Chocolate Butter Cookies – Eggless & Easy
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Chocolate Cookies – Eggless & Easy
Chocolate Cookies – Eggless & Easy is one recipe that you do not want to miss. What is there to miss about it? These are made of chocolate and have cookies written all over it. No Kidding! 😀
Chocolate is the heart beat of most of the people alive in the world, so much so that there are chocolates available in all kind of imaginary forms, possible.
Cookies and cakes made with chocolate have always scored better in comparison to their “not-so-chocolate” version. Isn’t that true? Well, that is true in my house, to say the least.
I am a vegetarian who eats eggs. Now don’t ask me how and why because in India there are all kinds of vegetarians, that one can categorize. I fall into the category of egg eating vegetarian.
For some reason, I can’t tolerate the strong smell of eggs in cookies. Strange, isnt’t it? Though eggs do wonder to the texture of cookies, but most of my cookies would rather be eggless.
I miss the cookies from Indian Bakery that are soft and buttery. Those cookies are just amazing and melt in the mouth. Some are filled with nuts and others with warm spices. There are cookies flavored with cumin seeds and carom seeds too and they taste just amazing.
Evening tea is no less than a CULT in India. People are busy in their “Chai ka Waqt” around that time. Every household will have a pan boiling with chai and a tray set with cookies of some sort and an evening savory like that of mixtures and mathris etc. It is no less than a party time, a mini meal in itself.
Here is a variety of snacks and tea time accompaniments, popular in India, with Evening Chai – Methi Mathri , Khasta Achari Mathri , Samosa , Kachori , Jelly Thumbprint cookies , Kesar Pista Elaichi Biscuits , Chocolate Walnut Biscuit , Chivda Mix and more.
This is how you make Chocolate Butter Cookies – Eggless & Easy !
Chocolate Cookies - Eggless & Easy
Ingredients
- All purpose Flour - 3/4 cup
- Coco powder unsweetened - 1/4 cup
- Sugar - 1/2 cup
- Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
- Butter unsalted - 1/4 cup, room temperature
- Milk - 3 tbsp
- Salt - a fat pinch
Note - If you are using salted butter, then skip the additional salt.
Instructions
- Sieve flour, coco powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Mix and set aside.
- Take another deep bowl and add butter, sugar and milk in it.
- Whip it with electric whisk for about 2-3 minutes on high, till it becomes creamy and light.
- Slowly add and mix the flour mixture to this butter mix and mix gently with a spoon or fork till all the ingredients are well combined into a dough.
- Transfer this dough in a plastic bag or container and refrigerate it for at least 1/2 an hour. At this point, you may leave it in the refrigerator for longer time, till you are ready to bake.
- Preheat the oven at 350*F or 180*C and Line a baking tray with parchment or butter paper.
- Take the cold dough out. Divide it into 24 equal balls.
- Take one ball and flatten it gently in your palm. Place on the baking sheet. Finish all the dough balls likewise. Place these flattened balls, 2 inches apart from each other. They spread out while baking.
- Bake for 10 minutes for soft cookies and 12 minutes for slightly crispier coolies. Do not bake more than that.
- Take the tray out of the oven and let the cookies sit there for 5 minutes and then transfer them carefully to the cooling rack.
- They tasted awesome when they were warm but very soft to touch. They firmed up more once they cooled down to the room temperature.
Storage
- They store well in an air tight container or jar once cooled at the room temperature.
Notes
Can’t Bake it now? PIN it for LATER!
In my Kitchen, you will always BAKE HAPPY & STAY HAPPY!
Sonal
Can I use ghee instead of butter?
I wouldn’t recommend. Ghee will change the flavor and aroma.
Please let me know how can I make the same recipe using a Kadhai. Thanks in advance.
Sorry can’t help with that. You can find some recipes for that on YouTube
Loved the super simple recipe. I tried putting some peanut butter and nutela as a stuffing.It turned out superb. Also tried variation adding chocolate chips instead of cocoa powder . That too turned out so well..Thank you for the recipe.
So glad to Hear that
yummy cookies , i tries at pan it came well.
Thanks Nancy
Hey! i want to make the these cookies to send to my friend. any changes in the recipe so that it doesn’t go bad after a week?
These are home made cookies and not the commercial kinds. I haven’t shipped them anywhere so can’t vouch for that. But if you cool them to the room temperature and pack properly and send with overnight courier… should work.
