A selection of 30 Gluten-Free Vegan Christmas Cookies, including chocolate cookies, oatmeal cookies, fruit cookies, chocolate chip cookies and nutty cookies as well as festive ones like Sugar Cookies and Gingerbread Cookies.
All of these cookies are also refined sugar free, and some are grain-free and paleo too.
These Gluten-Free Vegan Christmas Cookies also make great homemade edible gifts!
Tips for packaging Christmas cookies for gifting
- Make sure the cookies have cooled completely before packing, otherwise they will release steam, which will make them soggy!
- Cookies without frosting are much easier to package for gifting - you can easily stack them on top of each other to wrap in baking paper or put in a tin or Tupperware.
- Cookies with frosting are slightly harder to package - they can't be stacked on top of each other so need to be laid completely flat along the bottom of a tin or Tupperware.
Other relevant posts
- For more vegan homemade edible gift ideas, check out my Vegan Gift Guide!
- For more festive desserts, check out my 75 Vegan Christmas Recipes post!
1. Chocolate Cookies
Chewy, fudgy, seriously indulgent chocolate cookies filled with pockets of even more chocolate! Also grain-free and paleo.
2. Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Soft, chewy and fragrant oatmeal cookies filled with sweet raisins!
3. Sugar Cookies
These Sugar Cookies are soft and chewy, slightly fluffy and covered in a rich, creamy cashew frosting. Plus they're super pretty and colourful!
4. Snickerdoodles
Soft and chewy vanilla cookies covered in toasty cinnamon sugar!
5. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
Rich and nutty. chewy and crispy cookies packed with peanut flavour!
6. Gingerbread Cookies
These Gingerbread Cookies are crispy yet chewy, fragrantly spiced and super adorable!
7. Banana Oatmeal Cookies
These Banana Oatmeal Cookies are fragrant, taste like banana bread and are filled with chunks of chocolate!
8. Ginger Cookies
These Ginger Cookies are soft and chewy, warmly spiced and perfectly sweet! Also grain-free and paleo.
9. Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft and chewy oatmeal cookies studded with sweet chocolate chips!
10. Peanut Butter Cookies
Soft, fudgy, rich and "buttery" cookies packed with peanut flavour! Also grain-free.
11. Carrot Cake Cookies
Subtly spiced carrot cake cookies filled with juicy raisins and fragrant coconut!
12. Chocolate Chip Cookies
Crispy, chewy and "buttery" cookies studded with chocolate chips!
13. Chocolate No-Bake Cookies
These Chocolate No-Bake Cookies are fudgy, chewy, rich and satisfying. They’re super easy and take just 15 minutes to make!
14. Almond Butter Cookies
These Almond Butter Cookies are soft and fudgy and require just 3 ingredients to make! Grain-free, oil-free and paleo.
15. Coconut Macaroons
These Coconut Macaroons are soft and chewy, fragrant and nutty and require just 5 ingredients to make! Grain-free and nut-free.
16. Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
These Pumpkin Sugar Cookies are soft and chewy, slightly fluffy, fragrantly spiced and covered in a rich, tangy “cream cheese” frosting.
17. Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies
These Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies are soft and fluffy, sweet and tangy, and a little nutty.
18. Shortbread Cookies
These Shortbread Cookies are crisp and crunchy, melt-in-your-mouth buttery and perfectly salty-sweet!
19. Madeleines
These Madeleines are elegant, perfectly sweet and so fluffy!
20. Pumpkin Cookies
These Pumpkin Cookies are soft and fluffy, seriously moist and covered in a silky “cream cheese” frosting.
21. Lemon Cookies
These Lemon Cookies are soft and chewy, slightly fluffy and perfectly tangy. They’re covered in a rich, creamy lemon frosting too!
22. Millionaire Shortbread
This Millionaire Shortbread (Caramel Slice) is the best sweet treat: a “buttery” shortbread base topped with fudgy caramel and silky-smooth chocolate.
23. Lemon Blueberry Cookies
These Lemon Blueberry Cookies are soft and chewy, fluffy and studded with juicy blueberries. They’re covered in a creamy, tangy lemon frosting too, and taste like Blueberry Muffins!
24. Oatmeal Cookies
These Oatmeal Cookies are perfectly chewy and studded with tart-sweet dried cranberries!
25. Linzer Cookies
These Linzer Cookies are light and tender, melt-in-your-mouth buttery and filled with sweet, sticky jam!
26. Coconut Flour Cookies
These Coconut Flour Cookies are crisp and crunchy, richly “buttery”, and studded with toasty pecans!
27. Orange Cookies
These Orange Cookies are soft and chewy, slightly fluffy and perfectly citrusy! They’re covered in a rich, creamy orange buttercream frosting too.
28. Gingerbread Cookie Bars
These Gingerbread Cookie Bars are soft and chewy, fragrantly spiced and covered in a rich “cream cheese” frosting!
29. Thumbprint Cookies
These Thumbprint Cookies are soft, melt-in-your-mouth "buttery" and filled with sticky, tart-sweet raspberry jam.
30. Homemade Oreos
These Homemade Oreos are crunchy and chocolatey, and filled with a sweet, silky, melt-in-your-mouth cream filling.
- For more vegan homemade edible gift ideas, check out my Vegan Gift Guide!
- For more festive desserts, check out my 75 Vegan Christmas Recipes post!
If you make any of these Gluten-Free Vegan Christmas Cookies, I’d really love to see what you come up with! You can show me by tagging a photo @rhiansrecipes #rhiansrecipes on Instagram! Thank you.
Joshua Howard
Wow! I love cookies! Thank you for these great ideas! Can't wait to try each of them
Rhian Williams
Thank you so much!
YL
Hi Rhian,
Thanks for this amazing collection of cookies.
I want to make some as gifts for friends, and I'm wondering if it is possible to make the dough ahead of time and keep it in the fridge/freezer for a couple of days, and bake on the day I want to deliver the gifts?
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Rhian Williams
Thank you! I would recommend freezing the dough over keeping it in the fridge as it can get quite dry in the fridge. But freezing the dough should work!
Ashley
Ahh thank you!!! I am so excited to have found your fantastic website! I will be perusing and making a list. Stay healthy x
Rhian Williams
Thank you so much, so happy to hear that!