50 Vegan Christmas Cookies

50 of the best vegan Christmas cookies the internet has to offer! No matter what you're craving this holiday season, you're sure to find it here!

Cookies are a must at Christmastime and with these 50 unique and festive vegan Christmas cookie recipes, you'll have a hard time choosing which ones to make!

From classic gingerbread and fun-to-decorate sugar cookies, to creative chocolate reindeers and aquafaba meringues, this collection has a little bit of everything.

The variety of Christmas-themed cookies are perfect for putting together a cookie box or for gifting to family and friends in this year's cookie exchange.

Take a scroll through this list of vegan Christmas cookies and just imagine how wonderfully you're house will smell once you get baking!

Vegan Gingerbread Cookies

These perfect vegan gingerbread cookies are so easy to make and ideal for decorating at Christmas. They make lovely gifts or edible decorations and can be made soft or crunchy as you prefer. Use this recipe to make vegan Gingerbread men, edible tree decorations or any kind of cut outs you like.

Vegan Sugar Cookies

These soft and “buttery” vegan sugar cookies easily come together with a 6 ingredient simple cookie dough that bake into the perfect chewy cut-out cookies! No one will know these sugar cookies are made without real butter!

Vegan Spritz Cookies

Nothing could be better than a tray of these buttery soft, vegan Spritz cookies, in the cutest pressed designs. Festive & fun and so easy to make.

Vegan Linzer Cookies

Jam filled vegan Linzer cookies are a holiday favourite. They’re so much fun to bake! Plus they are an absolute eye catcher on the cookie platter, while also delighting with a lovely flavour and beautiful light, crumbly texture.

Vegan Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

Vegan Chocolate Peppermint Cookies have a brownie-like texture, are filled with chocolate chips, crunchy candy cane pieces, and are completely addicting! The ultimate holiday cookie and made in 1 bowl.

Aquafaba Christmas Tree Meringues

These meringues go perfectly with a warm coffee on a snowy day or as garnishes on a delicious Yule log! They are perfect to make this time of year because there is a lot less humidity, which is the nemesis of meringue!

Vegan Peppermint Cookies

These soft and fluffy vegan peppermint cookies are completely irresistible! It’s the perfect fun and festive recipe to serve at any holiday party.

Easy Vegan Shortbread Cookies

These unbelievably vegan shortbread cookies taste just like the classic and use just 5 ingredients! Chewy, crisp, “buttery,” and sweet, this Christmas shortbread recipe is the perfect recipe for a cookie exchange!

Vegan Stamp Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Not only are these vegan stamp chocolate shortbread cookies delicious, but they are visually stunning and will be the talk of the dessert table!

Festive Vegan Christmas Pinwheel Cookies

Festive Vegan Christmas Pinwheel Cookies turn basic sugar cookie dough into these fun pinwheels. Perfect for the holidays!

Vegan Butter Cookies

These Vegan Butter Cookies are melt-in-your-mouth delicious, with a crisp exterior and buttery, soft interior. They're truly just as good as anything you'd get at a bakery, and they're super easy to make, with just 5 ingredients.

Vegan Meringue Kisses

Festive Eggless Meringue Kisses, the perfect little festive treat! These cute little desserts would look great in a gift box or on a dessert platter at a festive party.

Vegan Thumbprint Cookies

Vegan Thumbprint Cookies - The combination of tart jam and a buttery-sweet crumb is pure bliss in every bite. 

Vegan Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Fudgy, sweet, and gorgeously crinkled just like their non-vegan twins, these chocolate cookies are perfect for Christmas cookie platters - or hoard them all for yourself. Not that I would ever do that.

Vegan Cranberry Brown Sugar Cookies

For day 5 of my “12 Days of Christmas Recipes” we are making vegan cranberry brown sugar cookies! These cookies are soft and chewy and use simple ingredients! They’re spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, and topped with an orange glaze, making them the perfect Christmas cookies.

