These Apple Cider Cookies are chewy, sweet and flavored with apple cider. Only requiring 9 ingredients I know you'll love these vegan apple cider cookies.
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Why you will love this recipe
- Great texture: These soft and chewy easy Apple Cider Cookies have vegan butter, sugars and a hint of vanilla creamed together with apple cider giving these cookies a spiced sweetness and the perfect texture.
- Easy-to-Make: Tasty and homemade, this vegan Apple Cider Cookie recipe is super quick and easy to make only needing 1 bowl, 8 ingredients (9 ingredients if you add the glaze) and the clean up is quick and easy.
- Vegan: These soft apple cider cookies are vegan and you would never even be able to tell.
- Staying fresh: Store these cookies in a sealed container on the counter for up to 3-4 days it will help keep them soft and chewy, if any cookies last longer than that, I’d freeze them in a freezer safe airtight sealed container for up to 3 months.
If you love vegan cookies check out my Chocolate Chunk Coconut Oat Cookies, Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies or my seasonal Vegan Snickerdoodle Cookies, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies, Vegan Ginger Cookies and Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies I know you will love them all!
For more apple recipes try my Apple Cider Muffins and Apple Crumble.
Ingredients
For a full list of ingredients and measurements check the recipe card below for these vegan Apple Cider Cookies.
- Flour: I used organic unbleached all purpose flour.
- Apple Cider: Store bought apple cider. (not apple cider vinegar or apple juice)
- Vegan Butter: I like to use Miyokos or Earth Balance vegan butter.
- White and Brown Sugar: Both sugars give the perfect texture to these chewy and soft vegan apple cider cookies.
Variations
- Glaze: Many options for this apple cider glaze, first you can skip the glaze completely, second you can drizzle it all over the top of this tasty apple cider cookie. Another option is you can frost the complete top of the cookie or only dip ½ the cookie in the frosting and set them on a drying rack or a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Add Nuts: If you put frosting on the top or dip ½ the cookies in frosting, adding crushed nuts on the top of the frosted cookie is a nice addition and looks pretty, crushed pecans or macadamia nuts are a good topping. Yes this will change the texture and the taste a little bit but if you like nuts it will be delicious.
How to make these Apple Cider Cookies
Prep: Pre-heat the oven to 350° F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Let the butter come to room temp by sitting out for at least 30 minutes to soften.
Step 1: Using a hand mixer add the softened butter to a mixing bowl along with the sugar, brown sugar, apple cider, and vanilla. Mix on low-medium speed until well combined.
Wet ingredients mixed!
Step 2: Add the flour, baking soda and cinnamon optional all spice) and fold together with a spatula.
Step 3: Using a 1 ounce cookie scoop, scoop out dough balls and place them on the lined baking sheet. Place in the oven on the middle rack for 16 minutes, let cool for 30 minutes. (the longer it cools the more apple cider flavor will come though, while it's hot you can't taste the flavor as much. Store in a sealed container on the counter for 3-4 days. If you choose to make the glaze simply add the confectioners sugar to a small bowl with the apple cider and whisk until runny, drizzle on fully cooled cookies.
Expert Tips
- Softened butter: Softened/room temperature butter is not the same as melted butter, be sure to let it sit out for at least 30 minutes, this is so you can mix the wet ingredients with the butter easily.
- Cool the cookies: This is definitely the best apple cider cookies recipe and it's a vegan cookie, be sure you cool the cookies before eating them, as the cookies cool, they set so they don’t fall apart when you pick them up and the flavor enhances.
- Storing: A sealed container is the best way to store these cookies to help keep the cookies soft and chewy. Add a plain white piece of bread to the container (be sure its plain white bread so the cookies don’t take on the flavor of the bread).
- Anytime of the day: Soft and chewy, keep some extras on hand, these are the easiest cookies to grab as a snack anytime of day and also a perfect after dinner treat.
Recipe FAQs
Apple cider is an ingredient that has been used in many recipes like apple cider doughnuts, cakes, candies, desserts and many other types of recipes. Apple cider on its own is a tasty drink either hot or cold or with spices added to the drink but when added to your homemade recipes it adds a spiced sweetness.
If your baking don’t swap apple juice for the apple cider, there’s a difference in taste and flavor. The apple juice is usually sweeter and has more sugar. Apple cider also has lower pH levels than apple juice.
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Ingredients
WET INGREDIENTS:
- ⅓ cup vegan butter (room temperature - 76 grams)
- ⅓ cup cane sugar (67 grams)
- ⅔ cup brown sugar (packed - 147 grams)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup apple cider (75 ml)
- 1 ⅔ cups all purpose flour (unbleached - 208 grams)
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon all spice (optional, makes it warmer but less traditional)
optional glaze:
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 2 teablespoons apple cider (or water)
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350° F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Let the butter come to room temp by sitting out for at least 30 minutes to soften.
- Using a hand mixer add the softened butter to a mixing bowl along with the sugar, brown sugar, apple cider, and vanilla. Mix on low-medium speed until well combined.
- Add the flour, baking soda and cinnamon (optional all spice) and fold together with a spatula.
- Using a 1 ounce cookie scoop, scoop out dough balls and place them on the lined baking sheet. Place in the oven on the middle rack for 16 minutes, let cool for 30 minutes. (the longer it cools the more apple cider flavor will come though, while it's hot you can't taste the flavor as much. Store in a sealed container on the counter for 3-4 days.
- If you choose to make the glaze simply add the confectioners sugar to a small bowl with the apple cider and whisk until runny, drizzle on fully cooled cookies.
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