27 Vegan Christmas Cookies

1. Vegan Gingerbread Cookies

Rich with molasses and warm spices, these gingerbread cookies are a holiday staple and one of my top Christmas cookies every year. Cut them into people, stars, or trees, and decorate them however you like!

Vegan Gingerbread Cookies

5 from 1 vote

Soft in the middle, crisp on the edges, and full of rich molasses and warm spices, this vegan gingerbread cookies recipe is the ultimate holiday treat, with no puffing up or spreading!

Vegan Gingerbread Cookies

2. Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies

These eggless gingerbread crinkle cookies have warm spices, molasses, and brown sugar in a soft, chewy center, with a sweet, crackly sugar crust on the outside. They’re a fun pick if you love gingerbread and crinkle cookies equally.

Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies (Eggless!)

5 from 1 vote

These vegan gingerbread crinkle cookies are soft and chewy inside, with warm spices, molasses, and brown sugar, and a sweet, crackly powdered sugar coating.

Gingerbread Crinkle Cookies

3. Gingerbread Oatmeal Cookies

These cookies are a mash-up of two holiday classics: gingerbread and oatmeal. They’re molasses-rich, spiced, and chewy, and you can make the dough a couple of days ahead.

Gingerbread Oatmeal Cookies

5 from 3 votes

These gingerbread oatmeal cookies are soft and chewy inside with crisp edges and loaded with warm spices and molasses for a great holiday treat!

Gingerbread Oatmeal Cookies

4. Triple Ginger Cookies

Crispy on the outside and chewy in the middle, these molasses-rich ginger cookies (aka gingersnaps) are a must for any ginger lover. I use fresh, ground, and candied ginger for triple the flavor.

Triple Ginger Cookies

5 from 79 votes

Use a combination of freshly grated, ground, and candied ginger to make perfectly spiced triple ginger and molasses vegan ginger cookies with crisp edges and a soft and chewy middle (aka gingersnaps!) – perfect for the holidays and ready in just 30 minutes!

Triple ginger cookies

5. Vegan Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Fudgy, chocolatey, and dusted in snowy powdered sugar, these crinkle cookies are a holiday classic. They’re simple to make with zero eggs or dairy and look so festive on a cookie plate.

Vegan Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

5 from 36 votes

Rich, fudgy vegan chocolate crinkle cookies are a classic holiday crowd-pleaser and so simple to prepare with zero eggs or dairy this holiday season!

Vegan Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Recipe

6. Lemon Crinkle Cookies

My lemon crinkle cookies take 6 ingredients and one bowl, with no chilling required. They’re soft, chewy, and sweet-tart, and they look so pretty next to the chocolate and gingerbread crinkles.

Lemon Crinkle Cookies

5 from 2 votes

These 6-ingredient, one-bowl lemon crinkle cookies are soft, chewy, and so tasty! They don't require any chilling and are ready in about 30 minutes.

Lemon Crinkle Cookies

7. Vegan Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

These red velvet crinkle cookies from my other site, Food Sharing Vegan, combine a classic crinkle texture with a deep red color that’s perfect for the holidays. They’re soft and take about 20 minutes of prep.

Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

This Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies recipe is the best! They’re simple to make, only take 20 minutes of prep, and come out perfectly soft! Make these cookies for your holiday dessert this year!

Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

8. Snowball Cookies

The holidays wouldn’t be complete without ‘buttery’, melt-in-your-mouth snowball cookies. They take just 4 ingredients and one bowl, and you can switch up the flavor with pecans, peppermint, or lemon.

Snowball Cookies

4.80 from 29 votes

Snowball cookies without nuts are a holiday classic. They’re ‘buttery’, melt-in-your-mouth, and rolled in powdered sugar, with just 5 ingredients and one bowl. Entirely dairy-free and vegan!

Snowball Cookies

9. Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

With a tender shortbread base and colorful jam centers (use any jam you like!), thumbprint cookies are a beautiful addition to cookie swaps, gift boxes, and Santa’s plate.

Raspberry Jam Thumbprint Cookies

5 from 25 votes

The combination of fresh jam and a 'buttery'-sweet crumb is pure deliciousness in every bite of these easy vegan raspberry jam thumbprint cookies.

Vegan Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

10. Vegan Peanut Butter and Jelly Thumbprint Cookies

Take thumbprint cookies up a notch with a peanut butter twist. These soft, chewy cookies from Food Sharing Vegan bring nostalgic PB&J flavor to your cookie tray, and they make a sweet gift!

Vegan Peanut Butter and Jelly Thumbprint Cookies

These vegan peanut butter thumbprint cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with classic peanut butter and jelly flavor, with no eggs or dairy! Just 6 ingredients, one bowl, and 15 minutes of baking time, plus low-sugar, sugar-free, and gluten-free options!

