Recipes for Chocolate Cookies with and without Eggs
January 16th, 2016
A chocolate cookie is one of the most delicious food items, which are enjoyed by most. It has a crumbly exterior and cracks in which melted chocolate can tease your taste buds. Chocolate cookies can be eaten any time: for tea, for dessert or whenever your tummy growls for a tasty treat.
Some of the important contents of traditional chocolate cookies are eggs. Eggs act as leavening agent, binding agent and providing sufficient moisture to the batter.
But there are certain people who cannot consume eggs. It might be due to medical reasons like allergy to dairy products or personal choice like a vegan or vegetarian. In such cases, these people can enjoy chocolate cookies if they are made with eggless recipes.
Here are recipes for chocolate cookies with and without eggs:
A BASIC RECIPE for chocolate cookies is as follows:
Ingredients:
- 4 scrambled eggs
- 2 cups sugar
Melt these two on low heat such that they do not scald
- Baking chocolate-4 ounces
- Butter-1/4 cup
- Sifted flour—2 cups
- Salt-1/2 tsp
- Baking powder- 2 tsp
- Chopped nuts- half cup
- Confection sugar- ½ cup (for decoration).
Method:
- Combine eggs and sugar and mix well
- After a bit of cooling, add chocolate and melted butter
- Add baking powder, flour, nuts and salt and stir well
- Keep the batter to chill for some hours or overnight
- Using 1 to 2 tbsp batter, roll the dough into small balls. Then roll each ball in confection sugar.
- Keep each ball on greased paper and slow bake for 20 minutes
- Observe how cookie expands and cracks to provide a beautiful chocolate pattern.
- Serve warm
Recipe for Eggless Chocolate Cookies:
Ingredients:
- Self raising flour- 12 oz
- Soft margarine- 8 oz
- Dark chocolate drops- 2 oz (you can also use white chocolate/ raisins)
- Caster sugar-8 oz
Method:
- Mix all ingredients in a big bowl. Knead the dough using hands.
- It should not be crumbly. Use margarine to achieve this.
- Make balls with dough the size of one and half ping pong balls
- Squeeze balls so that they are circle about 1.5 cm thick.
- Keep them on a tray that is greased
- This yields around 20 cookies
- Bake for 15 minutes in an oven, pre-heated to 180 degrees
- Serve hot. Tastes good with milk.
Alternative Recipe for Eggless Chocolate Cookies:
Ingredients:
- Baking soda:1 tsp
- Baking powder: 1 tsp
- Flour- 2 cups
- Salt-1/4 tsp
- Softened butter-1/4 cup
- Sugar-1 cup
- Brown sugar- 2 tbsp
- Vanilla extract-1/2 tsp
- Peanut butter- 1/3 cup
- Cocoa powder- ¼ cup
- Milk-1/2 cup
Method:
- Preheat oven to 190 degrees C.
- Sift together baking powder, baking soda, salt and flour. Keep aside.
- Cream together white sugar, brown sugar and butter in a big bowl.
- Add cocoa powder, peanut butter and vanilla extract and stir well.
- Add sifted materials till well blended.
- Pour milk into dough and mix till fully combined.
- Drop dollops of dough on ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake in oven that is pre-heated till cookies are lightly brown (13-15 minutes).
There are many ways to eat chocolate cookies. They are:
- Cookie sticks: Cut with pizza cutter
- Chocolate cookie pizza
- Chocolate chip cookie cake
- Deep fried chocolate cookie dough
- Chocolate cookie shake
- Chocolate cookie pie
- Chocolate cookie dough football dip
- Chocolate cookie dough cannolis
- Chocolate cookie in a mug
- Chocolate cookie ice cream bars
- Chocolate cookie waffles
- Chocolate cookie dough cup cakes
In sum, there are a variety of recipes and ways of consuming chocolate cookies. They make for excellent chocolate gifts. For loved ones faraway, you can send cookies made of chocolates by post. They are sure to be impressed.