Date/Time
Monday, December 16, 2024
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Vegan Holiday Cookie-Making Class
Bring some festive cheer to your kitchen by learning how to make classic holiday cookies—with a vegan twist!
Join us online for this fun and interactive cooking class where you’ll learn to prepare and decorate delicious gingerbread and sugar cookies. Perfect for sharing with friends and family, these plant-based treats are sure to spread smiles. With Tamuno’s expert guidance, you’ll see how simple and enjoyable it is to bake vegan cookies that taste just as amazing as the traditional ones—our secret ingredient, applesauce, makes all the difference!
Whether you prefer to bake along or watch the demonstration from the comfort of your home, this class is for everyone.
Meet Your Instructor
Tamuno Imbu, our talented Community Organizer and cooking class instructor, loves sharing the joy of plant-based cooking. He’ll walk you step-by-step through the process, from making the dough to baking and decorating.
Don’t miss this chance to get into the holiday spirit and master these festive cookies!
If you’d like to cook along, make sure to gather your ingredients (listed below). See you online for a house-warming cooking experience.
Cook with us online! Register today
We hope you can join us for this fun event. Register today!
Class registration is $5.00 or free for students and people who are unemployed. We want to make sure that everyone who is interested has the ability to participate. The class will take place via Zoom and login instructions will be provided after registration.
The cooking making process
During the class, Tamuno will walk you through the preparation in this order:
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- Mix Gingerbread ingredients
- Chill cookie dough 30 mins
- Make icing
- Make sugar cookies
- Roll and cut sugar cookies
- Bake sugar cookies
- Roll and cut gingerbread cookies
- Bake gingerbread cookies
- Decorate sugar cookies
- Ice gingerbread cookies
Ingredients to have on hand for the cooking class
- GINGERBREAD COOKIE INGREDIENTS:
- 1 ¾ cup gluten free 1-to-1 flour or all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp sea salt
- ½ cup vegan butter or coconut oil, softened
- ¼ cup molasses
- ⅓ cup unsweetened applesauce, room temperature
- ROYAL ICING
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 5–6 tbsp aquafaba (chickpea brine)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- Plant-based food coloring*
- SUGAR COOKIE INGREDIENTS:
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour or 2 cups white flour
- 3⁄4 cup white sugar
- 1⁄2 cup white flour (for dusting)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1⁄4 cup applesauce
- 1⁄2 cup canola oil or 1/2 cup safflower oil
- 3-4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
Serve at your next holiday party or share at home with family and friends.
The Gingerbread recipe comes from Britt Berlin of The Banana Diaries and the Sugar Cookie recipe comes from White Rose Child published on Food.
All about Cooking With Tamuno classes
Cooking with Tamuno is an online cooking class offered monthly on a chosen Monday from 5:30 – 6:30 pm. CAA’s Community Organizer, Tamuno Imbu is our resident chef extraordinaire. Each month, he selects a vegan recipe that is particularly tasty and easy to make. During the class, he slowly and clearly demonstrates the steps to make the meal. He is also more than willing to take questions — he wants to be sure you walk away with the ability to make each recipe on your own.
He shares the ingredients ahead of time so that you can purchase them and cook along in real time. But it’s also okay to just sit back, watch, and learn. No cooking experience is required as he gears this for people who are new to plant-based cooking.
All are welcome to cook
Everyone is welcome at these fun online events. Join Tamuno and learn some plant-based cooking skills, all while having an opportunity to meet some of the youth and other participants. You will come away with new recipes and some handy cooking tips. Be prepared to impress your friends and family with your new-found skills! Or better yet, bring them along to the class so they can get these skills for themselves too.
Young people frequently join the classes through relationships with partner organizations. Tamuno also works with these youth in other ways, including leadership programming and introducing them to the issues surrounding living a more compassionate lifestyle.
Find more vegan cooking recipes and resources
If you are looking for more plant-based recipes, you can go to our page of suggested recipes and to our archive of recipes from our Monthly Vegan Recipe Club (currently this page is under repair — check back later). There are lots of great vegan recipes available to support you on your compassionate journey.