It worked!

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3 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp xanthan gum*
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract
zest from one regular-sized orange
1 Tbsp honey

Preheat oven to 350.

Sift together flour, salt, xanthan gum and baking powder, set aside. In a small bowl, mix together honey, orange zest, almond extract and vanilla extract until it is uniform and mildly syrupy (make sure honey is mixed in well). In a mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until soft. Add eggs one at a time and beat until mixed. Add flavors and mix together. Add dry ingredients a bit at a time until everything is mixed together. Electric mixers might get tough to use as the mixture gets more doughy-- use your hands if you have to. Mixture at the end will be solid but sticky.

Chill mixture for 2 hours. Grease cookie sheet for the cut-out cookies. Roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick and cut out cookies (I actually let the rolled mixture chill again for another 20 minutes, and then between re-rolls as needed). Also, I rolled the dough between two sheets of parchment paper which worked well and didn't stick at all. Decorate with colored sugar or sprinkles.

Bake cookies for about 10-13 minutes, basically until the edges just start getting brown. Keep an eye on them! Then just cool and serve! They might still be pretty soft when they come out of the oven but they will firm up as they cool. Then they should be crispy on the edges and softer and chewy toward the middle.


* this is hard to come by and expensive, it supposedly helps make things dough-y, and it can probably be left out without much problem, I just have a bunch left over from when I did gluten-free baking earlier