Chewy Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose gluten-free flour
• 1/4 cup sweet rice flour (also called sticky rice flour or glutinous rice flour)
• 1/4 cup tapioca flour
• 2 tablespoons almond meal
• 1/4 cup softened unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar or 1/2 cup turbinado sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 F degrees.
2. Blend butter, sugars, egg and vanilla with a wooden spoon until creamy.
3. In a separate bowl, blend flours, baking soda, almond meal and salt.
4. Fold dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix well.
5. Grease a baking sheet.
6. Drop a tablespoon of the batter at a time onto the cookie sheet, leaving ample room between cookies.
7. Bake for 10 minutes.
8. Remove from oven and allow to sit for 5 minutes before transferring carefully to cooling rack.