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Sugar Cookie Recipe, Vegetarian or Vegan
Rich, Festive Sugar Cookies, Classic Holiday Cookie Recipe
Classic Holiday Cookie Recipe: Making your favorite holiday cookies vegan is simple and easy with vegan margarine and egg replacer!
Go wild with the sprinkles! After baking allow the cookies to cool and then glaze your cookies and decorate them with sprinkles, or ice them with colored icing. Read the ingredients of any decorations you buy carefully; some have beeswax or other non-vegan ingredients.
24-36 large cookies. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes. If you don't have egg replacer use 2 Tbsp. non-dairy yogurt mixed with 1 1/2 tsp. organic cornstarch instead.
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Vegan Cookie Ingredients:
- 1 cup Earth Balance or other vegan margarine
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp egg replacer mixed with 2 Tbsp non-dairy milk
- OR: 2 Tbsp non dairy milk + 1 Tbsp lemon juice + 1 Tbsp corn starch
- Grated zest from one lemon
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 2 1/2 cups white all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
Ovo-Lacto Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- Zest from one lemon
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 2 1/2 cups white all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
Glaze Ingredients:
- 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 2-4 Tbsp almond milk or dairy milk
- 1/2 tsp almond or lemon extract or 1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:
- Mix flour and salt in a small bowl and set aside
- Cream together Earth balance or butter, sugar, egg or egg replacer mixture, lemon zest, and almond extract in a large bowl
- Beat flour mixture into butter mixture until thoroughly combined
- Divide and shape dough into two discs
- Place dough into an airtight container and refrigerate up to 3 days until you are ready to roll the cookies out
- When your are ready to shape the cookies, line your cookie sheets with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- Take one disc of dough at a time out of the refrigerator. If the dough is crumbly it is okay to knead it a little bit until the dough is pliable enough to roll
- Using your favorite cookie cutters, cut the dough into fun and festive shapes
- Carefully place the cookies on a prepared cookie sheet, gather the dough scraps into a ball, and roll out and cut again. Repeat with second disc
- Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes until just barely golden at the edges.
- Cool the cookies completely on a rack. If there are any broken or overbaked cookies, hide the evidence by eating them immediately
- Mix glaze ingredients, adding almond milk one Tbsp at a time until the glaze is just thick enough to spread but not thin enough to be runny
- Spread glaze on cookies and decorate as simply or elaborately as you desire
- Allow glaze to dry completely before storing cookies in an airtight container