This super-simple oatmeal cookie recipe (Ela Vegan) is easy to make, just 4 ingredients. Offering various add-on flavours, the basic recipe just needs oats, nut butter, maple syrup and ground flax seed (which with water makes an ‘egg). You can add baking soda, to make them less dense.
Read up on keeping people & pets safe in the kitchen (many foods including dried fruits, coffee, chocolate and nuts are unsafe around animal friends).
single-serve vegan cookie recipes
Single-serve cookies are ideal for people who live alone (or as a couple) or for anyone who has a sweet tooth, and may be in danger of devouring the entire batch in one go! These recipes ensure you can still treat yourself, but not with 5000 calories!
Single-serve vegan cookies (Peanut Butter Plus Chocolate) are super-simple to make. Choose from 4 flavours: peanut butter, chocolate chunk with flaky sea salt, chocolate hazelnut espresso or birthday cake sugar cookies with sprinkles. Also try a recipe for a single-serve chocolate chip cookie.
one-bowl almond flour cookies
These almond flour cookies (ElaVegan) are easy to make in one bowl, you can even freeze the dough and bake them later, then stud with chocolate chips or other flavours. Almond flour is made simply by grinding blanched almonds to a flour, making a nice high-protein ingredients.
You may have heard that a few plant foods (including almonds) are unethical to consume. The reason behind this is that nearly all almonds grown worldwide are farmed in California (where they use a colossal amount of water in a state that is prone to drought). Also big corporate farms use pesticides that lead to monoculture orchards, so bees get sick. So buy almonds from Europe that don’t farm in the same harmful manner.
These almond cookies (Rainbow Nourishments) taste like almond croissants and only need a few simple ingredients including sustainable almonds, vegan butter, brown sugar and optional almond extract.
homemade ginger-molasses vegan cookies
These ginger-molasses cookies (Short Girl, Tall Order) are warm and gooey, and an ideal winter treat, flavoured with molasses (iron!) and chocolate. The recipe makes one big or two small cookies, cooked in mini skillets. The recipe uses light molasses (blackstrap is too bitter) so sub with golden syrup and for a local alternative to cranberries, try cherries, apricots or blueberries.
The recipe uses vegan butter and brown sugar, to produce warm gooey cookies that are great fresh (cooled) from the pan. They are bound with a ‘flax egg’ (whisking up ground linseeds with water). Flavoured with real vanilla, ginger spice and cinnamon, serve with vegan vanilla ice-cream.
pretty homemade ‘carrot cake’ vegan cookies
Who’s first to the biscuit jar? Most biscuits on sale are sold in plastic packaging and those that are vegan often have palm oil. These carrot cake cookies (Rainbow Nourishments) only need a few ingredients and are made in one bowl. And taste just like real carrot cake!
where to buy palm-oil-free vegan biscuits
If you like to keep some ready-made cookies in the jar, here are a few brands that are not just vegan, but also free from palm oil. Recycle soft plastic packaging at supermarket bag bins.
- The Beginnings is a Latvian brand that makes healthy cookies. Flavours include caramel oat, almond pecan, blackcurrant, almond orange and coconut ginger. This company also makes healthy flapjacks.
- Snacks & More offers oat cinnamon, coconut vanilla and cocoa tahini biscuits, along with range of biscuits for children in fun animal shapes.
- Mr Organic makes biscuits in three flavours: chocolate chip, chocolate orange and double chocolate.
- Rhythm 108 is a Swiss brand that offers coconut crunch, almond biscotti and lemon ginger chia biscuits, along with softer hazelnut chocolate praline and chocolate peanut butter.