Is it really Christmas if you can’t smell the sweet scent of baked pastries and cookies? If you love baking, then the Christmas holiday is definitely a pure joy for you. You can decorate your pastries and be as creative as you want with them! And if most of your family members or guests are on a plant-based diet, then here are 26 fun and jolly vegan Christmas cookie recipes everyone will love! See other vegan Christmas recipes and chewy vegan cookie recipes.
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26. Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
These Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, made with a soft and simple dough, are perfect for your festive baking! Chocolate and delicious, they make for the ideal Christmas cookies!
I absolutely adore Chocolate Crinkles during the Christmas season. These extra-soft and fudgy cookies are simply delightful when dipped in powdered sugar and baked – it is truly a treat to love!
Creating an attractive appearance is effortless: Simply ensure the coating of powdered sugar is sufficiently thick before baking and the cookies will become delightfully crinkled during the baking process.
25. Soft Cherry Chocolate Chip Shorbread Cookies Recipe
Delightful soft shortbread cookies with cherries and chocolate chips will become one of your favorite holiday cookies! If you’re looking for a great addition to your Christmas cookie plates, these cookies are for you!
In most shortbread cookies recipes you’ll find three main ingredients: butter, sugar, and flour. The shortbread cookie recipe below still has all that extraordinary butter flavor and also includes cherries.
The cherries and chocolate chips pair beautifully in a buttery, shortbread cookie. Not only are they pretty, but they are really, really tasty and extremely simple to make.
On Christmas Eve I always like to make different recipes than last Christmas. I have here other Christmas cookies recipes like but this year I want to make these cherry shortbread cookies for my Christmas Dinner table. I’m always adding more and you should too!
24. Easy Holiday Sprinkle Cookies Recipe
Sprinkle cookies are an easy and fun recipe that is perfect for holidays and any kids birthday party. They are perfectly chewy, soft and thick with a buttery consistency. These cookies are every kids dream!!
This was the first time that I made sprinkle cookies and now they become one of my kids favorite cookies recipe. I made them for our Christmas dinner table. It’s that time of year where if you’re anything like me you feel like your kitchen has turned into a cookie and desserts factory.
Sprinkle cookies aren´t just for Christmas! These are cookies that can be made and enjoyed all year long. You can make these festive for Easter, Halloween, St. Patricks Day, or any other holiday you can think of by getting creative with your sprinkle choice. I think they go well at a kids birthday party. They will love them!!
23. Perfect Vegan Sugar Cookies
Behold, the quintessential vegan sweet biscuits. Here’s what sets them apart:
Their preparation is a breeze, involving a mere nine straightforward components for the dough. These aren’t your typical sweet biscuits—they’re an indulgence of softness, sweetness, and a butter-like richness despite being entirely plant-based. The malleability of this dough is a dream for crafting various shapes, whether for intricate winter designs or simple, playful figures for all occasions. This dough stands its ground with any cookie press, so whether you’re aiming for elaborate snowflake designs during the festive season or opting for everyday shapes like hearts, fauna, alphabets, or digits, these sweet treats are a versatile choice for any celebration, any time of the year.
22. Mincemeat Cookies
Let’s explore a confection that brings a classic British holiday dessert into the realm of baked treats. Imagine a cookie bursting with the festive flavors of juicy currants, rich brandy, sweet candied peels, and aromatic spiced apples, all sweetened with dark brown sugar for a deep, molasses-like richness. These cookies are a novel and delightful addition to any celebratory assortment.
21. Matcha Spritz
Matcha imparts a unique earthy flavor, with subtle nutty and bitter notes that are usually balanced with sweetness in teas and desserts. These cookies, with their naturally pale green hue, bring an unconventional yet festive twist to the holiday table. Soft dough that requires piping allows for creative shapes—think chocolate-dipped lines or adorable wreaths ready to adorn your Christmas tree.
20. Christmas British Flapjacks
For those seeking a break from the ordinary, British flapjacks offer a chewy and adaptable option. They’re a canvas for a variety of mix-ins to suit the season. Don’t be daunted by the list of ingredients; it’s flexible. For a personal touch, why not mix in pecans, swap figs for dried apricots, and, for a spirited twist, a splash of brandy?
19. Chocolate Amaretti Cookies
These cookies are reminiscent of a wintry day spent cozily indoors. They’re a mature take on the holiday cookie, integrating crushed amaretti for an authentic almond essence, avoiding the pitfalls of almond extract’s potential artificiality. The added liqueur ensures the flavor is pleasantly subtle. For a child-friendly variant, classic chocolate crinkle cookies are a surefire delight.
18. Red Velvet Cookies
Red velvet cookies may not evoke the traditional holiday palate, but their vibrant hue is undeniable in enlivening any collection of sweet treats. A simple recipe that utilizes cake mix and white chocolate chips achieves a festive red and white motif. For added holiday cheer, consider folding in some colorful sprinkles to the dough.
17. Palmiers
Picture a delightful pastry that’s both crunchy and sweet, yet unexpectedly simple to create. With just a quartet of ingredients and a quarter-hour of your time, they materialize. Opt for a pre-made puff pastry, lavish it with a sugary butter glaze, and roll it into shape. For an added twist of festivity, a dash of cinnamon will do the trick.