Vegan Peanut Butter and Jelly Thumbprint Cookies

11. Vegan Snickerdoodles

No holiday cookie list is complete without the sweet cinnamon crackle and chewy center of snickerdoodles. They’re a timeless crowd-pleaser, and the dough freezes well, too.

Vegan Snickerdoodles

5 from 33 votes

These vegan snickerdoodles are perfect not only as a fall dessert recipe but for the entire holiday season and year-round. They’re soft, slightly chewy, pillowy, and loaded with warm cinnamon sugar and no eggs or dairy. They’re a family favorite.

Vegan Snickerdoodles

12. Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

If you love snickerdoodles and pumpkin, these egg-free pumpkin snickerdoodles are ready in about 30 minutes. They’re soft, chewy, and crinkly, not overly cakey.

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

5 from 1 vote

These easy 30-minute pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies are soft, chewy, and crinkly. A perfectly cozy cookie you’ll want to bake every fall!

Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

13. Double Chocolate Chip Peppermint Cookies

Double chocolate and a hint of peppermint make these cookies a winner for cookie swaps. They taste like peppermint vegan hot chocolate in cookie form!

Double Chocolate Chip Peppermint Cookies

5 from 25 votes

These double chocolate chip peppermint cookies are soft, chewy, and perfect for the holidays! Packed with cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and peppermint extract, they truly embody festive flavors and require just 15 minutes of hands-on prep!

Vegan Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

14. Vegan Lemon Shortbread Cookies

These shortbread cookies are crisp outside, soft inside, and full of tangy lemon flavor for a fresh twist on a holiday favorite. You can also experiment with holiday flavors (like cranberry and orange!).

Vegan Lemon Shortbread Cookies

5 from 50 votes

These vegan lemon shortbread cookies are crisp outside, soft in the middle, 'buttery', and bursting with bright, tangy lemon flavor (+ several flavor variations!). Plus, they're ready in just 30 minutes!

Vegan Lemon Shortbread Cookies

15. Vegan Persimmon Cookies

These soft persimmon cookies are warmly spiced and studded with juicy Fuyu persimmon, with just 8 simple ingredients and no eggs. Persimmons are in season during the holidays, so they’re a fun surprise on a cookie plate.

Easy Persimmon Cookies

5 from 1 vote

These soft vegan persimmon cookies are warmly spiced and studded with juicy Fuyu persimmon. They take just 8 simple pantry ingredients and about 30 minutes, with no eggs or dairy!

Vegan Persimmon Cookies

16. Soft Pumpkin Molasses Cookies

Two cookies in one! These soft pumpkin molasses cookies are thick, chewy, and spiced with ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and rich molasses.

Soft Pumpkin Molasses Cookies

4.96 from 62 votes

Enjoy two cookies in one with these easy soft pumpkin molasses cookies, ready in just 30 minutes. They’re soft, slightly chewy, thick, and perfectly flavored for fall with ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and rich molasses!

Soft Pumpkin Molasses Cookies

17. Apple Pie Cookies

These vegan apple pie cookies taste just like mini apple pies, with flaky crust wrapped around a spiced apple filling. They’re a sweet way to carry Thanksgiving flavors into the holiday season!

Apple Pie Cookies

5 from 1 vote

If you love apple pie, you’ll adore easy-to-make apple pie cookies (mini apple pies, made with flaky pie crust encasing juicy, spiced apple pie filling!

Apple Pie Cookies

18. Carrot Cake Cookies

Carrot cake cookies are soft, moist, cakey, and perfectly spiced, and they’re loaded with carrots, walnuts, and raisins. They add something a little different to a holiday cookie tray.

Carrot Cake Cookies (Vegan)

5 from 1 vote

These easy carrot cake cookies truly deserve their name – soft, moist, cakey, perfectly spiced, & loaded with carrot, walnuts, & raisins!

Carrot Cake Cookies

19. Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies

With warm cinnamon spice and melty vegan chocolate chips, these cookies are a festive twist on a cookie jar classic. You can freeze the rolled dough balls for up to 3 months, too.

Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies

4.88 from 33 votes

Make these super soft cinnamon chocolate chip cookies with just one bowl, 25 minutes, and 8 inexpensive pantry ingredients. The cozy flavor is perfect for fall and the holiday season!

Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies

20. Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies

These cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with sweet and salty peanut butter flavor. Perfect for gifting, sharing, or keeping all to yourself.

Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies

5 from 3 votes

These 6-ingredient vegan peanut butter cookies have crisp edges, a soft, chewy middle, and bake in just 12-15 minutes! Plus, they're optionally refined sugar-free & gluten-free!

Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies

21. Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These nostalgic cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with oats and vegan chocolate chips. Just like Grandma used to make, but vegan!

Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

5 from 56 votes

These vegan oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy with lightly crisp edges and studded with vegan chocolate chips for a simple and easy dairy and egg-free oatmeal cookie that tastes just like the classic!

Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

22. Dairy-free Chocolate Chip Cookies

These taste just like the classic, with crisp edges, chewy centers, and melty vegan chocolate chips, but 100% vegan! They’re as perfect at Christmas as they are year-round.

You might also enjoy my skillet chocolate chip cookie for a holiday movie night.

Dairy-free Chocolate Chip Cookies

5 from 4 votes

These one-bowl, easy dairy-free chocolate chip cookies have crisp edges, a soft and chewy middle, and are loaded with vegan chocolate chips – they taste just like the classic, but 100% egg and dairy-free and are ready in just 20 minutes!

Dairy-free Chocolate Chip Cookies

23. Chickpea Chocolate Chip Cookies

Take a break from the classics with these chickpea chocolate chip cookies. They’re crispy outside with a soft, chewy middle and gooey chocolate chips in every bite.

Chickpea Chocolate Chip Cookies

4.97 from 28 votes

Chickpea chocolate chip cookies are crispy outside with a soft, chewy middle and gooey chocolate chips in every bite, yet surprisingly healthy and wholesome + egg-free, dairy-free, nut-free, and oil-free!

Chickpea Chocolate Chip Cookies

24. Kitchen Sink Cookies

These loaded cookies have it all: vegan chocolate, pretzels, chips, nuts, and whatever your heart (or pantry) desires this holiday season! Perfect for cookie swaps!

Kitchen Sink Cookies Recipe

4.90 from 19 votes

Everything but the kitchen sink cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with your favorite sweet and salty mix-ins (like pretzels, vegan chocolate, & potato chips) for an indulgent treat.

Kitchen Sink Cookies

25. Lemon Lavender Cookies

Lemon lavender cookies are soft, fluffy, and a little chewy, with citrus and floral notes and a light lemon glaze. They’re a lovely change of pace next to all the spice cookies.

Lemon Lavender Cookies

5 from 1 vote

These lemon lavender cookies are soft, fluffy, a little chewy, and bursting with citrus and floral notes, with a light lemon glaze—the perfect springtime cookie!

Lemon Lavender Cookies

26. Vegan No Bake Chocolate Cookies

When the oven is full of other holiday bakes or you’re short on time, these no-bake chocolate peanut butter cookies come to the rescue. They’re chocolatey, quick, and freezer-friendly!

Vegan No Bake Chocolate Cookies

4.99 from 101 votes

These no-bake chocolate cookies are so delicious! Rich cocoa powder, creamy peanut butter, quick-cooking oats, and a few other simple ingredients combine to make a soft, chewy cookie. Everyone will be coming back for seconds!

Vegan No Bake Chocolate Cookies

27. Vegan Chocolate Chip Quinoa Cookies

Made with quinoa and peanut butter, these no-bake cookies are chewy and full of fun mix-ins. Keep a batch in the fridge for holiday snacking.

Vegan Chocolate Chip Quinoa Cookies

4.97 from 53 votes

Vegan chocolate chip quinoa cookies are chewy and indulgent yet loaded with wholesome ingredients and your favorite add-ins. Plus these no-bake quinoa cookies make for an easy egg-free, dairy-free, refined-sugar-free, high-protein snack.

Vegan Chocolate Chip Quinoa Cookies

More Holiday Treats

Want to round out your cookie tray or gift boxes? These no-bake candies and treats are just as fun to make and share.

• Vegan peppermint patties: creamy, minty, and coated in chocolate, with just 4 ingredients and no baking.
• Vegan peppermint bark: two layers of dark and white chocolate topped with crushed candy canes, great for gifting.
• 3-ingredient peanut clusters: sweet, salty, and crunchy, made in the microwave, on the stove, or in a crockpot.
• 2-ingredient Biscoff fudge: rich cookie butter fudge that’s freezer-friendly and easy to box up as a gift.
• Vegan microwave fudge: rich, creamy, chocolatey, and ready to set in minutes.
• Chocolate peanut butter pretzel bark: sweet and salty, no-bake, and loaded with peanuts and pretzels.
• Peanut butter Rice Krispie balls: no-bake chocolate peanut butter balls with a fun crunch.
• Homemade vegan peanut butter cups: just 3 ingredients and every bit as creamy as the candy.
• Chocolate coconut balls: a sweet coconut center dipped in melted vegan chocolate.
• Homemade hot chocolate mix: a 4-ingredient mix that makes a sweet gift jar next to a tin of cookies.

Vegan Christmas Cookies FAQs

More Vegan Christmas Recipes

Vegan Desserts

Vegan Peppermint Bark

Vegan Desserts

Vegan Chocolate Peppermint Pie

Vegan Desserts

Cinnamon Almonds

Vegan Desserts

Vegan Gingerbread Cake

Vegan Desserts

Easy Muddy Buddies [Puppy Chow]

Vegan Desserts

Biscoff Brownies

If you tried any of these vegan Christmas cookies or any other recipe on my blog, please leave a 🌟 star rating and let me know how it went in the 📝 comments below. Thanks!