Vegan Christmas Cookies with Pistachio and Cranberries

Vegan Christmas Cookies studded with pistachios, cranberries and can be made into festive raspberry linzer cookies! They're incredibly easy and made with only common pantry staples. These beautiful festive cookies are perfect for enjoying at home, sharing with friends and family or given as a homemade gift.

Vegan Ginger Cookies

These vegan ginger cookies are naturally sweetened with maple syrup and molasses. They’re full of warm spices, spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

Chocolate Linzer Cookies

Looking for buttery and chocolatey cookies to prepare for the holidays? We have got you covered! Introducing Chocolate Linzer Cookies! These Linzer cookies are filled with a creamy hazelnut dark chocolate filling! We even sneaked in a few drops of orange extract for extra holiday vibes!

Vegan Gingerbread Stained Glass Cookies

Gingerbread cookies with cut-out stained glass centres, using boiled sweets. Fun to make and they look great! A vegan and dairy-free recipe.

Vegan Reindeer Christmas Cookies

Giant, gooey and utterly delicious Vegan Reindeer Christmas Cookies. With a cute chocolate reindeer on top, they are the perfect treat for Christmas.

Vegan Amaretti Cookies

These are my eggless take on the famous Italian almond cookies amaretti morbidi, except that morbidi does not mean what you probably think it does. It simply means ‘soft’ as, like their traditional counterparts, they are soft and chewy on the inside and a touch crispy on the outside.

Vegan Danish Butter Cookies

Buttery Danish cookies or Spritz cookies made dairy-free, but with all the familiar flavour of the classic biscuits you get in a tin! These are great fun to make (especially if you have a cookie press, although it's not essential) and make wonderful homemade gifts.

Vegan Almond Crescent Cookies

Discover how to make perfect vegan almond crescent cookies without eggs! These German Vanillekipferl are a classic in holiday baking, completely free from animal products! Yet, they are so delicious and almost melt in your mouth!

Vegan Viennese Whirls

These vegan Viennese Whirls can actually be made with various combinations of ingredients but I’ve made a super home-baker friendly version with just 4 ingredients! Anyone who tries them won’t be able to tell they’re vegan. I love to give to them to non-vegans and watch their faces when I reveal they’re completely plant-based! 

Perfect Vegan Christmas Cookies

These vegan Christmas cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with vegan candy buttons! Perfect for cookie exchanges, gifting, and more!

Chai Vegan Sugar Cookies with Eggnog Glaze

Vegan sugar cookies! Chai sugar cookie with an eggnog glaze. If you’re looking for the the best vegan sugar cookie recipe, this is it. The chai spices are make it the perfect holiday cookie.

Vegan Eggnog Thumbprint Sugar Cookies

These vegan eggnog thumbprint sugar cookies are rolled in a spiced sugar coating and filled with a sweet, creamy eggnog white chocolate ganache! Packed with festive flavor, these little vegan thumbprint cookies make the perfect holiday or Christmas cookies.

Vegan Fruitcake Cookies

These fun and festive vegan fruitcake cookies are made with nuts, candied fruits and spices. This easy, one-bowl recipe captures all the goodness of the classic holiday treat in cookie form!

Snowmen Meringue Cookies

These snowman-shaped Vegan Meringue Cookies will be a hit at your next wintertime gathering. They are sweet, crisp, airy, and completely adorable!

Vegan Candy Cane Cookies

These festive Candy Cane Cookies are as cute as they are tasty! Vegan, but also buttery, pepperminty, and sparkly. Kids will love them!

Vegan Cinnamon Snowflake Cookies

These beautiful vegan shortbread cookies look and smell like Christmas!

Vegan Pecan Snowball Cookies

Welcome to the easiest vegan cookies you’ll ever make! My Vegan Pecan Snowball Cookies are fluffy, chewy, and dusted in a beautiful, snowy powdered sugar. They are effortlessly holiday-friendly, but make for the perfect sweet treat anytime of year! Oh, and did I mention, they’re also gluten-free? Run, don’t walk, and go make them now!

Vegan Grinch-Inspired Cookies

I guarantee baking some Grinch cookies will put anyone in the Christmas spirit! These vegan crinkle cookies are flavored with matcha powder to give them the infamous Grinch green color, coated in powdered sugar, and topped with heart sprinkles.

