Egg-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Egg-free Chocolate Chip Cookies- soft, chewy, chocolate chip cookies with no eggs required. Very easy to make- a great solution for those who can't eat eggs or when you just don't have any eggs to hand.


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I'm obviously a bit obsessed by eggs and baking at the moment. I recently published a round up of recipes that only need one egg and now here I am with an egg-free cookie recipe!

This recipe was born out of a situation where I wanted to take cookies to a friend who had just had a baby, but I realised at the last moment that I didn't have any eggs left. This happens to me all the time, but I normally have time to nip to the shops. Not this time...

I thought about egg substitutes I could use, and decided, that as eggs in a cookie mainly provide the moisture and bind the dough together, milk would work.

The resulting cookies, have a very slightly different texture, are just a little bit more fragile and only go slightly golden. They hold together well, especially when cooled, but are more prone to breakages when warm. If you have no eggs, or are unable to eat eggs, you'll be very pleased with the cookies that this recipe produces. There's very little difference. They are soft, chewy and chocolatey, just as you'd expect from a decent cookie.

Top Tips

  • Use a food mixer, if you have one, but at the stage when you're adding the chocolate chips, remove the bowl and mix them in by hand so they don't get sliced up too much.
  • Don't be tempted to grease your cookie sheet before baking. These cookies are not sturdy enough to lift off even the best non-stick sheets. However, they do peel beautifully off greaseproof paper, so line your cookie sheet with that instead.
  • When spooning the cookie dough onto the paper, flatten it a little with the back of the spoon. This helps the cookie to spread to the right thickness. If you like them to be round rather than slightly misshapen, you can use the spoon to press the edges to a more uniform shape too. Don't worry if they come out looking puffed up, they quickly sink back to almost flat with those lovely cookie crinkles.

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