My grandma would say there is no such thing as healthy Christmas cookies. No taste without sugar, butter and eggs, and I never really doubted her strict voice in the back of my head. Since I had lived abroad for such a long time and weren’t able to spend Christmas together, we decide to start a Christmas bake marathon a couple of weeks leading towards Christmas.
You can imagine my excitement – because last weekend was t-h-e weekend! And this was when my idea of a vegan Christmas cookie clashed with her old ways of thinking. She figured no dairy, sugar and eggs would equal no taste. But with the help of my technically savvy aunt and her willingness to help my grandma accessing the internet, my grandma presented me with a couple of vegan cookie recipes she found online.
I was so incredibly proud of her for not judging for my way of eating. Instead, she kept an open mind and embraced the idea while being creative with it. We still do some traditional ones for my grandma but we expanded on the vegan selection quite a bit. This year we stepped it up and also tried to make everything much more healthy and mostly sugarfree. So this was the end result of our baking weekend or lets say a tiny selection of it! I am so happy just by looking at that beautiful box of goodness!
As mentioned before all the treats are all natural, vegan and easy to make. The Healthy Vegan Christmas Cookies are all low in sugar, some are raw. But they all have nutritional benefits and some even contain superfoods. In the first part of my Christmas cookies special I am going to share with you the first 3 recipes from this amazing goodie box. Tipsy Date-Walnut-Truffles, Crispy Superfood Fruit Slices, and Vegan German Spitzbuben (which are the ones with the heart in them).
Vegan German Spitzbuben
Ingredients
- 100 g oat flour
- 100 g buckwheat flour
- 70 g ground almonds
- 90 g coconut sugar
- 70 g coconut oil melted
- 60 g almond butter
- 1 tbsp cold water
- 1 chia egg 1 tbsp chia + 3 tbsp water
- 1/4 tsp ground vanilla
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp Xylit to dust the cookies optional
- 1 cup jam
Instructions
- Add in your food processor the melted coconut oil, coconut sugar, almond butter, chia egg and the vanilla until well combined. Add the oat flour, ground almonds, buckwheat flour, baking powder, salt and mix again. If the dough is too dry add a tbsp of cold water.
- Transfer the dough to the fridge for an hour. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.
- Soften the dough with your hands again and roll out on a well floured surface. Cut out the bottom and top pieces and align on a lined baking tray and bake for 8 – 12 minutes at 180°C.
- Once the biskuits have cooled put half a teaspoon of jam on every bottom part and top with cookie with the heart cutout. If you like, dust the cookies with Xylit.
Date-Walnut Truffles
Ingredients
- 100 g dates
- 200 g ground walnuts
- 3 tbsp Kirschwasser/ cherry brandy
- 1/4 tsp ground vanilla
- 1 pinch salt
- 100 g vegan chocolate
- 1 handful hazelnuts to decorate truffles
Instructions
- Add all ingredients into your blender or food processor and blend until well combined and sticky.
- With help of a teaspoon form 15 round truffles.
- Let them set in the fridge for 20 minutes.
- Melt your chocolate and coat each truffle with chocolate and top with a raw hazelnut.
Crispy Chocolate Fruit Slices
Ingredients
- 5 apples sliced and dried in a dehydrator overnight
- 4 kiwi sliced and dried in a dehydrator overnight
- 3 persimmons sliced and dried in a dehydrator overnight
- 100 g vegan chocolate
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
Instructions
- Slice up your fruits and let them dry in the dehyrdator overnight.
- Line a tray with baking paper. Melt the chocolate and dip your fruit slices into the chocolate. Spinkle with superfoods of your choice!
- Superfoods to decorate: I have used dried blueberries, dried mango pieces, dried lingonberries (goji berries, cocona nibs, dried mulberries, coconut flakes, dragonfruit powder could be other options too)
++If you are recreating my Healthy Vegan Christmas Cookies I would love to hear about it! Leave a comment or tag me on Instagram or Facebook @whensweetbecomeshealthy so I don’t miss it. ++
If you cannot get enough of these Healthy Vegan Christmas Cookies, make sure to check out my Matcha Moons and Raw TimTam’s too!