Delish, Recipes

Chocolate-Chip Eggless Cookies

Whether it’s a sweet craving in the middle of the day or night, cookies never seem to disappoint. When you add chocolate chips to them, they become even more heavenly and that melt-in-your-mouth feeling is close to none. It’s a go-to cookie recipe!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 Cup Butter (softened)
  • 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar (soft)
  • 1/2 Cup Castor Sugar
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 1 + 1/4 Cup All-purpose Flour (maida)
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1-2 Tablespoons Milk
  • 1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips
  • 1 Flax Egg (2 tablespoons ground flax seeds + 1 tablespoon water, mixed and rested for 5 minutes)

Preparation

Prep: 10 minutes
Cooking: 15 minutes

  1. In a large bowl, beat the butter with brown sugar and castor sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.
  2. Add the flax egg and vanilla extract. Mix well.
  3. In the same bowl, add flour and baking soda. Mix well to combine the dry and the wet ingredients.
  4. Add 1-2 tablespoons of milk if the dough is too dry. Refrigerate the cookie dough for 30 minutes.
  5. Pre-heat the oven to 180*C and line the baking tray with parchment paper.
  6. Use an ice-cream scoop to transfer the dough into balls on the baking tray.
  7. Press them lightly with your fingers and place chocolate chips on top.
  8. Bake the cookies at 180*C for 10 minutes until the edges of the cookies are golden-brown.
  9. Let the cookies rest on the baking tray for another 10 minutes (outside the oven) before you lift them. Your eggless chocolate chip cookies are ready!

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Priyal and Priyanka Shah

PR Analyst and Management Consultant by profession, we are Priyal and Priyanka Shah - twins with a shared love for travelling and exploring the world. When we're not sitting at our respective desks, we do volunteer work. Our most enriching experience has been volunteering at a Syrian Refugee Camp in Greece, leading skill development activities for the refugees' physical and emotional growth. Big believers of giving back to the society, you will often find us volunteering at orphanages, old age homes and serving the needy. Serving as the Directors of the United Nations Young Changemakers Conclave and Co-Founders of Project Saarthi, we are dedicated to doing our bit in bettering the world around us. When it comes to food - we dive headfirst into all things chocolate and scouting for good avocado toast places around town. During the lockdown though, we took up cooking slightly seriously by making meals for the needy and spreading joy through food.