Gluten free vegan raspberry pinwheel cookies. What’s not to love about a sugar cookie with a swirl of sweet raspberry jam and a sprinkling of sparkling sugar?
Making cookies is completely therapeutic for me. They don’t take much time to make and you can enjoy the fruits of your labor shortly after they come out of the oven. No waiting forever for them to cool. Just mix, bake and enjoy. Cookie making is always a good idea.
There are so many reasons I love this time of year, but one reason that’s pretty high up there…you guessed it, cookie baking! Lots and lots of cookies. All month long. Chocolate snowflake sugar cookies, gingerbread men, and walnut crescent cookies are a few of my faves. Do you have your must-bake holiday cookies that you make every year? There are some that are just nostalgic for me and that bring back so many memories. Decorating sugar cookies on Christmas Eve with my kids, that’s one of them.
I actually used my gluten free vegan sugar cookie recipe to make these raspberry pinwheel cookies. The dough is slightly different, but still soft and tender. The dough is rolled up, with a raspberry jam filling. The cookies are sliced and sprinkled with sparkling sugar before going into the oven. They are such a pretty cookie and really only take a few steps to make. You could really use any fruit jam in this recipe, even apricot or strawberry would be lovely. A perfectly sparkly Christmas cookie.
- 2 1/4 cups Sarah’s gluten free flour blend
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup cane sugar
- 1/3 cup refined coconut oil
- 1/3 cup unsweetened almond milk or coconut milk beverage, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract {optional}
- 1/2 cup raspberry jam
- 3 tablespoons Bob’s Red Mill sparkling sugar
- In medium bowl, sift together flour blend, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In bowl of stand mixer, beat together powdered sugar, sugar and coconut oil. Add almond milk, vanilla and almond extract. Mix until creamy.
- Add flour mixture and continue to mix cookie dough until combined, 1-2 minutes.
- Divide dough in half and shape into two round discs. Wrap each one in plastic wrap. Let dough rest in refridgerator for 20-30 minutes.
- On counter, lay out large piece of plastic wrap. Place cookie dough in the center and top with another piece of plastic wrap.
- Roll one disc of dough into 12”x6” rectangle. Top with 1/4 cup raspberry jam, covering dough with thin layer. Leave 1/2-inch at long end free of jam.
- Roll up dough into log, starting at the long end and rolling up. Wrap in plastic wrap and place in fridge for chill for around 20 minutes. Repeat with remaining disc of dough.
- When dough is chilled, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Remove dough from refrigerator. Using sharp knife, slice into 1/2-inch circles. Place on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with sparkling sugar.
- Bake cookies 9-11 minutes. Don’t over-bake, as they won't turn much of a golden brown.
- Remove cookies from oven and place on cooling rack to cool completely. Store in air-tight container.
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I’ve joined up with some of my fave gluten-free bloggers for a Virtual Gluten-free Cookie Exchange! Just in time for those cookie swaps, holiday parties and lazy baking days at home. Every blogger has included a fabulous giveaway {$50+ value} with their recipe too. Be sure to check out ALL 12 gluten free cookie recipes, as well as the giveaways, by clicking the links below. Happy baking, friends!
Gluten-free Oatmeal Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookies from My Gluten-Free Kitchen
Gluten-free Gingerbread Kiss Cookies from Gluten Free Palate
Snowball Cookies from Allergylicious
Gluten-Free Double Chocolate Mint Cookies from Meaningful Eats
Cinnamon Stars from Life After Wheat
Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies in Jar from This Vivacious Life
Crock Pot Bark with Salted Peanuts from What the Fork
Candy Cane Cookies from gfJules
Coffee Flour Cookies from Flippin’ Delicious
Snickerdoodle Cookies from Veggie Balance
Lemon Cranberry Cookies from Vegetarian Mamma
Gluten Free Vegan Rasberry Pinwheel Cookies from Sarah Bakes Gluten Free
This giveaway has been sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill. Recipe and opinions are my own.
I just made these sugar cookies today! Have some dough left over so maybe I’ll try some pinwheels.
These are the prettiest cookies ever. That swirl is perfect!
Such a pretty holiday cookie to share with your family. I just love that you kept these vegan too, so now we can enjoy them as well.
Every year I love crushing peppermint and making chocolate chip peppermint cookies!
I love a gf snickerdoodle but these would be a perfect addition to our holiday baking list! They look wonderful. Thank you!
Every year, I use my grandmother’s butter cookie recipe and make chocolate chip, walnut cookies. Or I will change out the chips and replace them with dates. I know that I can make them any time of year but the memories of Grandmom C’s cookies are especially special at Christmas.
My must bake cookies every year are peanut butter thumbprint cookies. Can’t wait to try these though!
I must make buckeyes at Christmas! Loved them growing up.
The cookie we have to make every Christmas is Frosted Sugar cookies! ???? ???? ⭐️ ???? ????
Macaroons are my favorite!
The ones I make the most are chocolate chip!