16. “Candy” Bars
Transform a simple sugar cookie dough into a base for creativity. Bake in a pan as usual, and consider folding in pecans, chocolate chips, or zesty citrus. The excitement builds once they cool: slather on a layer of salted caramel, then go wild with toppings like nuts, pretzels, coconut, and a dark chocolate drizzle. For variation, prepare a second batch and opt for a nut butter or chocolate hazelnut spread with dried fruit and a white chocolate cascade.
15. Cranberry Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies
Presenting the ultimate plant-based treat: Vegan Cranberry Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies, a delightful blend of tangy dried cranberries, aromatic orange zest, and luscious dark chocolate chunks! These cookies, free from dairy and eggs, boast a perfect contrast with their chewy middles and golden-brown edges that you’re bound to adore.
Discover the recipe below for these tantalizing cookies that combine the best of sweet and citrus flavors with a chocolatey twist. They’re an excellent fusion of my previous creations—imagine the classic vegan chocolate chip cookie merging with the zesty orange cardamom sugar cookie, now reimagined with the added tang and texture of dried cranberries and the indulgent melt-in-your-mouth dark chocolate.
14. Italian Fig Cookies
Set out to dazzle with this sophisticated recipe. Despite the long list of 20 ingredients and several steps, the result—a soft vanilla cookie filled with rum-infused figs, citrus zest, and almonds—is absolutely worth it. You can easily source candied peel and swap dates for currants as needed. While the process may seem daunting at first, many of the ingredients are likely in your pantry. Once finished, a zesty lemon glaze crowns these cookies, making them as photogenic as they are delicious.
13. Pistachio and Cranberry Vegan Christmas Cookies
Vegan Christmas Cookies studded with pistachios, cranberries and can be made into festive raspberry linzer cookies! Easy and made with common pantry staples.
12. Festive Vegan Chocolate Butter Cookie Recipe
These festive vegan chocolate (and cherry) butter cookies are the perfect gift to impress anyone and everyone. They are suuuuuper easy to make and take little time to whip up.
11. Easy Homemade Vegan Danish Butter Cookies
Vegan Danish butter cookies – these sweet treats are super quick and easy to make and make great gifts! They are also the perfect companion for a cup of tea or hot chocolate.
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These Vegan Almond Cookies are a revelation and I know that you will love them. Made with just 5 ingredients, they look and taste the same as their counterparts which are made using egg whites. To make them, I have adapted one of my most popular recipes, Gluten-Free Almond Cookies, by replacing the egg whites with aquafaba.
9. Vegan Gingerbread Cookies
These vegan gingerbread cookies are both delicious and fun to make! Soft, chewy, and packed with spices, they’re the perfect treat for celebrating the holidays.
8. The Best Vegan Sugar Cookies
These vegan sugar cookies are as pretty as they are delicious! Sweet, tender, and topped with tintable glaze, they’re fun to make and perfect for everything from celebrations to everyday snacking.
7. Vegan Gluten Free Pistachio Cookies
Do you like pistachios? Well, who doesn’t! These little nuts are many people’s favourite and they have a wonderful flavour all of their own. Pistachios are actually a member of the cashew family, although the taste and texture are quite different. They are great to use in holiday baking – especially cookies! These vegan gluten free pistachio cookies are going to be a staple Christmas cookie for all your Christmas baking lists.
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These amazing Oil-Free Vegan Gingerbread Cookies are a healthier version of this classic cookie. You won’t believe there’s no butter or oil! Made with whole grain flour, molasses, and the perfect amount of spices – you’re going to love them!
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This is my family’s classic gingerbread cookie that’s become a holiday tradition! These vegan gingerbread cookies come out perfectly soft in the middle, with a little crisp on the edges. They’re packed with delicious ginger, nutmeg, and perfectly spiced!
4. Vegan Mint Chocolate Cookies
Vegan mint cookie sandwiches with chocolate oreo-like cookies and a sweet peppermint cream. Simple and tastes like childhood!
3. Vegan Thumbprint Cookies
These vegan thumbprint cookies are made with pecans and coconut for twist on the classic. Bonus: they’re gluten-free, oil-free and refined sugar-free!
2. Italian Wedding Cookies Recipe
The best vegan Italian wedding cookies recipe a.k.a. Christmas snowball cookies made with walnuts and hazelnuts then coated in fluffy powdered sugar just like a snowball. One bowl, only 7 ingredients and ready in 30 minutes start to finish.
1. Vegan Shortbread Cookies Recipe
Easy vegan shortbread cookies recipe with dark chocolate chunks, vanilla and cultured vegan butter. Also known as European sugar cookies or Christmas biscuits, they make perfect treats to dunk in your coffee or to pack nicely as holiday gifts. Simple, delicious, perfectly crunchy, crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth dairy free treats!
26 Healthy Vegan Christmas Cookies
Spread the joy with 26 best vegan Christmas cookie recipes that are as fun and jolly as the holiday season itself!
Ingredients
- Pistachio and Cranberry Vegan Christmas Cookies
- Festive Vegan Chocolate Butter Cookie
- Homemade Vegan Danish Butter Cookies
- Tasty Cranberry, Pistachio, and Lemon Vegan Biscotti At Home
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