Frosted Soft Sugar Cookies – a Vegan and Gluten Free version of a childhood favorite! chewy soft with fluffy buttery frosting and sprinkles – just as you remember!
Frosted Soft Sugar Cookies
Soft and fluffy cookies. Who doesn’t like this classic cookie, right?
Jason brought a cookie home from his dentist appointment last week. An Easter cookie. A soft frosted sugar cookie, Lofthouse style.
I immediately had a craving, and looked through my old recipes from college.
and yeah – are you laughing because our dentist office gives out cookies? A couple years ago on Halloween, I tried my first Airhead candy because my dentist was raving about them. Dental job security, I guess?
So, these cookies. I veganized a recipe I used for holiday cookies in college. A friend called while I was making the first batch on Thursday afternoon, and I ended up making her a batch with the thinner frosting.
I still wanted the thicker, buttery frosting that is traditional with the Lofthouse style, so another batch was made the next day.
Originally, I just had a craving – I wasn’t making these cookies for the blog at all! Then, some of the cookies I made for my friend ended up in the hands of her newly dairy free friend.
She wanted the recipe for Easter, and she ended up making the cutest egg shaped cookies! She used the thinner frosting so she could pipe it like a decorated egg – so cute!
Whether a holiday or a Thursday, use any frosting style and sprinkles combination you like! Once again, I am using my favorite bright and colorful vegan sprinkles here…
Frosted Soft Sugar Cookies Vegan Gluten Free
YIELD: 28-32 cookies, depending on size
dairy, egg, and gluten free, vegan
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/4 cups gluten free all purpose flour
1/2 cup brown rice flour
1/4 cup cornstarch
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 cup vegan powdered sugar
1/2 cup vegan granulated sugar
1/2 cup vegan butter (Earth Balance BAKING sticks)
1/4 cup aquafaba
3 tablespoons cashew milk
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract or paste
INSTRUCTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 °F. Line a baking sheet with parchment. Set aside.
In mixing bowl, sift together flours, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In another bowl with a hand mixer (or stand mixer), cream together powdered sugar, milk, butter, aquafaba, and vanilla.
Add dry mixture while continuing to mix, combining completely to a thick dough.
Using a scoop for uniform size, scoop onto prepared baking sheet.
Bake at 350 °F for 8-10 minutes. Cool completely before frosting.
Fluffy Sugar Cookie Frosting
dairy, egg, and gluten free, vegan
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup vegan butter (Earth Balance BAKING sticks)
2 1/2 cups vegan powdered sugar
natural food coloring (1 tablespoon beet juice)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract or paste
vegan sprinkles
INSTRUCTIONS:
Using a stand or hand mixer, beat butter. Add powdered sugar by the cupful as you continue mixing, until all sugar is incorporated. Scrape sides of bowl with spatula as needed. Add food color and vanilla, combine.
Frost cooled cookies and add sprinkles.
Thin Sugar Cookie Frosting
dairy, egg, and gluten free, vegan
INGREDIENTS:
2 1/2 cups vegan powdered sugar
2 tablespoons cashew milk
natural food coloring (beet juice)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract or paste
vegan sprinkles
INSTRUCTIONS:
Combine (sifted) powdered sugar, milk, food color, and vanilla. Stir until smooth.
Frost cooled cookies and add sprinkles.
Back to the dentist – ha!
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ABOUT KRISTINA: Kristina is spabettie! She founded spabettie in 2010 to share vegan recipes. As the sole recipe developer and photographer, Kristina turned her culinary training into the best way to spend her days – sharing just how flavorful and vibrant vegan food is! She loves dachshunds, Portland, Hawaii, drummers – well, one drummer – and travel.
printable Frosted Soft Sugar Cookies recipe:
Frosted Soft Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16
Serving Size:
2 cookies
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 130Fluffy Sugar Cookie Frosting
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16
Serving Size:
2 cookies worth of frosting
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 129Thin Sugar Cookie Frosting
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16
Serving Size:
2 cookies worth of frosting
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 81
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Brittany says
Is there substitute you can recommend for the cornstarch? If so, how much would you recommend? I can’t eat corn. Thanks!
Kristina Sloggett says
hi Brittany! you can use arrowroot, potato, or tapioca starch in place of cornstarch. in this instance, I’d use potato or tapioca – the same amount. you can also just add another 1/4 cup brown rice flour if you’d like. (this particular combination of flours is what I use to mimic a “cake flour” blend.) enjoy!
Alisa Fleming says
OMG! I just spotted these cookies and they look perfect for the Christmas holidays, too! I SO remember those addictive Lofthouse cookies and these look so much better.
Hannah says
These are the *exact* kinds of cookies that I gravitate towards at vegan bakeries! I’ve never tried making my on, but it’s probably time that I do 🙂
Laura @ Sprint 2 the Table says
I secretly LOVE when people bring the “trashy” grocery store version of these to parties. There’s some absolutely addicting about them. These look fabulous… and I love that you used aquafaba! I really want to make something with that.
OH… and thick frosting always wins. 😉
Kristina Sloggett says
RIGHT?? every now and then, I just have a craving for a piece of grocery store sheet cake, ha! these cookies are the same thing for me! I had too many yesterday – sugar high – but every now and then? yep.
Elle says
Will have to try these. My husband loves sugare cookies so I will make some for HIM! HAHAHA! I have not baked with aquafaba before so will be an experiment for me. Tbanks for the motivation!
Kristina Sloggett says
oh yay, Elle! I am still sorta stunned by the aquafaba thing… and love that it is an easy by-product of something we eat so often anyway! hope your husband likes these! 🙂
Casey the College Celiac says
These look EXACTLY like the cookies I’d have as a kid or bring to class for a party. Witchcraft I tell you – hard to believe they’re gluten free and vegan!!!
Kristina Sloggett says
hee HEE – exactly, Casey! I was SO HAPPY with the result – that fluffy, cakey almost fall apart texture? check, check, check!