Gluten-Free Sandwich Cookies

Gluten-free sandwich cookies are a sweet treat designed for those avoiding gluten, featuring two crisp biscuits sandwiching a vanilla cream filling. They aim to replicate the familiar texture and taste of classic sandwich biscuits like a cream-filled cookie, using alternative flour blends in place of wheat.

These products cater to the growing demand for gluten-free options that don’t compromise on indulgence. While they are made without wheat, they are still a processed sweet biscuit and are typically enjoyed as an occasional treat rather than an everyday food.

In Australia, gluten-free biscuits and cookies are stocked in the health food or free-from aisle of most supermarkets, alongside a growing range of specialty dietary products.

Produced
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How it's made

A wheat-free flour blend — typically combining rice flour, tapioca starch, and potato starch with binding agents — is mixed with sugar, fat, and flavourings to form a biscuit dough. The dough is shaped, baked until crisp, then cooled. A vanilla-flavoured cream filling is prepared separately and piped or spread between pairs of biscuits before packaging.

Nutrition (per 100g)

Energy 500kcal
Protein 3.1g
Carbs 70.9g
Fat 22.2g
Fibre 1g Sugar 43.9g
Mass Distribution

3 cookies is about 44 g — roughly 220 kcal of this.

What it costs the planet (per kilo)

Carbon ≈2.12kg
Freshwater ≈256.12L
Land ≈4.78

≈ Estimated — worked out from a category-typical value further up its supply chain. Where this comes from →

Where it comes from

In the kitchen

Used as

packaged snack cookie

Goes well with
milk coffee vanilla ice cream

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Where this data comes from

Nutrition data from

USDA

How it was calculated

SR Legacy

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