Gluten-Free Christmas Cookies (Vegan)

Look no further, my sweet friends. I’ve compiled a list of the 10 most amazing vegan and gluten-free Christmas cookies that are perfect for all your holiday cookie trays, baking exchanges, and festive celebrations. Bonus: Santa will love them too!

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Tips for Vegan/Gluten-Free Christmas Cookies

The holidays are busy enough as is and nobody has time for a pan of yucky inedible cookies. Let’s set you up for Christmas cookie success.

Room Temperature Ingredients: I’m sure you’ve heard or seen this in just about every recipe but it truly is vital. When ingredients are varied temperatures, they don’t properly combine often creating a flat and/or dense cookie.

Gluten-Free Flour: There are so many different gluten-free flour blends available on the market today. Each with their own advantages and disadvantages. My personal favorite for baking is Primal Palate but as long as the 1:1 baking blend contains xanthan gum, it will work.

Baking Time: We’ve all experienced that dry gritty gluten-free vegan christmas cookie that practically turns to dust as you take a bite. No thanks! To ensure a moist and chewy cookie, slightly under-baking is key. Look for set, lightly golden brown cookie edges with an under-baked cookie center.

The Best Vegan & Gluten-Free Christmas Cookies

1. Coconut Macaroons

These vegan coconut macarons are incredibly easy to make with only two ingredients needed. They’re so chewy and delicious, you’ll never guess they’re eggless and gluten-free.

An assortment of gluten-free Christmas cookies.

2. Cherry Chip Cookies

Without a doubt, these are the best gluten-free vegan cherry chip cookies you’ll ever make. A thick cherry chip cookie with a soft chewy center, loaded with chopped maraschino cherries, and packed full of white chocolate chips.

3. No-Bake Gingerbread Date Balls

Gingerbread date balls are filled with yummy holiday gingerbread flavor! Bonus: they’re so quick to make and can be frozen too. Perfect for getting ahead on holiday baking or a last-minute DIY-Christmas gift.

4. Thumbprint Cookies With Icing

Take thumbprint cookies to the next level by making them with delicious icing centres. These cookies are gluten-free and vegan but you’d never know by how great they taste!

5. Chocolate Mint Cookies

A soft chewy chocolate mint cookie filled with decadent dark chocolate chips and a sprinkle of coarse sea salt. Practically begging for a glass of cold milk, these dreamy vegan mint cookies will have you coming back for seconds, thirds, and fourths.

6. Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies

No chilling required! These easy vegan & gluten-free sugar cookies are soft, buttery, and hold their shape without any time in the refrigerator. They’re the perfect holiday cut-out sugar cookie recipe.

The prettiest dairy-free sugar cookies shaped like snowflakes and decorated with white icing and glittery sprinkles.

7. Almond Flour Shortbread Cookies

Easy almond flour shortbread cookies that are delightfully crispy and made with only 3 ingredients. They are healthy, vegan, gluten-free, paleo, keto and can be made oil-free.

8. Peanut Butter Blossoms

Classic gluten-free peanut butter blossoms are soft, chewy, and full of peanut butter flavor. Finished with a gorgeous sugary crackled top and chocolate kiss, they’re the perfect easy cookie for the holiday season.

Light golden brown peanut butter blossom cookies that are topped with a dark brown chocolate kiss on top. — Peanut Butter Blossoms

9. Red Velvet Cookies

Thick bakery-style vegan red velvet cookies that practically melt in your mouth. This easy one-bowl cookie recipe is full of classic tangy red velvet flavor paired with both dark chocolate and white chocolate chips.

10. Linzer Cookies

Crisp and delicious vegan gluten-free Linzer cookies are easier to make than you may think. They make the perfect addition to your holiday cookie baking list.

11. Gluten-Free Whipped Shortbread Cookies

Ridiculously easy to make, gluten-free whipped shortbread cookies need only 6 ingredients and 30 minutes. These light buttery cookies practically melt in your mouth and are the perfect classic Christmas treat. Make a double, heck even a triple batch, and enjoy them all season long.

Perfectly round light yellow whipped shortbread cookies topped with red, white, and green confetti style sprinkles.

Gluten-Free Christmas Cookie Recipes

This amazing collection of vegan and gluten-free Christmas cookie recipes is guaranteed to make your holiday season not just scrumptious, but stress-free too! I can’t wait to see what cookie you bake up first.

Make sure you tag me @cakedbykatie in all your tasty gluten-free Christmas cookies.

Happy Holiday Baking!