Soft Olive Oil Sugar Cookies (Dairy-free)
A dairy-free sugar cookies recipe that uses olive oil and apple sauce instead of butter.
Servings: 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup apple sauce
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Optional- coarse sugar to roll the dough in before baking
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together with a fork.
- In another bowl, mix the olive oil, sugar, egg, apple sauce and vanilla with a hand held mixer.
- Pour half of the dry ingredients into the bowl of the wet ingredients and mix with your hand-held mixer. Add the other half of the dry ingredients and mix again. You may need to scrape the sides of the bowl as you do this.
- Using a small cookie scoop, or a spoon, scoop out 1 Tbs sized balls of the dough and place on a cookie sheet.
- Note: if you want to roll the dough in coarse sugar, do this prior to placing the balls of dough on a cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, then remove the cookies from the oven and let them sit on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes before moving them to cool on a cookie rack.
Notes
*Use a light colored and flavored olive oil. You can also use avocado oil.
*You can use pear sauce instead of apple sauce
*If adding sprinkles, add to the dough before scooping.
*If dunking your cookies into course sugar, scoop them out first then dunk them.
*Make sure not to overbake!
Nutrition
Calories: 109kcal | Carbohydrates: 16.5g | Protein: 1.3g | Fat: 4.5g