Easy Vegan Sugar Cookies

Instructions

For the sugar cookies:

1. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F.
2. Using an electric mixer, cream the vegan butter with the organic sugar and then add the vanilla extract, lemon juice, and almond milk.
3. In another large bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, and salt.
4. Add the dry ingredients into the other bowl with the wet ingredients, mixing together until the dough becomes crumbly. If the dough is too crumbly to form a ball with your hands, add a little more almond milk.
5. Create two balls of dough and place in a covered bowl in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes (optional; but this helps the dough rise and makes the cookies super soft and airy). You can make a vegan hot chocolate while you wait! 🙂
6.  Transfer the balls of dough to a baking mat covered in flour so the dough doesn’t stick.
7. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to desired thickness (ours were about 1/4 inch thick).
8. Dip your cookie cutter into flour so it doesn’t stick and and cut out your cookies.
9. Transfer cookies to a tray lined with parchment paper.
10. Repeat this process until all dough is used up.
11. Bake in the oven for 8-9 minutes; checking cookies after 7 or 8 minutes.
12. Remove cookies from the oven when finished and allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before decorating.

For icing:

1. Prepare decorative frosting by mixing icing sugar, vanilla extract, butter and almond milk together in a bowl with an electric mixer, starting on low speed and gradually increasing speed until smooth.
2. Mixture should have a glue-like consistency, and shouldn’t be too thick. If you need to add more almond milk to thin it out, add a tiny bit at a time until you reach desired frosting consistency.
3. Separate frosting into two bowls if you want two different colours. You can also place frosting into a small ziplog bag and cut a small hole at one end to make your own piping bag. I found that the frosting came out all at once using this method and it got messy fast, so you can also just frost the cookies with a simple butter knife!

*This recipe makes about 24-30 cookies, depending on how thick you want them to be.