Baking cookies without butter, eggs or dairy isn't as challenging as it seems, especially with the help of these inventive and seasonal recipes from some of our favorite bloggers. From eggnog cheesecake thumbprints to no-bake peppermint patty bars, these cookies capture the festive flavors of the season while also being completely vegan.
8 Vegan Cookie Recipes to Try
• Eggnog Cheesecake Thumbprints at The Sweet Life (pictured)
• Speculoos Spread Cookies at Have Cake Will Travel
• Pistachio Praline Linzer Cookies at Bittersweet
• Sparkly Apricot Rosemary Jewels at Spabettie
• No Bake Peppermint Patty Bars at Oh She Glows (pictured)
• Soft Double Ginger Cookies at Joy the Baker
• Cut-Out Gingerbread Cookies at Meet the Shannons
• Cream Cheese Stuffed Cinnamon Sugar Pillow Cookies at Chocolate Covered Katie
Do you have any favorite vegan cookie recipes?
Related: Banana For an Egg: Vegan Substitutions for 8 Common Baking Ingredients
(Images: The Sweet Life; Oh She Glows)
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Apologies for coming in with a troll-baiting comment, but links to Chocolate Covered Katie recipes always depress me. She's obsessed with "healthifying" everything in ways I find problematic for a few reasons--she endorses all kinds of gross chemical-y sugar substitutes, the number of substitutions she suggests in her recipes makes me wonder how much she tests them, and I don't feel right supporting a young woman's quest to cook using as few calories as possible. Plus, MANY of her recipes, including the one linked here, are ones she's taken unattributed from other blogs. I'm sorry to be a downer, and I don't have any ill will towards Katie herself, but I have a real problem with putting her blog up next to blogs like Oh She Glows or Joy the Baker that are genuinely focused on vegan baking and not crazy low calorie possibly disordered eating cookery.
These are great--thanks for posting!
These aren't vegan. There's milk and chocolate made with milk and cream cheese. My vegan friends would LOVE to eat these and these recipes seem very promising and delicious, but, unfortunately, are not vegan. Thank goodness I'm an omnivore.
Ohhh, pardon me, "cream cheese-style spread.." Nevermind...
Moodeln, that's too bad. Nothing in the recipe linked here is "chemically," and some people can't have sugar and would rather have sweets with the chemicals (for example, if I have a bunch of sugar, I get serious migraines). Chemicals aren't great, but for a once in a while treat I'll take chemicals over headaches. They're meant to be a treat, not your entire diet.
That said, thanks for these recipes, Kitchn!
Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese is probably what the "cream cheese-style spread" is referring to... http://www.amazon.com/Tofutti-Better-Than-Cream-Cheese/dp/B000O6I9XU. My boyfriend has a dairy allergy and that is what we use. Thus... VEGAN!
Vegan chocolate is available in the health/natural foods section of most grocery stores.
I've made the peppermint bars from Oh She Glows a number of times, they are absolutely delicious (and easy to make).
They're all vegan, and for the most part, with normal for my household anyway ingredients. Milk=soy milk or other non-dairy milk, cream cheese=things like toufutti (which, frankly, I like better in taste than the dairy cream cheese anyway). Easy substitutions that can make many cookie recipes vegan. I do it all the time, and break my egg/dairy allergic SO's brain with it.
Oooh. Definitely giving those peppermint patty bars a try!
My favourite cookie recipe is this one. I use more chocolate than is... TECHNICALLY recommended... and also melt extra to drizzle on top... but it's so worth it!