Three Choices for Great-Tasting Gluten-Free Cookies

When following a strict gluten-free diet, it can be difficult to find special treats that taste as good as the "real thing," but it can be done. More and more companies are producing gluten-free snacks including cookies. So it is no longer necessary to bake your own gluten-free cookies when they are readily available at your local grocery store and definitely satisfy that craving for a sweet treat! These cookies are also great to bring to parties or to serve as dessert when you have company over for dinner.

Here are three choices for gluten-free cookies that I found to be delicious:

Pamela's Products All Natural Chocolate Chip Mini Cookies. These cookies are wheat-free, gluten-free and 0g Trans Fat. These really taste great, like real chocolate-chip cookies. Very crispy with lots of mini chocolate chips. They measure about 1-1/4 inches in diameter but the 7 oz. bag is packed full. It's a great value at between $3-4 per bag. These cookies are also non-dairy. There's a recipe on the bag for making ice-cream cookies. These cookies are 140 calories for 5 cookies (28 grams) and contain total fat of 7 grams.

Pamela's Products All Natural Ginger Mini Snapz. Pamela's Products has done it again! These are thick, but crisp with a strong ginger flavor and just the right amount of sweetness. They are also wheat-free, gluten-free, 0g Trans Fat and non-dairy. There are tips on the bag for making a ginger cookie crust for a pie and ice-cream sandwiches. Both of the Pamela's Products cookies use rice flour as the base ingredient and contain molasses, brown sugar, cane sugar and spices. They also contain lots of organic ingredients. These cookies can be made into crumbs and used as a topping for ice cream or yogurt as well. The Ginger Mini Snapz contain 120 calories for 5 cookies and 4 grams of total fat. An added bonus to purchasing Pamela's Products cookies is that they donate to Celiac Sprue and Autism Support and Research Organizations.

Glutino Gluten-Free Wafer Cookies Lemon. If you love lemon flavor, you will absolutely love these! They are very light flaky wafer cookies which are very satisfying when you are craving lemon pie. These imported cookies are priced around $4.00 for a box is 18 wafers and the base ingredients are potato flour, cane juice, with lemon flavor. Check out their website at www.glutino.com