The texture and flavor of a cookie with the ease of a bar? Talk about the perfect dessert! Introducing: cranberry orange cookie bars! 

These chewy, buttery cookie bars are packed with zesty orange flavor and pops of tart cranberries. Your new go-to treat awaits with just 1 bowl and 8 ingredients required! Did we mention they’re vegan and gluten-free? No one else has to know.

Cranberry Orange Cookie Bars (Vegan + Gluten-Free) from Minimalist Baker →

Friends, prepare to level up your muffin game with these undetectably vegan and gluten-free lemon poppy seed muffins! They’re perfectly sweet, tender, FLUFFY, and bursting with bright, lemony goodness. 

Made in just 1 bowl, they’re just as fun to make as they are to eat! Let’s get baking!

How to Make Vegan Gluten-Free Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

These super FLUFFY muffins begin with using an electric mixer to cream together the vegan butter, cane sugar, and lemon zest.

Gluten-Free Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins (Vegan) from Minimalist Baker →

If you love chocolate covered caramels, but not the complicated methods usually required to make them, then this recipe is for you! These EASY vegan sea salt caramels come together with just 6 ingredients and there’s NO candy thermometer in sight.

The secret? Tahini! It adds a decadent flavor to these bite-sized delights for the ultimate salty-sweet treat. Perfect for keeping in the freezer or gifting over the holidays…though we’re not sure how many of these tasty treats will make it to the gift box 😉.

Chocolate Tahini Caramels (No Candy Thermometer!) from Minimalist Baker →

Say hello to crispy, buttery shortbread cookies studded with pecans and dark chocolate (swoon!). These cookies are our vegan and gluten-free twist on Alison Roman’s legendary Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies and (just like Alison’s), they’re too good to eat just one!

Just 7 ingredients and simple methods stand in your way. Grab your mixing bowl and let’s bake, friends!

Chocolate Pecan Shortbread Cookies (Vegan + GF) from Minimalist Baker →

Cranberry + orange: a dynamic duo! This duo has made delicious muffins, crisp, and cranberry sauce, and now a new cranberry + orange favorite joins the Minimalist Baker family: scones! 

These EASY, 1-bowl scones are fluffy, citrusy, lightly sweetened, generously studded with fresh cranberries, and undetectably vegan + gluten-free. Perfect for holiday breakfasts, brunches, and beyond! Let us show you how it’s done!

These fluffy, tender, gluten-free scones get their perfect texture from a mix of almond flour, oat flour, and potato starch.

1-Bowl Cranberry Orange Scones (Vegan + GF) from Minimalist Baker →

It’s no secret we love cornbread and have shared recipes for it before (exhibits A and B). And we wouldn’t be posting another version if it wasn’t worth it. So trust us…it’s worth it! This FLUFFY, moist gluten-free cornbread is naturally sweetened with honey, SO flavorful, and seriously EASY to make. 

Just 1 bowl and 8 ingredients stand between you and the best gluten-free cornbread.

Easy Gluten-Free Cornbread (1 Bowl!) from Minimalist Baker →

Looking for a cookie filled with fall flavor? This is it! Fluffy, cinnamon-spiced, pecan-studded pumpkin oat cookies made in 1 bowl in 30 minutes! 

These vegan + gluten-free treats are easy, delicious, and extra irresistible when topped with pumpkin spice frosting. Preheat your oven…it’s cookie time!

These 1-BOWL fluffy fall dreams start with melted (vegan) butter, brown sugar, pumpkin purée, and vanilla extract.

Fluffy Pumpkin Oat Cookies (1 Bowl!) from Minimalist Baker →

Frosting lovers, rejoice! We have the perfect pairing for your favorite pumpkin bread, cookies, spice cake, and more: Pumpkin spice buttercream frosting! It’s decadent, sweet, buttery (but vegan + dairy-free!), and perfectly pumpkin-spiced. 

This fluffy fall dream is just 1 bowl, 5 minutes, and 4 ingredients away. Grab your favorite pumpkin treat and let’s get to frosting!

Vegan Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting from Minimalist Baker →

Nothing says cozy season quite like apple butter and snickerdoodle cookies. But combined into ONE? These apple butter snickerdoodles are ultra COZY! They’re soft, fluffy, cinnamon-filled, packed with apple flavor, and dare we say they rival apple cider donuts!?

These fall-filled treats are vegan, gluten-free, and come together with just 10 ingredients. Preheat your oven and let’s bake some cookies!

How to Make Apple Butter Snickerdoodles

These cookies begin like any good fluffy cookie: with creaming (vegan) butter and sugar.

Apple Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies (Vegan + GF) from Minimalist Baker →