Last updated April 30, 2025.
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than by baking Earth cookies and sharing them?
Ok, maybe lots of ways, but these are fun to make AND you can use almost any cookie recipe! While this idea is not my original idea, I did want to share my methods!
Most recently, I decided to bake my favorite vegan chocolate chip cookies recipe (and my son’s favorite chocolate chip cookie ever) from The Joy of Vegan Baking. After dividing the dough into two batches, I used food gel to color the dough (food coloring will also work). I made 2/3 of the dough blue and 1/3 of it green. I scooped a bit of dough from each bowl, gently rolled them together into balls, and baked them just like I normally would. It worked great! They came out pretty and delicious. I brought them to work and put them out for everyone on April 22, Earth Day! They were gone by 2 pm.
Originally, I made vegan sugar cookies using a recipe for soft-baked vegan sugar cookies from The Mostly Vegan, minus the sprinkles.
My proportions were slightly off, but it worked out. I put the dough in the refrigerator for one hour, per the recipe’s instructions. After, I took small chunks of both dough colors, formed them into a ball, and flattened them.
As you can see, they weren’t perfect, but they were pretty cool! Here’s what they looked like post-baking:
Since I used some coconut oil in these, they came out sweet and slightly coconutty – very tasty! My then 6-year-old certainly liked them and enjoyed special Earth cookies for Earth Day!
If you make Earth cookies, I’d love to hear how yours came out! Thanks for reading, please share and subscribe.