Stock up on baking staples and cozy up in the kitchen—’tis the season for holiday baking. Whether it’s your first year in charge of the cookie tray, or you’re just looking to vegan-ize your old favorites, never fear: We’ve rounded up 25 of our favorite vegan cookie recipes from Potluck.
Vegan Gingerbread Cookies
Try decorating these perfectly spiced cookies from I Love Vegan with vegan royal icing!
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Vegan Pumpkin Spice Cookies
Pumpkin puree and applesauce—not eggs—make these cookies from Veganosity extra dense and moist.
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Vegan Meringue Cookies
Meringues sans eggs? Yep. This recipe from It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken does it with a surprising ingredient: the liquid left over in a can of beans!
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Jamoca Almond Fudge Cookies
Nuts, chocolate and coffee. These easy cookies from Chelsea's Healthy Kitchen have it all.
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Black Sesame + Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Black sesame seeds add a pop of color, and a subtle nutty flavor, to chocolate chip cookies in this recipe from Spice and Sprout.
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Lemon Rosemary Shortbread Cookies
You can make these slightly savory cookies from The Vegan and the Chef with or without butter!
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Almond and Cinnamon Cookies
These cinnamon treats from Green Evi are a vegan take on a traditional German Christmas cookie.
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies from Connoisseurus Veg are gluten free, and better for you.
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Peanut Butter Molasses No-Bake Cookies
Blackstrap molasses is super healthy, and these six-ingredient no-bake treats fro Courtney's Cookbook are super easy!
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Triple Dark Chocolate Waffle Cookies
No oven required for these chocolate cookies from Pickles & Honey—you make them right in your waffle iron.
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Vegan Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies
These gluten-free cookies from A Saucy Kitchen are ready in just 30 minutes.
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Raw Chocolate Maca Sandwich Cookies
Pack some superfoods into your dessert with these raw, maca-laced cookies from Coconut and Berries.
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Cinnamon Roll Cookies with Cranberry Glaze
Cinnamon rolls without the rolling and cutting? Sign us up. These gluten-free cinnamon cookies from She Likes Food are topped with a cranberry glaze.
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Chickpea Coconut Cookies
A mixture of chickpea and coconut flours gives these cookies from Sugar Loves Spice a unique, not-too-sweet flavor.
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Chocolate Hazelnut Thumbprint Cookies
Hazelnut meal gives these cookies from Making Thyme for Health a nutty flavor that perfectly complements the chocolate.
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Chewy Chocolate Orange Coconut Oil Cookies
Coconut oil is a vegan baker's best friend, and these chewy cookies from Cooking LSL more than prove it.
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Chocolate Dipped Almond Shortbread Cookies
Beetific Beginnings' chocolate-dipped shortbreads are super simple and can be made gluten free!
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No-Chill Vegan Sugar Cookies
Bring these allergy-friendly sugar cookies from The Fit Cookie to the cookie exchange or holiday party—they're easy to make in big batches.
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Cashew Flour Fig Pinwheel Cookies
These pinwheels from The Organic Dietitian feature homemade fig jam and cashew flour.
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Salted Chocolate Buckwheat Cookies
We recommend including the optional coffee in these hearty buckwheat cookies from Emmylou's Kitchen.
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Pumpkin Spice Latte Cookies
Strength and Sunshine's perfectly soft PSL cookies are also grain free!
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Caramel Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Need an extra-decadent cookie for your holiday gathering? you found 'em—these caramel-stuffed chocolate chip cookies from The Frosted Vegan.
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Perfect Vegan Gingersnap Cookies
Radiant Rachels' gingersnaps are taken over the top with a creamy macadamia nut filling.
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Pumpkin & Hemp Oatmeal Cookies
There's tons of protein packed into these gluten-free pumpkin cookies with hemp seeds from Food by Mars.
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Pistachio-Crusted Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies
Pistachios and cranberries are a match made in heaven, and this recipe brings them together.
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6 Comments
Linda @ Veganosity
December 8, 2015 at 11:22 amThank you for including our pumpkin spice cookies in this wonderful cookie roundup!
Emilie @ Emilie Eats
December 8, 2015 at 2:35 pmThanks so much for this holy grail of vegan cookies!! Can’t wait to try some of them!
Courtney @ Courtney's Cookbook
December 8, 2015 at 5:31 pmWow, it’s an honor to be in such yummy company! I can’t wait to start trying even more of these!
Sarah Jane @ The Fit Cookie
December 8, 2015 at 10:36 pmThanks so much for including my sugar cookies! 🙂
Maya | Spice + Sprout
December 9, 2015 at 9:36 pmthank you so much for including my cookie recipe! <3
Asiya Subani
December 1, 2016 at 6:11 amCookies are something that I always make but never made any vegan cookies and this lovely list will surely help me to make vegan special cookies… I have bookmarked it…