Vegan Apple Pie Sugar Cookies
These delicious apple pie sugar cookies merge two amazing holiday classics into 20 scrumptious golden cookies. The sugar cookie texture is buttery, sweet, moist, and chewy. They’re golden on the outside, and soft on the inside.
Ingredients
Cinnamon Apples
- ⅓ cup peeled and sliced honey crisp apples
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
Vegan Apple Pie Sugar Cookies
- ½ cup melted vegan butter
- 1 cup organic cane sugar
- 2 tablespoon flax seed meal + 4 tablespoon hot water or one regular egg
- 1 teaspoon unsweetened almond or oat milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ¼ cup regular or gluten free all purpose flour If gluten-free, I recommend King Arthur Measure for Measure gluten-free flour. Please don't substitute any other flour such as almond flour, baking flour, etc.
Vegan Vanilla Icing
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened almond or oat milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
Vegan Apple Pie Sugar Cookies
- Preheat oven to 425. In a small bowl, prepare the flax eggs by mixing the flax seed meal and warm water. Set aside. A gel will form.
- Prepare the apples by bringing a small saucepan sprayed with nonstick spray to medium heat. Once warm, add the peeled and sliced apples and season with cinnamon. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mix the melted vegan butter, sugar, flax eggs, almond milk, vanilla, baking powder, and salt. Add the flour and mix until a cookie dough forms. Fold in the apples.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Use your hands to roll about a tablespoon each of cookie dough into balls. Place onto the cookie sheet about 1 ½ inch apart. You should have about 20 cookies.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the cookies are golden on the edges. While the cookies are baking, make the icing by using a whisk or electric mixer to mix 1 tablespoon (15 ml) of almond milk with the confectioners’ sugar. Allow the cookies to cool, drizzle the icing over them and serve
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 130kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 1gFat: 5g
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Riasha says
Hi. Can I use honey instead of sugar?
JillianGlenn says
It will change the texture. If you're looking for an alternative to cane sugar, I'd try coconut sugar.
Trisha says
What’s the least amount of sugar you think I could use and these still taste edible? I’m wanting to make a cookie for our 18 month old and we don’t add sugar to any of her foods. Thank you!
JillianGlenn says
I've done it with 3/4 a cup of sugar and it still tastes delicious! Hope this helps!
Prita says
Hi! Can I use non-nut based milk instead? What other type of milk will keep the texture best? We have a nut allergy in the family. Thanks!
Jillian Glenn says
Absolutely! Oat milk would work great in this recipe!
Kay says
The icing is odd for an apple pie cookie so I omitted it, and tripled and chopped the apples for more even distribution. I also used 2 eggs instead of flax, since I’m dairy-free, not vegan. They came out great!