Easy Chewy Cinnamon Cookies Recipe – Gluten Free and Vegan

I have a new favorite type of cookie; I’ve made it 3 times over the past 2 weeks and it tastes delicious and gets rave reviews. It is basically an updated version of my cream of tartar free gluten free vegan snickerdoodles, except these are no fuss, no rolling in cinnamon sugar, no needing measuring cups or measuring spoons even, and no multiple steps. Its as low fuss as cookies come, and takes 15 minutes start to finish to make it, possibly longer if your oven takes more than 5 minutes to preheat.

The texture of this cookie is the perfect chewy cookie, like a chewy chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate chips, just cinnamon flavored instead. I highly recommend that you make it just on a lined baking rack and not a tray if you want just chewy and not crispy at all, because the metal of the baking sheet/oven tray crisps up the bottom a bit, while still keeping the cookie chewy in the center. They’re good both ways, but that’s just my preference.

Just a note, these spread out a lot, so give them lots of room. I have a double wide oven and do two trays worth; if you have a regular sized oven you’ll need to do 4 trays worth. This makes roughly 36 cookies.

I make this without any measuring cup, just using a regular cup and eyeballing half and quarter cups, for the syrup using a little less than a quarter cup. I use a regular teaspoon for this, not a measuring spoon. It’s very forgiving.