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December 8, 2016 134 Comments

Perfect Vegan Sugar Cookies

Name: Perfect Vegan Sugar Cookies
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 11 min
Total time: 41 min
Ingredients: 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoons ground chia or ground flax; 3 tablespoons water; 3/4 cup vegan butter; 3/4 cup white sugar; 2 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/2 teaspoon almond extract; 1 cup powdered sugar; 2-4 teaspoons plant-based milk or water; A few drops of food colouring ((optional))

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These right here, are truly the perfect vegan sugar cookies! Let me explain why:

They are super easy to prepare. Just 9 easy ingredients to make the cookie dough.
Unlike most sugar cookies, these actually taste delicious. They are soft, sweet, buttery perfection.
The dough works perfectly with cookie cutters making them a fun cookie to shape and decorate however you like!

This vegan sugar cookie dough works beautifully for any kind of cookie cutter. If you want to attempt detailed snowflake cookie cutters or simpler kid-friendly Christmas cookie cutters, these cookies will hold up. If it's not the holiday season, you can use any kind of cookie cutter to create whatever shape you like, hearts, animals, letters, or numbers, making them perfect vegan sugar cookie for any time of year!

What I love most about these vegan sugar cookies is that they are not only great for cookie cutters, but they actually taste good. I find so many cut-out cookies are just hard and flavourless. The key that I learned from Sally's Baking Addiction is to use both vanilla extract and almond extract to really enhance the flavours. The result is sweet, light, soft, buttery, and totally addictive (Sally was right about that addiction thing).

To make perfect vegan sugar cookies:

Whisk together all of the dry ingredients.

Mix together the chia or flax with the water in a small bowl and let thicken. Then add that along with the remaining wet ingredients to a bowl, and beat the wet ingredients together until they are soft and fluffy.

Then add the wet into dry and mix until a dough is formed.

For the vegan butter, I used Earth Balance Buttery Spread, but I have found that sometimes the moisture levels in vegan butters are different, so if your dough does not come together, add up to 1 tablespoon of water until the dough just comes together.

Collect the dough into a ball, and place it between two sheets of parchment paper. Roll the dough out until it's ¼ inch thick. Put the parchment paper covered dough on a baking tray and pop it in the freezer for 15 minutes, or in the fridge for 30 minutes. This cools the dough, so the cookies are easy to cut out, and they will hold their shape in the oven.

Once cooled, remove the top piece of parchment and cut out your cookies. Re-roll the remaining dough and cut out more cookies, cooling the dough if needed. Bake the cookies until just lightly golden underneath. Let cool completely before icing.

To make the icing, mix together the powdered sugar and 2 teaspoons of plant-based milk or water. Add more liquid as needed until desired consistency is reached. Mix in vegan food colouring as desired.

Use a piping bag or a plastic bag with the corner cut off to decorate your cookies as you like! Have fun 🙂

ICING TIPS:

For an extra white icing, I find using full-fat coconut milk as the liquid in the icing works best.
The icing recipe makes enough to lightly decorate the cookies. If you want to heavily decorate them (like I did), double the recipe.
Try not to eat them all before you finished icing them!

Bon appetegan!

Sam

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