Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth with These Vegan Cookie Recipes
Baking a cookie without butter can seem intimidating because butter gives cookies a moist texture and rich flavor that we all love in our favorite sweet treat.
But thanks to the ever-growing popularity of plant-based eating, you do not need eggs or butter to make delicious vegan cookies. These cookies are easier to nail than ever. There are plenty of butter replacements, so if you are in the mood for an easy sweet vegan treat baking, these 15 vegan cookie recipes will cover every craving you could possibly have.
1. Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
A cookie list would be remiss without the classic, everyone’s-favorite chocolate chip cookies. The vegan version is addictive, with soft, chewy centers and slightly crispy edges. These vegan cookies have zero animal-based ingredients and instead rely on nut butter and coconut oil.
The coconut oil acts as fat in this recipe and gives the cookie its moisture, texture, and richness. Meanwhile, the creamy almond butter contributes a bit of fat and flavor to the cookies. You will also need vegan chocolate chunks/chips because some regular chocolates contain milk.
2. Salted Caramel Pecan Cookies
A homemade caramel sauce can set a cookie like the salted caramel pecan cookies apart. The cookie base is made with raw cashews. It is pulsed in a food processor until it resembles coarse flour.
You can use ghee or coconut oil as the fat that binds all the wet and dry ingredients together. It results in the best-tasting cookie with the best texture. Once the cookie is baked, top it off with sea salt and caramel sauce. The trifecta is absolutely to die for.
3. Banana Oatmeal Cookies
Some people really love bananas in their desserts, and if you are one of them, a vegan banana oatmeal cookie is right up your alley. These cookies are easy to whip up and ideal for breakfast or dessert.
This cookie is a blend of vegan butter, sugar, mashed banana, flour, rolled oats, salt, cinnamon and cloves. The result? Soft and chewy cookies packed with banana flavor. It is important to use ripe bananas, ones with lots of spots. They add intense banana flavor and moisture to the cookie.
4. No-Bake Cookies
If you do not have an oven or it is too hot to use one, you always have a no-bake option. You can flavor your no-bake cookies however you like, but a chocolate and peanut butter combination will always hit the right spots.
All you have to do is stand by the stove and stir the cookie mixture containing coconut oil, peanut butter, syrup, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, salt, and rolled oats. You can taste-test and adjust the flavor according to your liking.
5. Peanut Butter Cookies
With 5 simple ingredients, you can make a delicious peanut butter cookie with a few fun flavor variations. They are perfect for the holidays or whenever you need a sweet treat.
There are no eggs, dairy, or butter, but you need peanut butter, flaxseed meal, maple syrup, almond flour, and baking soda for soft, chewy cookies. You can customize the flavor of your cookies with chocolate chips, pretzels, or fruit jams. Cleaning up is easy as well, as you only need one bowl to mix all the ingredients.
6. Gingersnap Cookies
Gingersnap cookies have chew, crunch, spice, and everything nice. They are a perfect holiday cookie: full of warm spices that snap when you bite into them. You start by making the cookie dough.
Cream vegan butter and brown sugar and add molasses and vanilla extract. Then add all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt, ground ginger, cinnamon, allspice and cloves. Combine the butter and flour mixture with non-dairy milk. Bake the cookie dough and serve.
7. Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
If you are craving something sweet and have 20 minutes to spare, you can make vegan oatmeal raisin cookies. They are soft, chewy, and filled with cinnamon flavor and oat crunch.
The secret ingredient for soft and chewy cookies is applesauce. The sauce binds all the cookie ingredients and adds moisture to these vegan cookies. This sauce, combined with the vegan butter, results in a perfectly crispy outside with a melt-in-your-mouth caramel center cookie.
8. Lemon Cookies
Cookies can sometimes get a bad rap for being cloying, but luckily, there are so many cookie recipes that have the perfect balance of sweet and tart, like lemon cookies. They are soft and moist with a perfectly crispy outside and a bright taste, thanks to fresh lemon juice and zest.
The cookies are rolled in powdered sugar to create a delightfully sweet and citrus blend. For this cookie, almond flour is better than other flour as its flavor complements the lemon.
9. Snowball Cookies
Snowball cookies are rolled in powdered sugar to resemble a snowball and are ideal for Christmas. These cookies are buttery and full of pecans. You can make a big batch, freeze them, and enjoy them slowly throughout the Christmas month.
Start by creaming vegan butter and powdered sugar. Beat in vanilla, then add the flour and pecans and combine. Form a cookie dough that is tablespoon-size-scoop big and bake them. Once cooled, roll in powdered sugar and enjoy.
10. Red Velvet Cookies
Red Velvet cake is a classic, beloved dessert, but if you prefer cookies over cake, vegan red velvet cookies will satisfy your cookie and red velvet craving all at once. They are also perfect for Valentine’s Day.
These cookies have a crispy outside and gooey and soft middles: the perfect combo of textures that everyone loves. You can use plant-based milk or flax egg to bind all the ingredients together. They are also neutral in flavor and do not affect the taste of the cookies.
11. Snickerdoodle Cookies
Snickerdoodles have nothing to do with a Snickers chocolate bar. They are German cinnamon cookies that are pillowy soft, and puffy with an irresistible cinnamon sugar coating.
The key to good vegan snickerdoodles is that they need to be soft, which means you cannot bake them too long. Unlike other vegan cookies, this cookie requires cream of tartar. It makes the cookies soft, chewy, and tangy. You can leave it out, but it will not have the distinct flavor and texture of snickerdoodle cookies.
12. Sugar Cookies
Sugar cookies are not only delicious but making them can be a fun activity you do with your kids. These cookies come in different shapes and colors thanks to the cookie cutter and icing.
You combine vegan butter, cream, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, pumpkin puree, dry ingredients (flour, cornstarch, salt, baking soda, baking powder), and almond milk until everything is well incorporated. Freeze the cookie dough and then bake. Once baked, add frosting.
13. Carrot Cake Cookies
Carrot cake is always a good idea. Like carrot cake, carrot cake cookies are soft, moist, and filled with warm, spiced flavor. The walnuts or pecans add a nutty crunch, while the cream cheese frosting adds a little tang.
These cookies are hearty enough for brunch, afternoon snack, breakfast, and dessert. You need to combine grated carrots, flax egg, flour, rolled oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, almond butter, and sugar. Once combined, form cookie dough and bake it.
14. Meringue
A traditional meringue is typically made from whipped egg whites and sugar, but for a vegan version, you can replace the eggs with aquafaba, the liquid from a can of chickpeas.
Once you beat the liquid with sugar and cream of tartar, it forms into stiff white peaks used to make the meringues. These cookies are sweet, airy, light, crispy, and void of chickpea flavor because once baked, all traces of chickpea flavor vanish.
15. Biscotti
For a little cookie variation, you can always whip up a batch of crunchy Italian biscotti. These cookies are perfect for dunking in a cup of coffee or with a glass of sweet wine.
They are not like your typical soft and chewy cookie at all. Instead, they are hard and crunchy. They are baked twice and made with the usual cookie ingredients.
You can add any toppings you like, such as almonds and dried cranberries, to your cookie dough before baking for added flavor.
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