Vegan Coconut Oil Shortbread Cookies with Pumpkin Pie Spice

Easy Vegan Coconut Oil Shortbread Cookies with Pumpkin Pie Spice. These Vegan Shortbread Cookies use coconut oil and non dairy yogurt. No palm oil! Add dried fruits of choice or nuts of choice. Use other shapes!. Holiday Cookie Makes 22 to 24 cookies 

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Holidays are just around the corner and so are the plans to whip up cookies! Though one doesn’t need the holiday season to bake some and enjoy right. 

These are simple shortbread cookies with a few ingredients and spiced with fall spices. I used coconut oil and non dairy yogurt in these. I used refined coconut oil to keep them neutral tasting. Use virgin or refined to preference or use vegan butter.  You can also use thick cashew cream or thick aquafaba instead of yogurt. I haven’t tried these, let me know how it works out if you do. 

I added candied papaya that Mom brought along when she was visiting. Dad loves those candied bits in cakes, cookies and yeasted bread buns. Mom and Dad drink itsy bitsy cups of chai throughout the day (6-7 times!). Breads, cookies, nuts and savory Indian trail mix are their choice of snack with the tea. I am hoping Mom sees this post and whips up a batch. These are just like the bakery biscuits from the neighborhood bakery!

Use any other candied fruit like mango, or dried fruit like apricot or cranberries or nuts like cashews or hazelnuts in these Vegan Shortbread Cookies.  For a gluten-free version try my Gluten free Shortbread Cookies from the blog. Its fall so these are Pumpkin Pie Spice Shortbread Cookies. Use other spices and blends like chai spice or cinnamon or no spice for variations. 

More Holiday Cookies from the blog

• Pistachio Apricot Thumbprint Cookies
• Almond Butter Snickerdoodles
• Gluten free Shortbread Cookies
• Cherry Almond Thumbprint Cookies – Almond Pulp Cookies
• Giant Chocolate Chip and Chunk Cookies

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Steps:

Make the cookie dough. The dough should be soft enough to stick into a ball which you can roll into a log. Not crumbly and not too sticky. Fold in the dried fruit and nuts if using. Roll the dough into a log and freeze for half an hour. Slice the log into 1/4 inch slices. 

Place on parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. 

Cool completely, stack, take a picture and post it on IG! mmmm Pumpkin Pie Spice Shortbread Cookies!

Vegan Coconut Oil Shortbread Cookies with Pumpkin Pie Spice

5 from 6 votes

By: Vegan Richa

Prep: 30 minutes mins

Cook: 20 minutes mins

Total: 50 minutes mins

Servings: 22

Course: Cookie

Cuisine: American

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Easy Vegan Coconut Oil Shortbread Cookies with Pumpkin Pie Spice. These Vegan Shortbread Cookies use coconut oil and non dairy yogurt. No palm oil! Add dried fruits of choice or nuts of choice. Use other shapes!. Holiday Cookie Makes 22 to 24 cookies

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Ingredients 

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• ▢ 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• ▢ 1/4 cup coconut oil, I used refined, semi solid, warm if too solid before using
• ▢ 2.5 tbsp non dairy yogurt
• ▢ 1/2 to 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ▢ 1/2 to 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice, or 1/2 tsp cinnamon,1/4 tsp ginger, and generous pinch of ground nutmeg and cloves
• ▢ 1/8 tsp salt
• ▢ a generous pinch of baking soda
• ▢ 1/2 cup Spelt flour or whole wheat pastry flour
• ▢ 1 cup white unbleached flour
• ▢ 1/4 cup candied papaya, dried cranberries, chopped dried apricots, candied ginger or other dried fruit of choice.

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Instructions 

• In a bowl cream the coconut oil, sugar and non dairy yogurt until smooth and creamy. Add in the vanilla and spices if using. Mix well.
• Mix the baking soda and salt into 1/2 cup spelt flour and add to the bowl. Mix in.
• Add the rest of the flour 1/2 cup at a time and combine well into a soft dough. If too dry, add a spray of water and mix in. If too sticky, add a tbsp or so more flour. Add the dried or candied fruit of choice. Mix into the dough.
• Shape the dough into a 1 to 1.5 inch width log. Fold a parchment sheet over the log and freeze for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F / 160ºc. Remove the log from the freezer. Slice into 1/4 inch thick slices and place on parchment lined sheet.
• Bake for 19 to 20 minutes or till the edges just start to change color. Cool completely and store.
• If your oven runs hot, bake for less time. The cookies get crunchy when over baked.
• Or bake as one shortbread pastry by pressing into brownie pan. Bake at 315 degrees F / 160ºc 30 minutes or longer.

Notes

To make these soft shortbread: Use 1/4 cup fine almond flour + 3/4 cup unbleached all purpose flour instead of all 1 cup unbleached all purpose.

Variation: add some chopped nuts like cashews or pistachios or hazelnuts to the dough.

Nutritional values based on one cookie

Nutrition

Calories: 66kcal, Carbohydrates: 9g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 2g, Sodium: 21mg, Potassium: 9mg, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 15IU, Vitamin C: 1.2mg, Calcium: 3mg, Iron: 0.4mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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