5 Vegan Gingerbread Cookie Ideas for Families to Try This Holiday Season

Finding the best easy vegan gingerbread cookie recipes is essential this holiday season. Luckily, with a few simple non-dairy swaps, making your favorite holiday gingerbread cookie recipes totally vegan is a cinch.

If you are a gingerbread fan, listen up, as these recipes are tried and tested and approved for discerning, delicious vegan tastes. If you have tried these for your holiday parties, let us know your favorites.

This vegan gingerbread cookie recipe from Alison Andrews of Loving It Vegan avoids being overly sweet while using all your favorite fall spices and flax egg to add structure and oomph to this vegan recipe. With a bit of molasses to give these gingerbread men a touch of sweetness, this is a great recipe for the cookie lover in your family who doesn't enjoy things to be sickeningly sweet.

This vegan recipe from Jasmine Briones and Chris Petrellese of Sweet Simple Vegan uses almond milk instead of soy milk, which is a departure from the typical inclusion of soy milk in other similar vegan gingerbread recipes. Especially for those with a soy allergy, this recipe should be a hit.

Not all ginger cookies are made equal, and this statement has never been truer after trying this vegan gingersnap cookie recipe from Michelle Cehn of World of Vegan. I really appreciated the inclusion of ground flaxseed as a vegan egg substitute, which makes these cookies both delicious, more nutritionally sound, and ethical.

Cehn calls these cookies soft and chewy, and she isn't lying. These cookies were enjoyed by family members of all ages, who appreciated the texture, level of sweetness, and structure of the cookies. If you are seeking a ginger cookie recipe that trades gingerbread man style for traditional cookie form, this is the best I have found.

It's impossible not to fall in love with this adorable vegan gingerbread cookie recipe from Carine Claudepierre of Conscious Plant Kitchen. While Claudepierre offers almond milk in this recipe, she says that other non-dairy milk types can be used, too.

The inclusion of holiday buttons on the gingerbread men during the decoration portion of the recipe made this one a hit for the kids in my family for whom I baked these. The flavor turned out to be excellent. While Claudepierre recommends that these can stay in a cookie jar unrefrigerated for about a week, they certainly didn't last that long, with my hungry family members gobbling them up.

These classic vegan gingerbread man cookies from Jeanine Donofrio of Love and Lemons are the most different from other similar vegan recipes. The ingredients in this recipe are what really caught my eye, with coconut sugar, coconut oil, spelt flour, almond butter, and ground flaxseed among the unique additions that aren't often found elsewhere.

If you are seeking alternatives to traditional baking ingredients, this recipe is definitely for you. I really enjoyed the inclusion of almond butter and coconut oil, which added a nice texture and creaminess to the cookie.