Hey, I tried this. It turned out to be really good. Gave this recipe to few of my friends too. Even they loved it.
Thanks Shivika
Made the cookies yesterday, turned out really well. Thanks for the super simple recipe
Thanks Krupali 🙂
Can I use wheat flour instead of all purpose flour. Replace jaggery in place of refined sugar?
Tried it today came out perfect
Thank you for the feedback Swathi
Made it. Loved it.
Thank you ☺️
Hi ! I was looking for cookie recipe and find it here. I am very new in baking. Can you please guide me ?
1. I use 16 ltr lifelong OTG where I have only 3 functions in the function knob, a. give temperature only in bottom, b. give temp only on top and c. give temp both from top and bottom (I use this mode while baking cake) . In case of cookie what mode I should turn on ?
2. I have measurement cup set where 1 cup = 200 gm,1/2 cup= 100 gm and 1/4 cup= 50 gm
so if I take 150 gm maida (means 1/2 cup + 1/4 cup) and 50 gm cocoa powder (1/4 cup), 50 (1/4 cup) gm butter and 100 gm (1/2 cup) sugar along with other ingredients as you mentioned, will the cookies be fine ?
Krishna- unfortunately I can’t help you with this. I live in USA and we use different kind of ovens. Also your measurements for a cup to grams are different from USA measurement standards. You may refer to this for USA cooking measuring standards. http://dish.allrecipes.com/cup-to-gram-conversions/
To bake cakes, turn on the bottom rods. To bake pizza turn on both upper and lower rods. To bake cookies turn on the bottom rod or else your cookies will get too brown. I have the same kind of oven as yours, Krishna.
I wish i could help you with your measurement cups but I don’t know what to say. Why are you converting cups to grams. Every ingredient’s volume’s weight is different. One cup of sugar and one cup of flour dont have the same weight. So try to find recipes which are written in the cups format
Thanks for the clarification.
Came out well…. thank you
I am so glad to know that
I made these cookies today. Turned out really well and yummy. My little one loved them. First the mix was so yummy, he was licking that. Then had no patience to refrigerate the mix. However, I tried to make him wait. Jaise taise cookies bani, and finally he had them warm. Thank you so much for this recipe!! ❤️❤️
Awww Shilpi. Thank you. You made my day. Give a big hug to the kiddo.
Any substitute of unsalted butter?? Can i use normal butter??
Yes you can. Skip the salt from the recipe then.
My cookies kept on burning from bottom Everytime I made them 🙁
No idea why. May be you can shut off the lower griller if your OTG.
Was out of eggs so tried this recipe. Turned out ok following directions cookies were crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside but only made 12 small/medium cookies not 24.
Melanie thanks for the feedback. I am surprised that your cookies were crispy from outside since they are supposed to be soft. But as far as you like it, good :).
Hi Sonal,
Thanks for the recipe.The cookie was delicious, but my cookies got burnt at the bottom and they were still half baked at the center.I followed the recipe as it is.Can you tell me what would have been wrong ?
I have no clue since it is a mist tried cookie recipe from blog…nobody has come with this complain.
My cookies gets hard at centre but soft at corner I baked my cookies at 140 degree
Please read the recipe and the temperature advised to bake at. Where did you get the number 140*C?
My cookies become hard but crunchy what to do so that they do not become hard
Please follow recipe as is and there is no way that your cookies will be hard
Hmmm, I wonder how you can smell the eggs in cookies? Not sure I would even know it, as the wonderful smell of the cookie would overpower it? No? Ha ha, all the same, I love how they turned out with the eggs. Chai and snacks – it’s been a while since I’ve indulged in that luxury. I don’t even drink tea in the afternoon, I feel like it messes up my dinner time. Still that (hot mix – that’s what our girls still call them) is always so good, and with those cookies!! Now we’re talking LOL!
That evening tea time when indulged with luxury can totally spoil dinner…
I don’t smell eggs all the time but sometimes it is very strong
Chocolate and butter?! Yes please!!
Thanks Lori
Delicious!! Thanks for the tips
Thank you
Amazing recipe, the cookies look so delicious!
Thank you di
Beautiful looking cookies and loved the recipe easy and simple .
Thanks Swati
You read my mind Sonal. Even I can’t stand the smell of eggs in cookies and cakes.Thanks for the wonderful recipe.Loved it.
Hugs Preethi