Vegan Halloween Sugar Cookies
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Halloween Vegan Sugar Cookies are spooky, sweet, and 100% dairy free! Pumpkins, skeletons, and black cats are decorated with colorful royal icing. They’re perfect for parties, allergy friendly school snacks, or gifting. Soft, buttery, and delicious, there’s no way anyone will guess they’re vegan!
I love Halloween. I don’t know what it is about the holiday but I just love it. Since I work in an elementary school I get dressed up every year. Now that I have a son it’s even more fun to dress up with him and go out trick or treating.
I’m always looking for fun treats to give to my friends and family and I enjoy taking baking goods in to the kids at school as well. I usually make Halloween themed treats.
Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats are always a popular snack that’s super easy to make. While decorated sugar cookies take a lot of time these Jack Skellington Cookies are always a hit. I also really like Spider Cupcakes.
This year I decided to dress up as a baker. I figured I bake enough throughout the year that it was an appropriate costume. I have an apron with my blog’s logo on it and I wore a baker’s hat as well. I actually ended up baking Halloween cookies and passing them out at school. It was so much fun!
I know some of our kids have allergies so I decided to bake up some vegan cookies to help our kids that have milk and egg allergies.
What are vegan foods?
Vegan foods are foods that come entirely from plants and do not include any animal products or by products. For cookies that generally means no butter, no eggs, and no milk.
What are some good vegan substitutes?
- Butter: use vegan margarine, vegan butter, coconut oil, or vegetable shortening.
- Milk: soy milk, oat milk, almond milk, or coconut milk
- Eggs: applesauce, silken tofu, or mashed banana
I was hoping the cookies would taste just as good as the original sugar cookie and I wasn’t disappointed! I was actually surprised by how flavorful and delicious the vegan cookies turned out. They were slightly crisp on the edges but soft and sugary in the middle.
Vegan Halloween Sugar Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup vanilla almond milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 6 ounces vegan butter
For the royal icing:
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Karo syrup
- 4 Tablespoons vanilla almond milk
- Food coloring
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer combine the Earth Balance Spread and sugar. Beat until light and fluffy.
- Add in the baking soda and mix until blended.
- Mix in the almond milk and vanilla.
- Stir in the flour until just blended.
- Roll the dough into a ball and lift it out of the bowl. Gently roll it into a log. Wrap the log with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator and place on parchment paper. Roll the dough until it is 1/4 inch thick. Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes. Place on the parchment paper covered cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges juts begin to turn brown. Remove from oven and let rest for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- While the cookies are cooling combine the icing ingredients in a medium mixing bowl. The mixture should be fairly thick.
- Tint the icing the desired colors and pipe onto the cooled cookies.
- Store cookies in an air tight container for 1 week.
Notes
These are so cute. I really like the black cat. You did a great job decorating them.
Sugar cookies are perfect for any holiday. I am not huge into Halloween for dressing up, but how fun to get to do it with kids every year. My son always loves to tell me what the teachers were at his school!
I love that sugar cookies can be vegan too! Yours look wonderful.
Bookmarked! Excited to try these. So hard to find good vegan baking recipes!
I wonder if I can substitute the almond milk with rice milk. My son is allergic to dairy and treenuts so I would love to make these cookies for him with simple modifications.
Your cookies look great. Going to copy down that royal icing recipe. I have one that I use, but my frosting doesn’t turn out that shiny!
The cookies came out cute. 🙂 I volunteered to help w/a Halloween party today at the elementary school and the teacher dressed up. You’re right, the kids get a big kick out of it!
Happy Halloween!
I can relate to you Heather. I’ve been in the school system forever and still dress up every year. Your cookies came out so cute!
I love these! They are so cute! and I love that they are vegan too! Awesome!
I have a friend who I think is trying vegan, so this will be great for me to try! Also, going as a baker is a brilliant idea.
The skeletons are sooo cute!
Great choice! Cookies rocks on any holiday!
I’m definitely going to look into baking with Earth Balance. I’ve got to cut way back on butter – so thanks for posting this great recipe. Your cookies are so cute!!
I love sugar cookies. These look great!
What sweet looking cookies! You won’t catch me turning them down!!!
The cookies look great and I love that they’re a healthier choice!
So cute, Heather! I just don’t have the patience to decorate sugar cookies…but I envy those who can do it so well!!!
These are gorgeous Halloween treats! One of the things I enjoy about being a teacher is getting to dress up and do fun things like this too!
These are so cute and they are vegan too! I love the black cat!!
They are so cute!!! It is wonderful to see a vegan cookie recipe. Is Earth Balance not amazing? It is what we use instead of the cow stuff {:)} in our house to make food Galactosemia safe. I am sure that nobody would even think – when tasting these delicious beauties – that they are vegan, right?! Thank you for sharing! ~ Bea
LOVE that you’ve taken a gingerbread man and turned him spooky! These are cute!
These cookies look great!! I love the vegan option!! Vegan product lines are so hard to find but my friend introduced me to a company named Arbonne. I absolutely love it!! I have my own website where you can browse. Its soccora.myarbonne.com
You will love this website because it is all botanically based, gluten free, and vegan certified!!! You should check it out!!!