I have to make green Christmas tree spritz cookies every year! My mom always made them and I love carrying on the tradition. They always look so cute with festive sprinkles!
we like to make pizzelles in different flavors every year.
Gingerbread men, a recipe from Joy of Cooking, with no eggs. I like to roll them out thick and give them some decoration. They are soo good, and good for giving away, too.
I almost always make ginger cookies each Christmas
The cookie I have to make every year are ginger snaps.
My favorite go to cookies are Sugar cookies.
My favorite go to cookies are Sugar cookies.
My favorite cookie has orange slice candy in it. I don’t really have a recipe for it I just add it to an oatmeal cookie instead of raisins or chocolate chips. I don’t make them every year because I can’t stay out of them. Oh how I love them. I also add coconut to them.
I sure do miss your recipes not being posted often.
I like to bake cream cheese spritz cookies the most over the holidays.
These look really good. This recipe may inspire me to get started on my Christmas cookie baking.
snicker doodles..the kids love it
What a lot of great recipes and new links to explore, thanks! My must-bake Christmas cookies are cut out sugar cookies and chocolate crinkles. I’d like to try the pinwheels.
I always love making gingerbread cookies.
Gluten free cranberry orange shortbread is my favorite hiday cookie.
Yum! Looks delicious
What brand of raspberry jam do you like to use?
Those look so good!
These look so delicious! My son loves trying new recipes and his siblings enjoy taste testing ????
I have to make decorated sugar cookies. Last year I invited all the neighbor kids over to decorate cookies with my kids. There was frosting and sprinkles everywhere but it was so fun!
I bake chocolate crackle cookies every year. My kids love it as we make them together. Family time ☺️
Yum! I love so many of bobs red Mill products!
We love to make Gingerbread men and Thumbprint cookies every year! ????
Gf nutmeg logs!
I have to make gingerbread, sugar cookies and peanut butter balls
Almond Snowballs.
Sugar cookies to decorate!
I love to make almond crescent cookies.
I have never made pinwheel cookies before but these look amazing! Definitely need to make these this year for Christmas. Thank you!
Gluten free and vegan sugar cookies!
We make sugar cookies every year!
I love baking at Christmas. These look delicious! A favorite of mine for Christmas are snowballs.
These cookies are beautiful! In my house, we make cut-out sugar cookies every year! The little children have so much fun decorating.
The cookies I make every year are raspberry thumbprint cookies. Can’t wait to try some of these cookies! They all look delicious!
The one thing I’ve truly missed being GF is my mom’s Christmas cookies. This might just make up for that!????
I love to make creme de menthe brownies!
I love to make meringue cookies!
I love to make coconut patties (like macaroons) by Dorie Greenspan!
These cookies look absolutely delicious – I might have to give the recipe a try!
Chocolate chip cookies are my go-to for year-round, but during the holidays I am into gingerbread and sugar cookies. Especially chocolate chip gingerbread cookies!
This is so great for the holidays. I’m always looking for ways to make my boyfriend feel a little less left out when everyone else has all the festive cookies and there just isn’t the same spread for the gluten free folks!
I love pinwheel cookies! My grandma made date pinwheels and I had to deconstruct and reconstruct her hand-written recipe when I had to go GF, but I did it! I may try her recipe with your yummy raspberry filling – it looks so festive!
Happy Christmas to you, my friend!
These gluten free vegan raspberry pinwheel cookies look wonderful! My son is gluten free, but I’ve found that I also enjoy many of the recipes I make for him. I’m looking forward to trying these. And they’re pretty, too! Thank you for the recipe.
Oh my these look delicious! I will be making these soon!
LOVE THAT THIS IS ALSO VEGAN!!
Love this recipe!
I do cookies all year round! Not just for holidays! These are so beautiful; they’re next on my list now!
What a fun cookie!
I tweak my mothers’ Peanut Butter Thumbprints into Nut Butter and if she fails to make Snickerdoodles, it’s up to me.
I always have to make gluten-free cut out sugar cookies with icing and sprinkles for the holidays. They are my favorite!
I have to be super traditional and say sugar cookies with the meringue frosting and sprinkles are my yearly go to. It’s the one cookie my kids can decorate any way and I love it!
Spritz cookies!
Peanut Butter Blossoms, just like my grandma used to make. Well, except for the fact that mine are gluten free, vegan, and made with almond butter because my son has a peanut allergy ????
I make gingerbread cookies every year – gluten free, of course!
Our must-bake is stained-glass sugar cookies, so pretty!
Peanut butter blossoms – peanut butter cookies with a Hershey kiss pressed in after baking
The kids love baking sugar cookies that they can decorate and give to the family.
These look delicious!
My go-to cookies for Christmas every year would have to be sugar cookies, gingerbread & thumbprint cookies.
I always make gingerbread cookies
The must-bake is a basic butter/butter-y cookie with cardamom. Vegan & gf for some of the family, dairy-wheat for the rest.
We have to have angels thumb prints 🙂