To bake your own vegan biscuits is good on many fronts. First of all, they are biscuits! Secondly, you forgo plastic packaging. Thirdly, these biscuits won’t have palm oil, which harms the habitats of orangutans and other endangered species. All you need to bake your own biscuits is a few wholesome ingredients, a mixing bowl, a wooden spoon and an oven! Here are some simple affordable recipes to get you started.
Use palm-oil-free vegan butter, and keep biscuits away from pets due to chocoate, nutmeg etc. Never give birds leftover cookies (or stale crusty bread, as it can choke). See how to help our garden birds
Fantastic Vegan Cookies shares 60 wonderful recipes for mouthwatering cookies/biscuits, in every flavour imaginable. From fruit-studded confections to no-bake delights, you’ll also find bar bakes and gooey chocolate treats. Recipes include:
- Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies
- Citrus Sandwich Cookies
- Cranberry Date Cookies
- Piña Colada Cookies
- Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies
- Oatmeal Choc Chip Cookies
- Cookie Butter Bars
Jammy Vegan Biscuits (The Veg Space) are like a homemade jammy dodger. The biscuit dough shortbread is nice and crumbly, top with cherry jam.
Vegan Ginger Cookies (Crowded Kitchen) are made with vegan butter and spices, rolled in sugar. Crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside!
Blood Orange Linzer Cookies (Short Girl, Tall Order) are cute and colourful, made with almond flour. Heart-shaped Linzer cookies are popular for Christmas, around the world.
Vegan Gingerbread Cookies (Addicted to Dates) are soft and chewy, with a hint of orange zest and warming spices, coated in homeless eggless royal icing. That central gingerman looks a bit angry!
Vegan Toffee Apple Shortbread (Addicted to Dates) is much better for your teeth than toffee apples! This caramel slice is based on the popular millionaire shortbread, but this one is plant-based. The recipe condensed grated apple, cinnamon, palm-oil-free vegan butter and vegan condensed milk. A rich and sweet treat.
Make Your Own Vegan Shortbread
Shortbread is a traditional Scottish biscuit, which often does the rounds at Christmas. Sold in tartan tins, the ingredients are not very good: white sugar, butter (probably from factory farms) and plain flour. Obviously it’s not meant to be health food, but it’s far tastier, healthier and kinder to make your own shortbread. Although there are some vegan shortbreads on sale, nearly all of them have palm oil (which harms orangutan habitats). Vegan Shortbread (The Veg Space) make two flavours of ‘buttery’ shortbread with one batch of dough. Choose from lemon poppyseed or macadamia & choc chip (keep away from pets, macadamia nuts and chocolate are both toxic).
The Best Brands of Wholesome Biscuits
These biscuits are all unique from others, in that they are both vegan and free from palm-oil. You can recycle any packaging with household waste or at supermarket bag recycling bins.
- Mr Organic Multi-Grain Biscuits are made with wholesome flax and chia seeds, crunchy and baked to perfection. Also in orange cocoa and cocoa.
- Rhythm 108 tea biscuits are made in the Swiss Alps from oats and coconut sugar. Each bag has 20 biscuits. Choose from coconut crunch, almond biscotti, lemon ginger chia or double chocolate hazelnut.
- Seggiano offers organic wholegrain biscuits from Italy, made with stone-pressed organic kamut and sunflower oil. These are minimally sweetened and yeast-free.
