8 Vegan Mixes for Easier Holiday Baking
Check out these eight vegan mixes for your holiday baking needs. Throw on an apron, grab the mixing spoon, and queue up the Christmas carols. It’s time to impress the fam with your mad plant-based baking skills.
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‘Okina
This gluten-free brand uses only the best organic ingredients and delivers them straight to your door. Relying on small batch grains and supporting regenerative farming, they offer up Banana Chocolate Chip Muffin Mix, Pumpkin Spice Muffin Mix, Zucchini Double Chocolate Muffin + Bread Baking Mix, and more. Can’t decide? Go with the complete collection!
Snacktivist
Wrap up some gluten-free, ancient grain cookies or brownies this season with the help of baking mixes from Snacktivist. Headed to a holiday potluck and not sure what to make? No worries! Take along a loaf of Artisan Multigrain Bread that’s gluten-free, non-GMO, and allergen-friendly. And don’t forget their waffle mix for breakfast the next morning!
Namaste Foods
Women-owned, family operated, and gluten- and “top 8” allergen-free, this plant-based brand has you covered when it comes to the holidays. Whether it’s waffles, pizzas, cakes, brownies, or muffins and scones, Namaste has what you need. Cooking for one? Try their Cake Cup mix, available in Organic Dark Chocolate, Organic Cinnamon Sugar, or Organic Yellow.
Krusteaz
Keep your holiday mornings simple and cook up some great memories at the same time with the Beligan waffle or blueberry pancake mix from Krusteaz. This brand makes vegan shopping on their site easy by listing ingredients for all their mixes. Simply click the blend that looks good, hit that drop down menu, choose “ingredients,” and voilá—Can I bake it? Yes, I can!
Enjoy Life
You know them for their chocolate chips, you’ll love them for their brownie mix! That, and also for their pancake + waffle mix and their muffin mix. In addition to being gluten-free, all of Enjoy Life’s products are devoid of the top 14 allergens. Bake up a few batches, knowing that everyone on the guest list can enjoy.
Foodstirs
For when you want your sweets, but you want to health it up, too, Foodstirs cleans up the junk with organic and non-GMO ingredients, lower sugar, fair-trade chocolate, and glyphosate residue free products (whew!—that’s just a fancy word for the most commonly used herbicide). How do they holiday? With Very Merry Gingerbread Cookie & Cake Mix, Snickerdoodle Blondie Mix, Double Chocolate Sea Salted Brownie Mix, Sweet Tooth Sugar Cookie, and Warm Apple Spice Coffee Cake.
Vixed Baking Company
Woman-owned Vixed (vegan + mixed = Vixed) has you covered if you’re looking to make some banana bread or chocolate chip muffins for that Zoom office party. Banana bread is having a moment this year, after all. Why not celebrate it? Just add oil, dairy-free milk, and—you guessed it!—bananas.
Neat
What do you get when a vegan egg is blended right into a baking mix? You get the Neat Cowgirl Cookie Mix! These cookies are vegan, non-GMO, gluten-free, soy-free, and easy AF to make. Don’t forget to grab a pack of their Cinnamon Pecan pancakes for the big brunch.
Tammie Ortlieb
@tammieortliebTammie, a VegOut OG and vegan of 16 years, is a former psychology professor and self-proclaimed super-woke wellness guru. Indie author, dreamer, and TikTok rockstar wannabe, she lives to make the world a kinder place.
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