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Easy Vegan Sugar Cookies

written by themindfulstrawberry February 15, 2018
Easy Vegan Sugar Cookies

Happy Valentine’s Day, lovelies! <3

I was up late last night baking these wonderful little sugar cookies for my loved ones today. Even though I got little sleep and burnt my finger somehow, I still feel pretty good knowing that I will make some people smile on V-Day! 🙂 Also, eating the leftover cookies kind of helps too. 😉

This recipe was taken from my previous sugar cookie recipe (you can find it here) and adapted to use plain almond milk and coconut oil (because I ran out of vegan butter and was curious how the substitute would alter the recipe). They still turned out pretty darn delicious, and I was proud of myself for baking these little bad boys all by myself AKA without my bestie who honestly does most of the work when we bake together 😛

I absolutely love the baby pink colour of these cookies (I only had to use a single drop of red food colouring — can you believe it?!) and you can achieve this colour if you separate your frosting into 2 separate bowls. I usually will add more frosting to the bowl I want to colour, and then add in some natural frosted ones to really show a nice contrast. Still working on my frosting skills, though. How do bakers get sugar cookies looking so perfeçt? It’s not fair!

Anyway, try this relatively quick and easy recipe and make someone’s day!

XOXO

Easy Vegan Sugar Cookies

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Serves: 12-15 Prep Time: 30 Minutes Cooking Time: 10 Minutes

Ingredients

For the cookies:
2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cups of organic sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup vegan butter (or 1/4 coconut oil, 1/4 butter)
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 squirt of lemon juice
1/4 cup almond milk
Desired cookie cutter shapes

For the icing:
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 tbsp. almond milk (or more if needed)
2 tbsp. vegan butter

Easy Vegan Sugar Cookies was last modified: January 2nd, 2020 by themindfulstrawberry

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.

Easy Vegan Sugar Cookies was last modified: January 2nd, 2020 by themindfulstrawberry

Easy Vegan Sugar Cookies was last modified: January 2nd, 2020 by themindfulstrawberry
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2 comments

Karen March 28, 2018 - 7:58 pm

I’m using this recipe to make Easter-themed sugar cookies. Your blog is the best! Thanks Mindful Strawberry 🙂

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themindfulstrawberry April 2, 2018 - 4:13 pm

Aw, that sounds lovely! Hope they turned out well for you Karen. XO

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