12 Vegan Christmas Cookies to Make this Holiday Season
’Tis the season for baking all the vegan Christmas cookies your heart desires!
If you’re ready to fill your kitchen with the smell of cinnamon, ginger, and fresh baked goodness, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve rounded up the best vegan holiday cookies, from classic sugar cookies and chewy gingerbread to chocolate-dipped and more.
Whether you’re baking for a cookie exchange, gifting to friends, or just for yourself to cozy up with a mug of hot cocoa, these recipes are perfect for bringing a little extra cheer to your holiday season.
VEGAN HOLIDAY COOKIES
1. Vegan Snowball Cookies
Make your holiday complete with these festive Vegan Snowball Cookies. They are light, crisp, buttery, and coated in sugary heaven! Plus, they require just 7 simple ingredients and take 25 minutes to make.
2. Pistachio Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Sweet, salty and loaded with flavor, these pistachio chocolate chip cookies are my new go-to. They’re soft in the center, crisp on the edges, and filled with melted chocolate and crunchy pistachios.
3. Gluten Free Spiced Christmas Biscuits
These vegan and gluten-free spiced Christmas biscuits are flavoured with warming spices and soft brown sugar. They can be rolled out and cut into any shape you like. Just decorate them with some icing and you’ve got the perfect festive treat!
4. Vegan Gingerdoodle Cookies
These Vegan Gingerdoodle (aka ginger snickerdoodles) cookies are the perfect marriage between a classic soft and chewy snickerdoodle and spiced gingerbread cookie. Made in under 30 minutes. Our vegan gingerdoodle cookie recipe is the best of both worlds swirled into one soft chewy cookie, perfect for your next cookie exchange or the holiday season.
5. Vegan Matcha Cookies
These easy Vegan Matcha Cookies are absolutely delicious little sugar cookies with a caffeinated twist with the addition of matcha (green tea powder). The matcha can also be left out for regular vegan sugar cookies (without changing the recipe!).
6. Vegan Ginger Cookies with Maple Icing
Chewy, warm, and soft, these Vegan Ginger Cookies with Maple Icing couldn’t be easier to make. They’re absolutely delicious and make the perfect holiday (or any occasion) treat.
7. Cinnamon Shortbread Cookies
Warm, comforting cinnamon and rich butter create the ideal holiday treat! These cinnamon shortbread cookies are simple to make and delicious. This sweet and buttery dessert is a fun twist on the classic shortbread cookie!
8. Death by Chocolate Cookies
Brace yourselves, because I have created an absolutely sinful cookie that you won’t believe is gluten free and vegan. Chocolate lovers will adore these death by chocolate cookies! They are so over the top and filled with chocolate flavor. It’s the perfect cookie to cure a serious chocolate craving.
9. Soft Vegan Gingerbread Cookies
These soft vegan gingerbread cookies pack all the sweet, cozy flavors you love from warm spices and molasses. Holiday baking has never been this simple!
10. Vegan Red Velvet Cookies (Gluten-Free)
Thick bakery-style vegan red velvet cookies that practically melt in your mouth. This easy one-bowl cookie recipe is full of classic tangy red velvet flavor paired with both dark chocolate and white chocolate chips.
11. Vegan Brownie Cookies
Vegan brownie cookies, also known as brookies, are a simple and delicious treat with a soft and chewy texture. This recipe is super easy to make, and they are ready in less than 30 minutes!
12. Vegan Ginger Cookies
These vegan ginger cookies are full of spices, chewy on the inside but have that perfect crispy “snap” on the edges that gives them their gingersnap name. No chill time and ready in under 30 minutes, these cookies will put anyone in the holiday spirit!
And, there you have it, 12 vegan holiday cookie recipes to make this season! Let me know if you decide to give any of these recipes a try! Or, have any other christmas cookie recipes I should include? Keep me posted!
