The Best Vegan Snickerdoodles – healthienut – Easy to follow plant-forward recipes (2024)

Soft & pillowy snickerdoodles coated in cinnamon sugar and baked to perfection

These Vegan Snickerdoodles are soft and fluffy and filled with cinnamon and sugar flavors. They are easy & simple to make and the perfect holiday treat.

When I think of a perfect snickerdoodle I imagine soft, fluffy, sugarycircles of goodness. They are not like your traditional cookies that have slightly crunchy edges. Snickerdoodles are slightly underbaked which creates that super soft texture.

No need for eggs or dairy to give these cookies the soft texture they deserve.

How to make The Best Vegan Snickerdoodles:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a large mixing bowl, use a handheld mixer on medium-high speed to cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the applesauce, vanilla, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt. Beat on medium until creamy and combined.
3. Add the flour. Beat on low until a soft dough forms. You may need to go in with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula to press the dough together.
4. To make the cinnamon sugar, whisk together ¼ cup sugar and 1 tbsp cinnamon. Use a 1.5 tbsp cookie scoop to portion dough. Roll the dough into a bowl, coat in cinnamon sugar mixture, then roll again to form an even ball. Place dough balls on prepared baking sheet.
5. If making the streusel: In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Add the softened butter and use a fork to mash into the flour until fully incorporated. Mixture should feel like wet sand. Make a small indent into the center of each dough ball using your thumb. Spoon in a heaping tbsp of streusel. Slightly press streusel down into the dough to secure.
6. Bake cookies for 11 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes on baking sheet before transferring to a wire cooling rack. Drizzle with icing, if desired. Enjoy!

So how do you achieve the perfect snickerdoodle texture without eggs? The ideal ratio of leavening agent to acidity.

Traditionally, cream of tartar is added to snickerdoodles to create the chewy texture. Cream of tartar is an acidic component and reacts with baking soda to create a rise to the final product. We could just leave it like that and only do baking soda and cream of tartar, but without eggs, the texture and rise would not be sufficient. That is where another acidic component comes in, applesauce.

Applesauce also will react with baking soda to create that extra fluff. It is also a great egg substitute in baking. 1/4 cup of applesauce will replace 1 egg in almost any baked good recipe!

Why you’ll love these Vegan Snickerdoodles:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a large mixing bowl, use a handheld mixer on medium-high speed to cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the applesauce, vanilla, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt. Beat on medium until creamy and combined.
3. Add the flour. Beat on low until a soft dough forms. You may need to go in with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula to press the dough together.
4. To make the cinnamon sugar, whisk together ¼ cup sugar and 1 tbsp cinnamon. Use a 1.5 tbsp cookie scoop to portion dough. Roll the dough into a bowl, coat in cinnamon sugar mixture, then roll again to form an even ball. Place dough balls on prepared baking sheet.
5. If making the streusel: In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Add the softened butter and use a fork to mash into the flour until fully incorporated. Mixture should feel like wet sand. Make a small indent into the center of each dough ball using your thumb. Spoon in a heaping tbsp of streusel. Slightly press streusel down into the dough to secure.
6. Bake cookies for 11 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes on baking sheet before transferring to a wire cooling rack. Drizzle with icing, if desired. Enjoy!

Soft & fluffy. These snickerdoodle cookies are beautifully fluffy, soft, & pillowy and will simply melt in your mouth.

Perfectly sweetened. These cookies are sweet but not TOO sweet. They are sweetened with granulated sugar and applesauce.

Easy to make. This cookie recipe couldn’t be simpler. All the dough ingredients are made in one-bowl, coated in cinnamon sugar, and transferred to a baking sheet to bake for 10 minutes.

Perfect holiday dessert. Snickerdoodles scream holiday season to me. Serve these at your holiday party to impress your guests!

If you’re looking for more holiday cookie recipes, you’ll also love these Chewy Maple Pecan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, these Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies, and these Cinnamon Roll Cookies.

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