt Aways or Sequillhos

These little stir together shortbread gluten free cookies are not sweet, so you'll find yourself eating at least 4 before you know it. Easy to make for anybody anywhere
5 from 4 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Course Biscuits, Cookies, gluten free cookies, shortbread
Cuisine brazilian, gluten free
Servings 24

Ingredients
  

Cookies

  • 125 gm butter, melted not hot
  • 200 gm condensed milk 1/2 tin / 395gm can
  • 260 gm cornflour 1 3/4 cups
  • 30 gm cornflour extra ONLY IF NEEDED
  • 1 Tblespoon lemon zest * optional zested ultra fine
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla* optional

Lemon Icing

  • 20 ml lemon juice 1 lemon (1 to 2 Tablespoons)
  • 80 gm icing sugar, mixture 1/2 cup
  • icing sugar extra for dusting

Instructions
 

cookies

  • Set the oven to 160 C / 320F. Line two baking trays with baking paper. Or 1 large tray
  • Whisk together the softened butter and the condensed milk with the lemon zest and vanilla until well combined
  • Add all the 260 gm of cornflour and stir in gradually. It will take a bit of mixing, but combine all the cornflour well
  • The mixture should be just sticky and easy to roll into balls. If it is too sticky add the extra 30 gm of cornflour (but this should not be the case). By adding more cornflour the biscuits become drier so go easy.
  • Roll into even sized 20 gm balls about the size of a walnut (if you've ever seen one of those). You should get around 24 and I weighed mine
  • Put all of them side by side onto a tray and bake for approximately 15 minutes. They look butter when they don't brown too much.

lemon icing

  • Put the icing sugar into a bowl. Add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and stir. Add extra lemon juice a tiny bit more at a time until the icing just runs off the spoon. The icing should just run a little when spooned onto the top of the shortbread
Keyword baked, condensed milk, cookies, gluten free