30+ Best Vegan And Gluten-Free Cookie Recipes
You’re going to love this epic round-up of the Best Vegan & Gluten-Free Cookies recipes. Whether you’re looking for plant-based and allergy-friendly cookie recipes for the holidays, birthday parties, or just for fun, there is literally a cookie for everyone on this list.
Healthy Cookie Round-Up
Whether you’re looking for holiday recipes or birthday treats, you are certain to find the perfect cookies in this vegan and gluten-free cookie recipe round-up.
Some of the best food bloggers on the web shared their favorite recipes with me, and I am so grateful! I hope you enjoy perusing the mouth-watering photos.
To help make this list more manageable, I’ve organized this plant-based cookie round-up into three different sections including holiday cookies, classic cookie recipes, and no-bake cookie recipes.
Scroll down the post to find your favorite new cookie recipe to make for your friends, family, or just for yourself. From peanut butter to chocolate chip cookies, this list has them all. Best of all, they are all made without gluten, eggs, or dairy, so you should be able to find the perfect recipe for your needs.
Vegan and Gluten-Free Cookie Ingredients
To make a vegan and gluten-free cookie, this means that the recipe is both fully plant-based and free from any gluten-containing flours. None of the dry ingredients or wet ingredients will include any gluten-containing flours or animal products such as milk, dairy, eggs, or honey.
Most of these recipes use simple ingredients such as gluten-free flour, almond flour, coconut oil, oat flour, brown sugar, flax egg, nut butter, vegan chocolate chips, almond milk, vanilla extract, coconut sugar, and melted vegan butter.
Vegan and gluten-free cookies will not contain ingredients such as:
- all purpose flour or regular flour,
- eggs,
- honey,
- dairy milk, or
- butter.
Allergy-Friendly Cookie FAQs
Most types of cookie recipes can be made vegan and gluten-free, but it’s best to find a recipe that has been tested with these changes. In other words, don’t just expect that you can leave out the eggs, gluten, and milk and think that it will turn out okay. It’s best to find a recipe that has been fully tested (like the ones included in the list below).
Most baked vegan cookies can be frozen for up to 2 months. You can also freeze the cookie dough in an airtight container to be baked later. Defrost the dough, divide the cookie dough balls into even amounts, and place on a baking sheet or cookie sheet to bake (I like to use parchment paper for easy clean up). Serve the cookies warm or at room temperature.
There are lots of options for making an egg-free and plant-based egg wash to help create crispy edges and a golden brown crust. Some options include using an egg substitute, maple syrup, aquafaba, or a chia egg. Here is my full list of the best vegan substitutes for egg wash.
Now onto the recipes! If you see one you like, simple click on the photo and you’ll be taken to the full recipe and recipe card.
Vegan & Gluten-Free Cookie Recipes
Here's a round-up of the very best vegan and gluten-free cookie recipes from around the web. This list is organized into categories so you can find your favorites easily.
Holiday Cookie Recipes
Here are the best vegan and gluten-free holiday cookie recipes!
Vegan & Gluten-Free Gingersnaps
These Gingersnaps are both vegan and gluten-free, but they are soft and chewy and absolutely delicious!
Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Use up your leftover canned pumpin puree to make these soft and tender vegan and gluten-free pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.
Gluten Free Vegan Cookies – Cinnamon & Maple Sugar Cookies
Healthier gluten-free and vegan sugar cookies with cinnamon, walnut and maple flavor! The cookies are crisp, crumbly and addictive!
Vegan Gluten-Free Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
Classic sugar cookies made vegan AND gluten-free! These treats can be made soft or crisp and they can be decorated for any occasion!
Almond Flour Sugar Cookies (Scoop or Roll and Cut)
Almond Flour Sugar Cookies are a gluten free alternative to the classic! With a cut out option or scoop and flatten option you can make thick and soft or thin and crispy cookies.
Gluten-free Gingerbread Cookies (Vegan)
Easy gluten-free gingerbread that is also vegan-friendly! The perfect chewy texture and intense gingerbread taste.
Vegan Thumbprint Cookies
Vegan thumbprint cookies make a wonderful holiday cookie with their easy preparation and minimal ingredients. A soft, buttery and chewy almond flour cookie is coated in crunchy chopped pecans, flavored with vanilla and almond extracts, then filled with your favorite jam.
Vegan Ginger Cookies (Easy)
These epic ginger and spice cookies are vegan and gluten free. They have crunchy exteriors and chewy insides.
Easy Gluten-free Snowball Cookies (No Box Mix!)
If you are looking for nutty buttery shortbread cookies covered with a generous layer of powdered sugar, you should try those Gluten-free Vegan Snowball Cookies. Not just for Christmas!
