These easy vegan sugar cookies are every bit as delicious and rich as your classic, quintessential holiday sugar cookie but all veganized and gluten-free thanks to a mix of rice flour and coconut flour! They are tender and not too sweet, perfect for frosting, decorating or dipping into dark chocolate! Such a great easy food gift for the holiday season!

Vegan Sugar Cookies – super easy and perfect for any occasion.

These Vegan Sugar Cookies! Small crunchy delicious cookies perfect for the holidays, without any gluten or gum, soy or palm oil.



Last week was quite cloudy and dreary and my motivation was slipping. I was wondering about what to do in the new year and was coming up empty. So I was trying to veganize a few more Indian holiday sweets to keep the brain cells going.



I was working with coconut flour last week on some other Indian sweets recipes for next year’s festivals(there are so many different desserts from different parts of India!). The coconut flour was sitting out on the counter, and I had a feeling that it would work beautifully in gluten-free vegan sugar cookies.

And it did work amazingly to reduce the quantity and hence the stronger taste of brown rice flour.

These sugar cookies are crunchy, crumbly, sweet, flavored with vanilla and coated up in chocolate.

Use your favorite frosting, add sprinkles to the dough, make fun shapes!





I took a few to the Bake sale at Vegan Haven in Seattle, along with some Jar gifts and some Chewy Chocolate Chip cookies. If you picked up any of my goodies from the sale, do drop me a line:)



Pretty, small vegan sugar cookies, perfect for gifting or your holiday cookie exchange.

Ingredients for this Vegan Sugar Cookies recipe:

Brown and white rice flour: rice flour gives the vegan sugar cookies that crumbly melt in the mouth texture very similar to what cornstarch does.

rice flour gives the vegan sugar cookies that crumbly melt in the mouth texture very similar to what cornstarch does. Cornstarch: these starches are used for thickening and binding.

these starches are used for thickening and binding. Coconut flour: the best flour to use for all cookies that need to be scooped and shaped. Coconut based flour soaks up quite a lot of liquid and expands. It’s also why more flax eggs and liquid need to be used with coconut flour recipes. Keep that in mind if substituting another flour.

the best flour to use for all cookies that need to be scooped and shaped. Coconut based flour soaks up quite a lot of liquid and expands. It’s also why more flax eggs and liquid need to be used with coconut flour recipes. Keep that in mind if substituting another flour. Flax meal: I use golden flax meal for more even-looking sugar cookies.

Tips and Substitutions for this Vegan Sugar Cookies recipe:

Flour is a tricky measure to get perfectly accurate but very important when it comes to baking! If using cups, use the spoon and level method.

For decoration , dip them into melted dark chocolate or make a natural food coloring by mixing icing sugar and beet juice!

, dip them into melted dark chocolate or make a natural food coloring by mixing icing sugar and beet juice! Along with the vanilla extract, you could also add a little almond extract . Just a touch! If you use too much you will get a bit of a marzipan flavor and not everybody loves that.

. Just a touch! If you use too much you will get a bit of a marzipan flavor and not everybody loves that. You can use arrowroot starch instead of cornstarch

If you do not have coconut flour, you can use cashew flour or oat flour instead.

How to make this Vegan Sugar Cookies recipe:





1. Whisk all the dry ingredients.

2. Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl to combine.

3. Add to the dry ingredients and knead everything into a stiff dough. This dough can be refrigerated for 2 days. It probably can also be frozen.







4. Pat the dough down, roll out and cut the cookies into the desired shapes. Gather remaining dough and pat it down again to cut up cookies or shape some into balls and flatten them.







5. Chill the shaped cookies for 15 minutes in the refrigerator or 10 minutes in the freezer.







6. Bake at pre-heated 375 degrees F for 12-13 minutes. Cool completely then frost or dip in melted chocolate.







How to store vegan sugar cookies?

Should there be leftover cookies, keep them in a sealed container or cookie tin at room temperature and consume within a few days. Alternatively, store them in a sealed container in the fridge where they will stay good for up to a week.





Can these cookies be made in advance?

This dough can be refrigerated for 2 days. You can probably also freeze the cookie dough and then let it thaw overnight in the fridge and then use it as normal.

You can also freeze the baked cookies. Freeze them before frosting and then thaw them overnight in the fridge and then frost them.



