Gluten-Free Trail Mix Cookies

These gluten-free Trail Mix Cookies are perfectly chewy and loaded with crunchy nuts and seeds, dark chocolate, and sweet-tart dried cherries. They’re made without refined sugar, with a dairy-free option too!

Ingredients
☑️2 cups gluten free flour
☑️1 teaspoon baking powder
☑️½ teaspoon baking soda
☑️1 teaspoon kosher salt
☑️1 cup unsalted butter room temperature or 1 cup of melted coconut oil
☑️1½ cups coconut sugar
☑️¼ cup maple syrup
☑️1 large egg + 1 egg yolk room temperature
☑️1 teaspoon vanilla extract
☑️2 cups gluten free old-fashioned oats
☑️3 tablespoons bittersweet chocolate chips
☑️2 tablespoons dried cherries chopped
☑️1 tablespoon pumpkin seeds
☑️2 tablespoons almonds chopped

Instructions
1️⃣Stir together flour through salt together in a medium bowl.
2️⃣Using an electric mixer, blend butter or coconut oil with sugar at medium speed for several minutes, or until completed blended
3️⃣Lower speed of mixer to low and add in maple syrup, egg, egg yolk and vanilla extract and blend for a few minutes.
4️⃣Once blended add in flour mixture, slowly. Once flour is incorporated into the sugar mixture, add in oats.
5️⃣Once oats are incorporated add in chocolate chips, cherries, pumpkin seeds and almonds. Mix for only a minute. You do not want to over blend.
6️⃣Place the mixing bowl with dough in the refrigerator for a minimum of 20 minutes. This will stop the cookies from spreading too much while baking.
7️⃣Meanwhile, place racks in upper and lower thirds of the oven; preheat to 350°F.
8️⃣Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
9️⃣Drop tablespoon size balls of dough onto prepared sheets, spacing about 2” in between each cookie.
🔟Place one cookie sheet on the upper oven rack and the second cookie sheet on the lower rack.
1️⃣1️⃣Bake cookies for 8 minutes, then transfer the cookie sheet from upper rack to lower and lower to upper.
1️⃣2️⃣Bake cookies for an additional 8 minutes.
1️⃣3️⃣Remove from the oven and let cool to set.
1️⃣4️⃣Cool completely on a wire rack
1️⃣5️⃣Enjoy!

Notes
☑️You can freeze uncooked cookie dough rolled into a log and wrapped tightly in plastic wrap for up to 3 months. Remove from the freezer to thaw. Scoop and cook while the dough is still cool.

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