Keto Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies (Vegan)
Easy Keto Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are full of vibrant berry flavor and taste rich and buttery. This simple vegan sugar-free cookie recipe is perfect for holiday gifts or cookie exchanges! Make a batch for Christmas!
Guilt-Free Pecan Pie Cookies (Paleo & Vegan)
A subtly sweet shortbread topped with a maple syrup and date sweetened pecan pie filling.
Snowmen Vegan Meringue Cookies
These snowman-shaped vegan meringue cookies will be a hit at your next wintertime gathering. They are sweet, crisp, airy and completely adorable!
No-bake Easter Cookies Nests
These adorable Easter cookies are no-bake, gluten-free, and vegan.
Classic Cookie Recipes
The following classic cookie recipes are made both vegan and gluten-free so everybody can enjoy them.
Banana Oatmeal Cookies with Chocolate Chips
These low-sugar oatmeal cookies are sweetened with fruit and chocolate chips. They are a healthy upgrade from the traditional version.
Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies - Soft Cookies at 150 Calories Each
Super soft vegan peanut butter cookies recipe! This easy 1 bowl vegan cookies recipe makes 18 cookies, each at 150 calories, making them a guilt free dessert! Cookies are ready in 12 minutes!
Easy Vegan White Chocolate & Raspberry Cookies - Gluten Free
These vegan white chocolate raspberry cookies are soft and tasty. Ready in under 30 minutes, they’re gluten-free and and flourless too!
Vegan Chickpea Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies [GF] - Watch Learn Eat
You'd never know that these melt-in-your mouth Chickpea Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies aren't just vegan, but they are also gluten-free, grain-free, refined sugar-free and nut-free. Enjoy alone or top with sea salt for a sweet and salty combo.
Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Everyone needs a great chocolate chip cookie recipe, and this is the one you should have up your sleeve if you need vegan and gluten free chocolate chip cookies!
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies (small batch)
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies (small batch), that also happen to be gluten-free, too!
Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting | GF
These carrot cake cookies are so good, they’re going to become your new favorite afternoon treat. Eat them alone, or sandwich two together with our delicious vegan cream cheese frosting in between for an even more decadent cookie!
Gluten Free Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Deep chocolate flavor and extra rich flavor sets off the dense and satisfying double chocolate cookies!
Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies (AIP, Vegan, GF, tigernut flour)
Just like the best bakery chocolate chip cookies we all grew up with, these Chocolate Chip Cookies are crispy around the edges, tender in the middle and packed with melty chocolate chips!
Vegan Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
There's no flour needed for these melt-in-your-mouth vegan cookies! Packed with chunks of chocolate and creamy peanut butter, these cookies are always a good idea.
Vegan Lemon Cookies
These Vegan and gluten free lemon cookies are thick, chewy and gooey! They are easy to make and bursting with fresh lemon flavor.
Vegan Almond Flour Shortbread Cookies (3 ingredients)
Easy vegan almond flour cookies with only 3 ingredients! This gluten free shortbread is healthy, oil free, crispy and 'buttery'.
Healthy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
These amazing Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal cookies will remind you of the cookies your grandma used to make.
Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (flourless) - Texanerin Baking
These Gluten-free Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are flourless and have an amazing texture! They’re super quick and easy to make and the result is an ultra peanut buttery cookie that will rival your favorites.
Vegan Double Chocolate Cookies {Gluten Free}
Easy to make, decadent and very tasty Vegan Double Chocolate cookies with tapioca starch and coconut sugar.
3 Ingredient Banana Oatmeal Cookies (Vegan Banana Cookies)
Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal cookies only require 3 pantry ingredients and are ready in under 20 minutes! Plus, these 3 ingredient vegan peanut butter cookies are the best as an easy, quick dessert
Energy Bites & No-Bake Cookies
Here are the best vegan and gluten-free energy bites and no-bake cookies!
Double Chocolate Almond Butter Energy Balls
These Double Chocolate Almond Butter Energy Balls are perfect for chocoholics like me. Make a big batch today!
Double Chocolate Edible Brownie Batter
Edible brownie batter is a safe way to eat brownie batter without the worry of eating raw eggs.
Vegan Cookie Wrap-up
See, aren’t these the most amazing vegan cookie recipes? And they’re all gluten-free, too! I’m excited to try some new ones, and I hope you are too. I’m very thankful for my fellow food bloggers who shared their recipes in this round-up. Please let me know which recipes you try in the comments!
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This is such a great roundup of cookies! I’ve added many to my list!
Thanks, Addison!!! 🙂
Amazing vegan cookie round-up! This is just in time for my plan to make cookies as homecoming gifts for my friends. Ohh making me hungry now.
This is such an awesome list! Saving some of these for later.
I love cookies especially the chewy ones at this time of the year. They are perfect to be paired with coffee or hot chocolate.