Sweet, cinnamony homemade Apple Butter slathered on a rich, super buttery Vegan Shortbread cookie, for only 100 calories? Yes, please!! The perfect treat to welcome fall and the "apples and honey" season.
Remember those Danish butter cookies that came in a round blue tin? What about those shortbread cookies in the red package? We used to LOVE them when we were kids. So rich and buttery, yet so simple!
Well, if you're looking for a super easy, egg-free, dairy-free recipe to recreate those at home, check out these Vegan Shortbread cookies!
All you need are 5 ingredients, a bowl, and a hand mixer. The dough is ready in just a few minutes, chilled for 10, then baked until golden brown.
The steps to prepare the dough are quite simple:
- Step 1: First, cream the coconut oil and the sugar together until creamy and fluffy. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla, and beat for another minute. The mixture will look like the picture above.
- Step 2: Add the flour and mix until just incorporated. Then add the water and mix with your hands, until it forms a dough. Make sure not to over-mix it, or the cookies will be tough!
- Step 3: Roll the dough into a log, wrap it and chill it for 10 minutes. Once it's ready, cut it into ¼ inch slices. They won't be perfectly round, but you can gently shape them with your fingers if you'd like!
- Step 4: Bake the cookies until golden and let them cool before storing them. Keep them in an airtight container for 4-5 days, or freeze them in a freezer bag for up to a month.
Serve the cookies plain with a hot cup of coffee or tea, or with our super tasty homemade apple butter.
These decadent vegan shortbread cookies are:
- Rich and buttery
- Super easy to prepare
- Made with only 5 ingredients
- Dairy and egg-free
- Under 100 calories per cookie
If you love vegan shortbread and feel adventurous, they are our Vegan Meyer Lemon Bars and Fig & Tahini Truffle Tarts!
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Vegan Shortbread Cookies
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 18 1x
Description
Sweet, cinnamony homemade Apple Butter slathered on a rich, super buttery Vegan Shortbread cookie, for only 100 calories? Yes please!! The perfect treat to welcome fall and the "apples and honey" season.
Ingredients
- ½ cup coconut oil, at room temperature
- 1 tbsp granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 tsp natural vanilla extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1-2 tablespoon water
Instructions
- Using an electric mixer, cream coconut oil and granulated sugar for about a minute, until it starts to look fluffy. Add powdered sugar and vanilla extract and continue mixing for another minute
- Gradually add flour and continue mixing until just incorporated. Add water (start with 1 tablespoon and add the second one if necessary) and work the mixture with your hands until it forms a dough
- Roll the dough onto a log (approximately 4.5 inches long). Wrapped it on plastic wrap and refrigerate for 10 minutes
- Preheat oven to 325ºF. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Slice the log into 18 - ¼ inch rounds, place them on the lined baking sheet and bake at 325F for about 30 minutes, until they start to brown lightly
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: Kosher / Vegan
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 85
- Sugar: 2.1
- Sodium: 0.2
- Fat: 6.2
- Saturated Fat: 5
- Unsaturated Fat: 0.6
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 6.9
- Fiber: 0.7
- Protein: 1
- Cholesterol: 0
Edwina
I'm very interested in trying this recipe to see how it turns out. I love using coconut oil in lots of things so I'm curious how this will taste. They look delicious.
Vicky & Ruth
Thank you. Let us know how they come out for you.
paula z
Made this last night and have to tell you how wonderful it is. I made some spiced apple-pear butter from fruit threatening to go soft and came across your shortbread recipe while searching for a no-butter recipe. As a nice surprise, there was an apple butter recipe too, which I will use the next time I make this treat. It's a keeper, easy and delicious, and a somewhat more guilt-free snack. Well done!
Vicky and Ruth
So glad you loved them Paula.
Keep Cooking 🙂
Marie Markham
How long will the spiced apple butter keep?
Vicky and Ruth
It will keep about a week or maybe longer as long as it smells and tastes ok and only clean utensils are used to scoop it out. If any piece of cookie, bread cracker etc gets into the apple butter it will spoil fast.