Easy Christmas Cookie Recipe: 3 Ideas to Dazzle

Being vegan is not at odds with making the richest Christmas cookies and sweets (without refined sugar). Nothing beats the aroma that fills your entire home when you bake them. Dare to make them!

• Easy (and vegetarian) Christmas cookie recipes
• 1. Snowball Christmas Cookie Recipe
• 2. Gingerbread Christmas Cookies (Gluten Free)
• 3. Vegan Christmas Cookie Recipe with Three Variations

As usual, if you’re vegan you don’t want to miss the smell of freshly baked Christmas cookies. You don’t have to. You can bake delicious Christmas cookies without milk, egg, and butter.

There are still rumors that vegan baking is very complicated and often doesn’t work. This is said to both cakes and cookies, which is why baking at Christmas can often seem inconceivable without eggs and milk. But it’s not true. You don’t even have to make “raw” cookies or some weird superfood. You can bake traditional cookies like the ones you ate as a child and neither your grandparents nor your parents will notice the difference.

EASY (AND VEGETARIAN) CHRISTMAS COOKIE RECIPES

1. SNOWBALL CHRISTMAS COOKIE RECIPE

Ingredients (for 14 balls):

• 110 g spelt flour
• 100 g non-hydrogenated organic vegan margarine
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 100 g walnuts
• 50 g xylitol powder or birch sugar (just run it through a coffee grinder)
• 1 pinch of salt

Elaboration:

1. Take the walnuts and chop half of them with a knife. Put the other half in the processor and grind them until they are powdery.
2. In a bowl, mix the flour, chopped and ground walnuts and a pinch of salt.
3. Beat the margarine with a whisk mixer until foamy.
4. Add 30 g of xylitol or powdered birch sugar and vanilla essence and mix with the blender for another 1-2 minutes.
5. Add the flour and mix everything well again. If the dough is a little sticky, don’t worry, it should look like this.
6. Now take about a teaspoon of dough and form it into a small ball. You do this with all the dough and place the balls on a baking tray lined with baking paper leaving some space between them, as they will rise a bit in the oven.
7. Preheat the oven to 160ºC and let the balls bake for about 15 minutes. Keep an eye on them because they shouldn’t turn brown.
8. After the time has elapsed, take them out of the oven and cover them in the remaining xylitol powder to turn them into real snowballs.

2. GINGERBREAD CHRISTMAS COOKIES (GLUTEN FREE)

These gingerbread Christmas cookies, with a recipe from Marketa Kadlec ova, are also gluten-free cookies. They are very spicy, and you can accompany them with a cup of tea or coffee. In this video we tell you how to prepare them:

3. VEGAN CHRISTMAS COOKIE RECIPE WITH THREE VARIATIONS

Ingredients for 40 pieces:

For the basic dough:

• 300 g spelt flour
• 200 g soft non-hydrogenated vegan organic margarine (at room temperature)
• 100 g coconut sugar
• Optional: half a teaspoon vanilla essence
• Optional: half an untreated lemon (peel)

Elaboration:

1. Briefly beat the margarine with the stick mixer, pour in the sugar and beat until foamy. If you’re using vanilla and lemon zest, add these ingredients now. Add the flour and quickly knead everything together with your hands, then form the whole dough into a large ball.
2. Leave the dumpling in the refrigerator in a Tupperware for an hour. After the time has elapsed, take only a part of the dough out of the fridge to process it. If it gets too hot, you can no longer work well.
3. Put the dough on the clean marble or a large sheet of silicone and flatten it with the rolling pin until it is about a centimeter thick. Then use the cookie cutter of your choice and make the cookies.
4. Place the cookies on a paper-lined baking tray or on a silicone sheet and bake in the preheated oven at 200°C for ten minutes. If you use a convection oven or hot air, bake the oven at a temperature of 180°C. If you want, you can bake two trays in the oven.

VARIATION 1: VEGAN NUT BISCUITS

1. For the nut cookies, use mixed nuts, which you can press onto the cookies after you’ve balled them up and flattened them a bit.
2. Bake in the center rail of the oven for 10 minutes at 180°C in an air oven or at 200°C with top and bottom heat.
3. After the time has elapsed, take the cookies out of the oven and sprinkle them with a little ground xylitol and let them cool.

VARIANT 2: VEGAN JAM BISCUITS

1. For the vegan jam biscuits, roll out the dough about 0.5cm thick and cut it with round moulds. In the middle of the cookies, poke a hole in the center of the cookies. To make the hole (about 1 centimeter in diameter) you can use the glass tube in which vanilla beans are sold. A narrow test tube would also work.
2. Biscuits with and without holes are now baked for 5 to 7 minutes at 180°C in an air oven or at 200°C with top and bottom heat.
3. Then you have to be quick: spread the cookies without holes with your favorite jam and place the cookies with a hole on top. Then sprinkle them with ground xylitol and let them cool completely.