Tag: cookies

  • Vegan Vanilla Sugar Christmas Cookies

    Vegan Vanilla Sugar Christmas Cookies

    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 @naturli 
    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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  • Easy and quick one bowl vegan chocolate chip cookies

    Easy and quick one bowl vegan chocolate chip cookies

    Ariana is a big fan of chocolate chip cookies (or should I say of chocolate?) and so is Oliver nowadays, so this recipe has been in development for the last few years. We can always make it with the ingredients available in our pantry, so there are many substitutions possible!

    3 cups oats, made into flour in a blender
    1 cup coconut oil, no need to wait for it to melt
    2 flax eggs (5 tablespoons water mixed with 2 tablespoons flax meal)
    1/2 cup unrefined cane caster sugar*
    1/4 cup  coconut sugar
    1/2 tablespoon vanilla powder
    1 teaspoon cinnamon
    1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
    1 cup (or more) chocolate chips, chunks or desired shape chocolate pieces

    Add all ingredients except the chocolate chips, into a mixer or into a bowl and mix by hand until well incorporated. Then add the chocolate chips (recipe for the homemade ones we use is available on the recipe section) or buy them- we have used these before and we liked them.

    We sometimes substitute the oats for quinoa flakes, the coconut sugar for unrefined cane sugar, sometimes we don’t use cinnamon, or we use dried fruit instead of chocolate chips and we have even used aquafaba butter (recipe available on archives) instead of the coconut oil with good results. These type of recipes, where ingredients are easily swapped are, in my opinion, the best recipes as you can never find an excuse not to make them! 😉