You might also like these recipes for vegan sugar cookies and vegan gluten-free sugar cookies. These vegan cardamom sugar cookies are delicious. They are slightly chewy, which I love, and sweet, with a hint of cardamom for that je ne sais quoi. They are also just the perfect base for this gooey, mango-ey icing free of any artificial colors, although you could eat them without any icing at all. These chewy sugar cookies don’t need cookie cutters – roll them out into little balls and place them on the baking sheet. Couldn’t be easier. Check to get new recipe updates by email.
The mango icing was a bit of a brainwave. I have used artificial coloring in the past while making cookies and cupcakes, but when I can use natural, which is far safer, why wouldn’t I? The mango adds a lovely orange hue, and it adds that marvelous flavor that goes perfectly with the cardamom in the cookies. The other natural coloring/flavoring agent I’ve added to my frosting in the past has been orange juice, which adds a lovely yellow color. I’ve also seen beet juice and turmeric often used as natural dyes although I’m not sure I’d love the bitter flavor of turmeric in a sweet frosting. Have you experimented with natural dyes in your icing or frosting? The holidays are almost here, folks. We finally got our tree up this past weekend, and Billy promptly attacked it. He is really cute and a royal pain, all rolled into a beautiful, black-and-white package. He sneaks up to the tree when no one is watching, and has tried a number of shenanigans, including one attempt to climb the tree. Now, every morning, when Desi comes down to make the tea, he finds at least one ornament broken or torn to shreds. I have never had any of my cats do this in the past, but Billy is in a league of his own.
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