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With this easy vegan sugar cookie recipe, you can make sweet, buttery, delicious sugar cookies that are egg free and dairy free. These cookies are simple yet so soft and chewy. I topped these soft vegan sugar cookies with a dairy free sugar cookie icing, but these sugar cookies also tastes great without any frosting.
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These are the best vegan sugar cookies. I like making these vegan cookies around the holidays and letting friends and family help decorate them. These cookies are perfect for special occasions, holidays, or simply just to enjoy as a tasty treat.
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Ingredients for vegan sugar cookies
Vegan butter
Granulated sugar
Vanilla extract
plant based milk
All purpose flour
Baking powder
Baking soda
Salt
Ingredients for sugar cookie icing
Powdered sugar
Non-dairy milk
vanilla extract
Vegan food coloring
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Steps to make the best vegan sugar cookies
- In a bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar for about 2 minutes on medium speed until creamy.
- Add in the vanilla extract and vegan milk and mix until incorporated.
- Next add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix until thoroughly combined. The dough should be sticky to the touch.
- Mold the dough into a disk shape and cover it in plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch thick. Using cookie cutters, cut the dough into your desired shapes. Re-roll the scraps and repeat the process until all the dough is used up. Place cookie shapes on a baking sheet.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then move the cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Once the cookies have cooled completely, decorate as desired.
Steps to make sugar cookie icing
- In a mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar, and vanilla extract, non-dairy milk. Mix until fully combined. If using liquid food coloring add in a drop at a time until you reach your desired color. If the icing gets too thin add in a little more of the powdered sugar.
- Use this icing to decorate your sugar cookies once they are completely cooled.
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Other vegan cookie recipes to try
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Vegan Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup vegan butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons plant based milk
- 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
For the sugar cookie icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon plant based milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- vegan food coloring (optional)
Instructions
- In a bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar for about 2 minutes on medium speed until creamy.
- Add in the vanilla extract and vegan milk and mix until incorporated.
- Next add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix until thoroughly combined. The dough should be sticky to the touch.
- Mold the dough into a disk shape and cover it in plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch thick. Using cookie cutters, cut the dough into your desired shapes. Re-roll the scraps and repeat the process until all the dough is used up. Place cookie shapes on a baking sheet.
- Bake cookies for 10 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then move the cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Once the cookies have cooled completely, decorate as desired.
Vegan icing for sugar cookies
- In a mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar, and vanilla extract, non-dairy milk. Mix until fully combined. If using liquid food coloring add in a drop at a time until you reach your desired color. If the icing gets too thin add in a little more of the powdered sugar.
- Use this icing to decorate your sugar cookies once they are completely cooled.
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