Are Biscoff Cookies Vegan? Yes, and Here Is Exactly Why

Biscoff cookies have that rare superpower: a caramelized crunch that tastes like it must contain butter, yet does not. If you have ever stood in the cookie aisle or stared at the little red wrapper next to your airplane coffee wondering whether you can actually eat it as a vegan, here is the full answer.

The quick answer

Yes, Lotus Biscoff cookies are vegan. The original caramelized cookie contains no milk, no eggs, no butter and no other animal ingredients. The same goes for the Biscoff spread. Watch out with the chocolate-covered varieties and the Biscoff ice cream though: both contain dairy.

Why the classic Biscoff cookie is vegan

The Biscoff is a speculoos cookie from Belgium, baked to nearly the same recipe since 1932. And that recipe is refreshingly short: wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oils (palm and rapeseed), candy sugar syrup, sodium bicarbonate as a raising agent, soy flour, salt and cinnamon. That is the whole list.

The signature caramel flavor does not come from butter or cream. It comes from the candy sugar syrup that caramelizes during baking. That is exactly why the cookie works without a single animal product.

One thing American readers often ask about: bone char. In the US, some cane sugar is filtered through charred animal bones, which is why strict vegans double-check the sugar in their snacks. Biscoff cookies are baked in Belgium, and European sugar comes almost entirely from sugar beets, where bone char filtration plays no role. The cookies sold in the US are imported from that same Belgian bakery, so the sugar question is a non-issue here.

Which Biscoff products are vegan (and which are not)

*The asterisk matters if you have a milk allergy: the sandwich cookies carry a trace warning because of shared production lines. For ethical vegans, trace notes are generally not a dealbreaker, since they describe cross-contamination risk rather than an ingredient.

While you are checking snack shelves: we also ran the same test on Toblerone and Twiglets.

Biscoff lattes and the TikTok recipes

Biscoff has had a Dubai-chocolate-level hype run in recent years: TikTok is full of Biscoff cheesecakes, Biscoff rolls and the infamous Biscoff latte with spread dripping down the glass. The good news: almost all of these recipes can be veganized one to one, because the cookie and the spread are already plant-based. Even Lotus itself lists vegan cheesecake, waffle and overnight oats recipes on its official site.

The trap is at the coffee shop: a Biscoff latte is made with cow's milk by default and often topped with whipped cream. The cookie on top is vegan, the rest is not. So as always: ask for oat milk and skip the cream. At home you do not have that problem, and a barista oat milk actually works better because the caramel note does not have to fight the taste of dairy.

Fun fact for festival fans: at Tomorrowland 2026 there is an official Biscoff edition shaped like a medal on a ribbon, and since the classic recipe is accidentally vegan, the medal is too. We covered it in our piece on Tomorrowland's push toward plant-based food.

More vegan product finds like this one are on our Instagram channel @vegan.alarm.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Biscoff spread vegan?

Yes. Both the creamy and the crunchy version consist of ground Biscoff cookies (58%), rapeseed oil, sugar and soy lecithin. No dairy, no eggs.

Does Biscoff contain dairy or eggs?

The original cookie contains neither. Dairy only shows up in specific product lines: the chocolate-covered cookies and the ice cream.

Are Biscoff cookies vegan in the US?

Yes. The cookies sold in the US come from the same Belgian bakery as everywhere else, made with European beet sugar, so the bone char concern around US cane sugar does not apply.

Is the Biscoff medal cookie at Tomorrowland vegan?

Yes. The festival edition uses the classic recipe: wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil, candy sugar syrup. No animal ingredients.