Vegan Ginger Molasses Cookies

These soft and chewy vegan ginger molasses cookies are full of holiday flavors you’ll love. Each bite is a little piece of heavenly perfection! How could you possibly achieve this classic cookie recipe in a vegan way? You’ll have to make a batch to find out.

Vegan Cranberry-Orange Pinwheel Cookies

The best 8-ingredient Vegan Cranberry Orange Pinwheel Cookies! These eggless & dairy-free cookies combine an orange shortbread cookie with swirls of a fresh cranberry sugar filling for a truly unique & absolutely delicious Holiday cookie.

Vegan Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

These veganized cookies are a spin on one of my fave cookies of all time, peanut butter and chocolate Kiss cookies. Buttery peanut butter cookies are topped with a velvety chocolate kiss.

Vegan Turtle Cookies

Vegan turtle cookies, filled with caramel and crusted with pecans and topped with a chocolate drizzle. They're satisfyingly sweet with a kick of salty caramel.

Vegan Cinnamon Stars

These 4-ingredient Zimtsterne (cinnamon stars) aka German Christmas cookies are lightly spiced, chewy, and perfect for the holidays. Plus, the easy recipe is naturally vegan (dairy-free, egg-free), gluten-free, and optionally refined sugar-free!

Vegan Pumpkin Cookies

This tasty vegan pumpkin cookies recipe is perfectly sweet, spiced, soft and fluffy! Ready in under 30 minutes, and so incredibly quick and easy to make. These cookies are as light as a cloud, deliciously soft and chewy and filled with warm pumpkin spices.

Vegan Peppermint Sugar Cookies

These vegan peppermint sugar cookies are soft, chewy and full of delicious peppermint flavor. Drizzle with dark chocolate and a sprinkle of crushed candy canes to finish. Perfect for any holiday cookie exchange!

Vegan Anginetti

These vegan anginetti are a traditional italian christmas cookie. they soft, sweet, and have a subtle flavor of anise. my absolute favorite.

Vegan Salted Caramel Cookies

Vegan salted caramel cookies are a fun twist on a classic. Delicious vegan thumbprint cookies made with a buttery dough and amazing caramel poured inside.

Apple Pie Cookies

Tender, moist, sweet almond flour apple pie cookies are the perfect healthy fall treat. They’re loaded with moreish cinnamon apple pie filling over nutrient-dense pumpkin almond flour cookie dough for healthy mini apple pies that are vegan, grain-free, gluten-free, oil-free, egg-free, and refined sugar-free!

Vegan Cranberry Almond Shortbread Cookies

These Vegan Cranberry/ Almond Shortbread Cookies are buttery, nutty, and tart with a touch of sweetness. They’d be great dipped in some chocolate or dusted with powdered sugar!

Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies

These Christmas Tree Sugar Cookies are the best festive cookie and they are so delicious. Crisp, golden and nutty sugar cookies (without the “sugar”) cut out as stars, decorated with green buttercream and stacked as a cookie Christmas tree – plus they are naturally vegan and gluten-free, too.

Copycat Pillsbury Vegan Christmas Slice and Bake Cookies

If you love the Pillsbury Christmas slice and bake cookies as much as I do, then you need to try these unbelievably vegan holiday slice and bake cookies. They taste *identical* to the store bought classic, and are super easy to make in just 5 basic steps!

Vegan Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies

Vegan Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies- easy, festive cookies that will delight both kids and adults!

3-Ingredient Snowman and Snowdog Cookies

‘We’re walking in the air’….. I’m literally on cloud 9 with these cookies!! Delicious 3 ingredient cookies which taste like shortbread with a vegan royal icing decoration. Perfect for the festive season. You know it’s Christmas when ‘The Snowman’ come’s on TV.

Brown Butter Maple Cookies

Soft & chewy maple cookies lightly laced with nutty brown butter and cinnamon, then drizzled in a buttery maple glaze for the ultimate seasonal cookie!