Easy vegan sugar cookies

Hey guys! Happy New Year! This is what I made in just before midnight with one of my exchange student friends, to celebrate the French New Year (later we celebrated the East Coast New Year too). It's another one of those recipes that you don't have to think much: just toss everything in a bowl and add some decoration. Plus it tastes really good.

Ingredients:

 

2 cups of white flour

3/4 cup of sugar

1/2 cup of almond, rice, soja or oat milk

1/2 cup of canola oil

1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon

2 teaspoons of baking powder

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1 teaspoon salt

Optional:

Raisins

Chocolate chips

Other dried fruits 

Nuts

Mix the dry ingredients together, add the wet ingredients slowly. Mix and drop on greased cookie sheet. Decorate however you like! I added a drop of apricot jelly to each cookie. Bake for half an hour on medium temperature. It has a cakey-like texture, which I love, and also it packs quite a lot of sugar per cookie, so I'd recommend eating eat only after dinner or a very well balanced meal.

Enjoy!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Oatmeal raisin cookies, a Christmas classic! Yum! This is one of my favorite recipes because:

1.       The ingredients are easy to find and you probably have them at home already

2.       It’s one of those classic ‘toss everything in’ recipes,

3.       It smells like Christmas in a box.

4.        It’s healthy and has a good dose of iron in the oatmeal.

Did I convince you to make them now? J

Oh, and they’re the soft type of cookie, not the crunchy type, which is my personal favorite.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• 3 cups of oatmeal
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup brown sugar
• ½ cup white sugar
• ½ cup soy milk
• ¾ cup margarine
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 teaspoons of all spice, or 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ½ nutmeg and ½ cloves
• 1 cup raisins

Add both sugars with margarine and mix until fluffy.  Slowly add the soy milk, mix well. Add flour, baking soda, and spices. Mix until smooth, and add the remaining ingredients.

I find that the cookies taste better after the batter is refrigerated for at least half an hour, but you can bake them now.  Drop them on a greased cookie sheet, making round balls.  Bake for about 20 minutes to 180°C.
And wait for them to cool down before eating or they'll be all crumbly!!! Sheesh. I've done that 3 times now until I've learned my lesson.