This recipe for vegan koulourakia will allow you to create the beloved Greek Easter cookies without dairy or eggs! These cookies have become a part of holiday celebrations within my small, Greek American family, and I hope that you’ll love their buttery taste and tender texture as much as I do.

Flour, baking powder, and salt are the simple dry ingredients required for the cookies.

You’ll be pouring these dry ingredients either into a stand mixer or into another bowl, so you may wish to use a mixing bowl with a spout.

Step 2: Cream butter and sugar

Next, you’ll cream butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer, or you’ll use a handheld mixer on low speed for the job.

Like many cookie recipes, the process of making koulourakia begins with creaming (vegan) butter and sugar together. The process should take 2-4 minutes and will result in a pale yellow, fluffy, and creamy mixture.
I used to get confused about what “creaming” butter and sugar actually was. Was it different from simply mixing"

Creaming is really just a process of mixing butter and sugar together for long enough that the sugar becomes evenly dispersed into the butter. Creamed butter and sugar should be pale yellow, light, and fluffy.

If you over-cream butter and sugar, they might start to look loose and greasy. This is a mistake that I’ve made many times over!

It’s a little easier to over-cream the mixture if you use a handheld ...