Nothing better than homemade gifts for Christmas (at least I feel that way!) So the kids and I have been making bags of cookies for our friends and neighbours to gift them this Festive Season.
To be honest, it’s both for our friends benefit as much as ours as I keep the kids busy in the afternoons baking and decorating and we get homemade cookies every day 🙂
So without further delay, this is the recipe we have been using for years and we would love to share it with you! I love that we now have block vegan butters such as Naturli, as the texture of the cookies in this recipe has very much improved since we use this brand.
Of course the look of the cookies will depend on which cookie cutters you use. I have purchased these cutters from Wish that come with a stamp, so we don’t necessarily have to use icing to make the cookies look pretty. It saves time and reduces the amount of sugar used, but obviously the kids love icing cookies, so we also make lots of the plain type.
Vegan Vanilla Sugar Cookies
250gr vegan butter at room temperature. I use @naturliÂ
220gr icing sugar
375 g plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp Himalayan salt
4 tbsp plant milk
1 tsp vanilla liquid
Cream vegan butter and icing sugar until fluffy using either a manual or electric whisk . Add the other ingredients and the flour in two batches and mix until well incorporated.
Place the dough rolled in cling film in the fridge for about 1 hour to firm up.
Roll the chilled dough to 0.5/0.7cm thickness and cut shapes. If you wish the shapes to remain more or less the same size, you can plavce the cookies on teh tray into your fridge or freezer before baking.
Bake at 180 degrees until slightly golden on top. I like them crunchy so i let them cook a minute longer than necessary 😉 It’s very important that you let cool down on the baking tray for a few minutes as they will be very soft and breakable at this stage, before placing them on a cooling rack and store them in an airtight container. You can package them as needed for your gifts 🙂
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