This is a vegan-friendly cookie box with healthy-ish recipes and a couple of gluten/grain-free options. The types I chose here were specifically because they’re a bit more budget friendly than some others I have on the blog, and they’re all great Christmas flavours.
A few of the recipes call for honey but there are vegan guidelines included in the posts, and they’re all refined sugar free. There are two options here: the first one is a plan-based cookie box, and the second is a gluten-free cookie box. There are some repeats, of course, and a handful of recipes that aren’t cookies at all, but very nice to have in the mix.
So get baking! This is lots of fun to do with friends or family, and all of the cookies can be frozen, so you can do it in advance.
These easy vegan coconut sugar cookies are like gingerbread without molasses. Made with ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg for a holiday worthy flavour without any hard to find ingredients. Easily rolled and cut, these make the prettiest Christmas cutout cookies in any shape you like.
Vegan orange shortbread with all the winter spices. These shortbread cutouts are made with spelt flour and coconut sugar for a healthier Christmas cookie.
Vegan hazelnut oatmeal cookies, with chocolate chips and coconut sugar. Using hazelnuts in the base of these cookies adds richness and a buttery taste.
Vegan and gluten-free gingerbread cookies, made with a base of hazelnut and coconut flour, are a nice healthy-ish treat for the holidays. Decorate for edible ornaments or enjoy these lightly sweet spiced cookies as is.
Vegan and gluten free peanut butter cookies, made with coconut flour and maple syrup. These super healthy cookies taste just like standard PB cookies, despite being free from refined sugar and grains, and they're so easy to make.
Date-sweetened gluten-free chocolate peanut butter cookies made with dates and cocoa. These fudgy flourless chocolate cookies are delicious and a healthier option to fulfill a chocolate craving.
Vegan lebkuchen, or traditional German spice cookies, are a common treat around Christmas. A bit like gingerbread, this lightened up version includes hazelnut flour, coconut sugar, and olive oil. These chocolate drizzled cookies are perfect for the holidays.
Adapted from classic Swedish chocolate balls, these chocolate coconut balls are so quick and easy. With oats, coconut, and cocoa powder, they're a good on-the-go treat.
Vegan and gluten-free gingerbread cookies, made with a base of hazelnut and coconut flour, are a nice healthy-ish treat for the holidays. Decorate for edible ornaments or enjoy these lightly sweet spiced cookies as is.
Vegan and gluten free peanut butter cookies, made with coconut flour and maple syrup. These super healthy cookies taste just like standard PB cookies, despite being free from refined sugar and grains, and they're so easy to make.
Date-sweetened gluten-free chocolate peanut butter cookies made with dates and cocoa. These fudgy flourless chocolate cookies are delicious and a healthier option to fulfill a chocolate craving.
Sugar free and vegan puffed quinoa bars made with raw cacao, dates, and nut butter. These no bake snacks are a healthier gluten free riff on a prairie classic, puffed wheat squares.
Chocolate coconut bars, made with honey and coconut butter, are a healthy-ish replacement for run of the mill chocolate bars. These are a nice treat and fun to make, with simple, wholesome ingredients.
Easy no-bake chocolate bars with a crisp almond flour shortbread base, date caramel filling, and dark chocolate coating. Egg, dairy, and gluten free, and no oven needed.
Since first sharing this, Graham has since made me a wooden cookie box with scrap pine wood, so I use that instead of stapled cardboard (must reshoot this post). An old tin is perfect, of course, especially for gifting, and can be re-used.
Add some little extra bits like ribbon, greenery, mini decorations, and so on – the goal is to be as pretty as possible here. This is, of course, a lovely gift, but I also have a version of it on the table around Christmas time whenever we have visitors.
Storage
All of the cookies freeze spectacularly so you can make them all ahead of time and freeze them in well sealed containers, then assemble when you’re ready to gift.
You could ship them, but note that cookies tend to exchange moisture content and crispy cookies will get a lot less crispy the longer they’re mixed with other higher-moisture cookies, like the macaroons.
