Vegan Sugar Cookies

This is my favorite vegan sugar cookies recipe- it super easy and effective for a quick healthy sugar fix. My kids love to make them because its a bit like playing with playdough- you roll the dough out and cut shapes with the cutters so its a great family activity and make great presents. Any excess from the process of making these vegan sugar cookies with the kids, you roll into little balls and press down into rounds, bake them and they also make the perfect for adult snacks.

Makes around 20 cookies

2 cups of flour (I used this one)
1/2 cup unrefined caster cane sugar*
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 cup homemade aquafaba butter (recipe here or use any vegan butter)
1 tsp vanilla powder
2 tablespoons oat or cashew milk (thick milks work best!)
pinch of salt

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Cream the aquafaba butter together with the caster cane sugar in a large bowl. You can do this by hand or with an electric mixer. Mix all dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and slowly add into the aquafaba sugar paste mixing by hand. It will become kind of a crumbly mixture, but if you add the milk it should create a dough ball, that keeps together and that you can roll out. You can always add a bit more milk if it is not soft enough to roll without it falling apart. If it is too soft to roll it successfully, place it in the fridge to firm up.

Roll the dough until your desired thickness (I like them best when they are about 0.5cm thick), cut shapes with the kids or make them into round cookies.  Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden on top, let cool down a bit and then transfer to a cooling rack. you can then decorate the cookies using Royal Aquafaba Icing.