Vegan Halloween Cookies
A spook-tacular treat! These vegan Halloween cookies are so much fun for your kids to get involved with this Halloween, and look and taste great! Ready in less than half an hour and with a classic vegan chocolate chip cookie as the base.
I was a little slow on the Halloween front this year - I tried and failed to make some eyeball cake pops a couple of weeks back and I'll be honest, the experience was such a nightmare that I all but gave up on making anything spooky or scary at all this year!
Thankfully, inspiration came back to me on the day and I whipped up a batch of these easy vegan Halloween cookies to give out to friends the same evening.
Making these Halloween cookies
I used a simple vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe as the base of these Halloween cookies, but you could really use whatever your favourite recipe is and then decorate!
The chocolate chip recipe uses coconut oil instead of butter, and a flax egg instead of eggs. The rest is simply flour, baking powder, sugar, plant-based milk, and vegan chocolate chips.
You can find the instructions to decorate the cookies as shown in the photos: with witch's fingers, and with cute spiders!
Vegan Halloween Cookies
Ingredients
- 260 g Plain flour
- 0.5 teaspoon baking powder
- 0.5 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch salt
- 50 g Coconut oil
- 60 g Coconut sugar
- 60 t Caster sugar
- 2 tablespoon ground flaxseed mixed with 4 tbsps water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 30 g vegan chocolate chips
- Strawberry jam
- Thick vegan biscuits vegan shortbread
- Green icing
- Red icing
- Flaked almonds
- 30 g dark chocolate
- 12 vegan malteasers/chocolate balls
- 24 vegan white chocolate chips
- Icing
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C and line a baking tray with parchment paper
- Combine the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt)
- In a separate bowl, combine the wet ingredients (flax egg, vanilla, sugar, and oil)
- Combine the wet ingredients with the dry, and then fold in the chocolate chips. If the mix is too dry, you can add a little plant-based milk to help form the dough.
- Use an ice cream scoop to spoon balls of the cookie dough onto your baking tray, and bake for 10 minutes until the cookies are golden.
- Allow to cool before decorating
To make the witch's fingers- Scoop a small section out of the middle of the cookie, and add a spoonful of jam
- Carve your shortbread biscuit into a rough finger shape, slightly pointed at the end
- Ice the biscuit with green icing, using red icing for the end of the finger and nail bed
- Place a flaked almond on the tip of the finger, then place the witch's finger in the jam
To make the spider topping- Melt the dark chocolate. Use a spoon or a syringe to line 8 legs and a small circle of chocolate in the centre of the cookie
- Press the chocolate balls into the melted chocolate in the centre of the cookie, one behind the other.
- Use a dab of melted chocolate to stick your white chocolate chips to one of the balls for eyes, and add a dab of black icing for the eye balls
