Easy Vegan Lemon Cookie Recipe
Vegan Lemon Cookies - truly the best easy and wholesome Vegan Lemon Cookie Recipe! Soft, chewy and sugary, these lemon cookies are going to become your new favorite summer treat!
Servings: 12 cookies
Equipment
- electric mixer
- mixing bowl
- cookie tray
- parchment paper
Ingredients
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp sifted all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cold sliced vegan butter
- 1 tbsp ground flex (not a flex egg)
- 1/2 cup raw sugar + 2tbsp for coating the cookie dough balls
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 3 tbsp lemon zest
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt (if using unsalted butter)
Instructions
- Cream together butter and 1/2 sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy. About 1 minute.
- Then add in ground flex, lemon zest, lemon juice and vanilla extract. Combine everything together with the electric mixer.
- Add in dry ingredients - sifted flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt. Mix again until combined. This is going to be a very thick dough, so do not worry about that.
- Next add the bowl to the fridge. For about 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Set aside a bowl of 2Tbsp of granulated sugar to make these vegan lemon sugar cookies.
- Cover a baking sheet in parchment paper and preheat the oven to 350F (176 C). Next, remove the dough from the fridge and use a cookie scoop to form your cookie dough balls.
- Then roll in the 2 Tbsp of sugar that was set aside so that each dough ball is coated.
- Place the lemon sugar cookie dough balls onto the baking sheet. Make sure that each cookie dough ball is kept about 2 inches apart since they will spread while baking.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes until bottoms are golden brown.
- Remove the baking tray from the oven and set aside.