Simple Vegan Christmas Cookies With Homemade Apricot Jam

If you look for some VEGAN Christmas cookies ideas, you come to a right place! You will love these simple vegan Christmas cookies! They are very easy to make and so simple that even a beginner can make them easily! 

These vegan Christmas cookies are filled with homemade apricot chia seed jam. It’s literally made in 5 minutes! So easy and so yummy!

The Christmas is almost here! I can’t even express how much I am excited! The Christmas time is for sure my most favourite holiday. I get to spend some time with my family, friends, and closed people. I embrace this moment and feel so happy.

This year is very special for me because I make VEGAN Christmas cookies for the first time! I was vegan before but I didn’t make cookies. I already posted a few of my delicious and easy vegan recipes for Christmas cookies but this one is my most favourite so far!

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This dough is so easy that everyone can make it! It takes only 5 minutes to put all the ingredients together and that’s it! Then you leave it to firm up in a fridge for half an hour. After that time all the fun begins! You start cutting out your shapes! For this recipe I used a flower-shaped cutter and a circle-shaped cutter to cut out the centre of a cookie. You can use other shapes, too. If you have a heart-shaped, a star-shaped, or any other shaped cookie cutter, just use them! Everything works fine!

To make jam I used a few very soft apricots I found at the bottom of my fridge. If you don’t have apricots, you can use other kinds of fruits as well. Just think of some fruits which can be easily cooked. For example berries, cherries or plums would be great, too!

I tried to make these vegan cookies low-sugar. That’s why I used sweetener instead of sugar for cookies. You can sue stevia sweetener, for example. The only sugar I used in this recipe was powdered sugar which comes on the top of the cookies. If you feel like keeping these cookies completely off-sugar, don’t sprinkle them with any sugar!

When I cooked the apricot jam I did the same thing and changed maple syrup or sugar for sweetener. If you wish, you don’t have to use any sweetener. Depending on what kind of fruit you use to make your jam, some kind of sweetener might be necessary. For example, if you use plums or cherries, the jam may come out a little bit sour. 

If you want to keep your cookies gluten-free, don’t forget to use gluten-free flour. I used self raising gluten-free flour.

Simple Vegan Christmas Cookies With Homemade Apricot Jam

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Course: Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: apricots, Christmas, Christmas cookies, homemade jam, Jam, simple

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes minutes

Resting Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes minutes

Servings: 10 cookies

Ingredients

For cookies:

• 3 cups gluten-free self raising flour
• 4 tbsp vegan peanut butter
• 1/2 tsp fine sea salt
• 32 drops sweetener (about 2 tbsp)
• 2 tbsp cold water
• powdered sugar for dusting

For homemade apricot jam:

• 5 ripe apricots
• 3 tbsp white chia seeds
• 3 tbsp sweetener optional

Instructions

• Add all the ingredients for cookies to a food processor. Pulse until well combined and a slightly sticky dough is formed. It should be firm and hold together but it shouldn’t be too sticky. If it appears to be too sticky, add a little bit of flour. 
• Make a ball of the dough and wrap it in a cling plastic foil. Place it in a fridge for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile the dough is firming up, prepare the homemade apricot jam. Place apricots in a saucepan and add a splash of water. Cook the apricots for 5 minutes. Lower the heat to minimum and add chia seeds and sweetener, if using. Stir constantly until the jam is formed. Then turn off the heat and set it aside.
• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
• Place the firm dough on a floured surface. Roll out the dough with a dusted rolling pin. Don’t make the dough too thin, about 5 mm should be fine. Cut out shapes with a bigger cookie cutter. Cut out shapes again with a smaller cookie cutter in the centre of the half cut cookies.
• Add a small amount of the apricot jam on a cookie and place the cookie with a cut centre out on a top of the cookie. Squeeze them little bit together.
• Place cookies on a sheet of baking paper in a baking tray. Bake for 6 minutes.
• Dust with powdered sugar through a sifter.
• Enjoy!

Notes

Store the cookies in an air-tight container in a fridge up to one week.

Klara Walterova

Klara is a professional freelance writer for hire. She offers web content, blog posting, ghostwriting and copywriting. She writes for a healthy lifestyle, wellness and travel websites. She focuses on veganism and the vegan diet. When she's not writing, she develops new tasty vegan recipes, travels the world or plays with her cats. Please contact her for her online writing services on her website writtenbyvegan.com or visit her Instagram profile @writtenbyvegan.