December 11, 2017

by Alyssa

Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies with Matcha Icing

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These Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies are perfect for the holidays. Easy to make, healthy, nut-free and topped with a naturally colored green icing!

Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies topped with a matcha icing! Perfect for the Christmas Holidays!!

Welcome to our first annual cookie week here on SQ!

I've done a few other themed weeks in the past (Whole Grain Week was probably my favorite), and this week I'm so excited to be bringing you an entire week dedicated to healthy holiday cookie recipes! I know it can be hard to avoid sweets this time of year, so rather than overindulging in refined sugar and flour filled treats, now you will have a variety of healthy holiday cookie recipes at your disposal!

First up? Gluten-Free and Vegan Sugar Cookies topped with a simple matcha icing!

Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies topped with a matcha icing! Perfect for the Christmas Holidays!!

This dough is actually based on a really old recipe from the archives with a few twists. I'm making them vegan (so no honey or eggs like the original called for) and I swapped out some of the other flours for oat flour.

It took a few attempts, but I'm thrilled with the final result and I think you're going to love them too!

Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies topped with a matcha icing! Perfect for the Christmas Holidays!!

Just like classic roll out sugar cookies, it's important to let the dough chill. This helps to firm up the fat (in this case coconut oil) and helps make them easier to roll.

One thing to note about coconut oil though is that it gets very solid when chilled, so you'll want to let the dough sit at room temperate for at least 30 minutes before rolling it out.

Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies topped with a matcha icing! Perfect for the Christmas Holidays!!

Now this dough can be a tiny bit temperamental, so I have a few tips for you:

  • Make sure your maple syrup is fully at room temperature before beating it with the coconut oil because that will cause the coconut oil to harden and not distribute evenly in the dough
  • Just before rolling, knead it with your hands a little. You want it to be moldable in your hands, so it needs to be fairly warm.
  • Be gentle when you roll it out. Too much pressure on your rolling pin might cause the dough to crack
  • If the dough does crack, just mold it back together with your fingers
  • And finally…spray your cookie cutters with a little cooking spray to help them slide out of the dough easily

Otherwise, they're pretty darn easy!

Naturally colored green icing using MATCHA powder!

Before I let you go make this lovely little vegan sugar cookies, we need to chat about the ICING!

This is a very standard icing recipe, but with one little twist. Instead of food coloring, we're using matcha to make it green!

Just whisk together your organic powdered sugar, matcha and a little almond milk and you have a vibrant green icing that is naturally colored and super delish!

Want red? Try mixing in beet powder, strawberry powder or raspberry powder!

Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies topped with a matcha icing! Perfect for the Christmas Holidays!!

Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies topped with a matcha icing! Perfect for the Christmas Holidays!!

More Holiday Cookies to Try:

Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies with Matcha Icing

These Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies are perfect for the holidays. Easy to make, healthy, nut-free and topped with a naturally colored green icing! 
Prep Time 2 hours
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Servings 12 cookies
Calories 145kcal
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Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies topped with a matcha icing! Perfect for the Christmas Holidays!!
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Ingredients

for the icing

Instructions

  • Beat together the coconut oil and maple syrup with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add the flax egg and beat until smooth.
  • Add the dry ingredients and mix until the dough sticks together. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, preferably overnight.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  • Line a flat surface with parchment paper, sprinkle with a little flour. Turn the chilled dough onto the surface and allow it to sit for 30 minutes.
  • Gently knead it with your hands until it's pliable, then roll the dough to ¼” thick and cut out with cookie cutters. Remove the extra dough and transfer the cut cookies onto the baking sheet. Repeat with the rest of the dough until you don’t have any left.
  • Bake the cookies for 9 – 11 minutes until they’re nicely golden brown.
  • Cool on a wire rack.
  • When ready to ice, whisk together the icing ingredients, pour into a piping bag and pipe onto the cookies!

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Nutrition

Calories: 145kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 71mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 13g

 

 

These GLUTEN-FREE & VEGAN Sugar Cookies are perfect for the holidays. Easy to make, healthy, nut-free and topped with a naturally colored green icing!
Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies
Gluten-Free & Vegan Sugar Cookies

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  1. Could I substitute the oat flour for Bob’s Red Mill fava & garbanzo bean flour? And if so, do I need to change the measurement at all?

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  3. Thank you for making the printing options large enough that someone with aged eyes, like myself, can see it without having to enlarge!
    Cookies are delicious also!

  4. Love that you use matcha icing. I have never thought of matcha in an icing before, but now I’m thinking ‘duh!” This sounds amazing!!

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