Perfectly crispy, slightly chewy eggless chocolate chip cookies have a great nutty flavor from whole wheat flour and brown sugar. Not only are these delicious cookies a healthier treat, they are easy to make in just one bowl. Give them a try with my step by step photos and instructions, and I’m sure this will become your go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe!
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Why This Recipe Works
These cookies are not the usual chocolate chip cookies. These are made with whole wheat flour which gives them a lovely nutty flavor. They are crisp, buttery and crunchy as well.
I have used stone-ground whole wheat flour. For health reasons, I use whole wheat flour in cookies and muffins. Of course, you could make these cookies with all-purpose flour.
These chocolate chip cookies make for a nice sweet breakfast or evening snack. They can also be served in the tiffin box as a sweet side snack for kids.
This recipe is an easy one. Right from prepping and making the cookie dough it takes about 20 minutes, excluding the shaping, refrigeration and baking time.
These eggless cookies can be served plain or topped on an ice cream, custard or pudding.
How to Make Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies
Making cookie dough
This easy recipe only needs one bowl, and warm cookies are ready to enjoy in less than an hour. Firstly, grease a baking tray or line it with parchment paper.
1. In a mixing bowl take the following listed ingredients
- 100 grams softened unsalted butter
- ¼ cup tightly packed brown sugar (50 grams)
- ¼ cup raw sugar (50 grams)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup milk.
2. Using a wired whisk or an electric beater begin to mix and whip the ingredients.
3. Whip till the butter becomes nicely soft and fluffy.
4. Place a sieve on top of the bowl. Add 1.25 cups whole wheat flour (150 grams), 1 teaspoon baking powder and ⅛ teaspoon salt in the sieve.
Make sure that the bottom of the sieve does not touch the whipped butter. You can also sift the flour separately and then add into the whipped butter.
5. With a spatula, gently begin to fold the sifted flour into the whipped butter. Fold well. The cookie dough will be sticky.
Do not knead. You just to fold and bring the whole mixture together.
6. Add ½ cup chocolate chips.
7. Gently fold the chocolate chips into the cookie dough. Cover and refrigerate dough for 15 to 20 minutes.
8. After 15 to 20 minutes of refrigeration, you can either take a portion of dough and lightly roll or flatten on tray – or use a cookie press or a scoop a tablespoon from the dough.
If rolling in your palms, then roll gently with light pressure from your hands. You can flatten the cookies if you want but even without flattening the cookie will spread while baking.
Keep some space around the cookies as they flatten while baking.
9. Meanwhile, preheat the oven at 190 degrees Celsius (374 degrees Fahrenheit) for 20 minutes. For an OTG, keep both the top and bottom heating elements on. Place the cookie tray in the center rack.
10. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or till edges turn golden or brown. Do not bake for too long as then cookies will harden up.
11. Using a spatula, remove the cookies from the tray and place them on a wired rack. Let the cookies cool completely before storing or serving.
12. Below photo shows the lovely golden crumb of the bottom of the cookies.
13. Serve eggless chocolate chip cookies with milk for kids, coffee for adults or just as a delicious sweet snack.
Tips + FAQs
Yes, you can substitute all purpose for whole wheat flour. Just add 1 to 2 tablespoons of milk for the best consistency.
I used semi-sweet chocolate chips for this recipe. But you can use your favorite chocolate chips, including dark chocolate, white chocolate, or peanut butter chips.
This recipe will make 15 to 20 small to medium sized cookies.
You can scale this recipe to double or triple the servings.
Yes, but I would then omit the additional salt from the recipe.
Keep eggless chocolate chip cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week.
You can make this dough and keep in the fridge for 2 to 3 days in a covered container, or freeze for up to 3 months. If freezing, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and then store in a freezer bag. Allow the cookie dough to thaw overnight in the fridge before baking.
If using granulated sugar, then powder it and use. In India, generally granulated white sugar has large crystals and they won’t dissolve when whipping butter. You can add castor sugar and finely granulated sugar though.
The temperatures in each oven vary with its size and type. So if the cookies are not getting golden, this means your oven is slow in heating. Bake for some more minutes than the time specified in the recipe.
In a microwave oven bake the cookies using the convection mode. The temperature for both preheating and baking can be 180 degrees Celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit).
You could replace both brown sugar and raw sugar with coconut sugar, palm sugar, molasses or jaggery in the same quantity.
Use Bob’s Red Mill all-purpose gluten free flour in the recipe.
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Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
- 100 grams unsalted butter – softened
- ¼ cup tightly packed brown sugar – 50 grams
- ¼ cup raw sugar – 50 grams, can use castor sugar or finely granulated white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
- ¼ cup whole milk
Dry Ingredients
- 1.25 cups whole wheat flour – 150 grams
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips – 80 grams, can add milk, bittersweet, dark or white chocolate chips
Instructions
Making cookie dough
- In a mixing bowl take unsalted butter, brown sugar, raw sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Grease a baking tray or line it with a parchment paper.
- Using a wired whisk or an electric beater begin to mix and whip the ingredients.
- Whip till the butter becomes nicely soft and fluffy.
- Place a sieve on top of the bowl. Add whole wheat flour, baking powder and teaspoon salt into the sieve. Make sure that the bottom of the sieve does not touch the whipped butter. You can also sift the flour separately.
- With a spatula, gently begin to fold the sifted flour into the whipped butter.
- Fold well. The cookie dough will be sticky.
- Add chocolate chips.
- Gently fold the chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
- Cover and refrigerate dough for 15 to 20 minutes.
Shaping
- Take a portion of dough and lightly roll or flatten on tray or use a cookie press or a scoop a tablespoon from the dough.
- If rolling in your palms, then roll gently with light pressure from your hands. You can flatten the cookies if you want but even without flattening the cookie will spread while baking.
- Keep some space around the cookies as they flatten while baking.
Baking
- Preheat oven at 190 degrees celsius (374 degrees Fahrenheit) for 20 minutes. For an OTG, keep both the heating elements on. Place the cookie tray in the center of the oven.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or till edges turn golden or brown. Do not bake for long as the cookies will harden.
- Using a spatula, remove the cookies from the tray and place them on a wired rack. Let the cookies cool completely before storing or serving.
- Serve eggless chocolate chip cookies as a sweet snack.
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Notes
- Flour: For a more lighter version of these cookies, replace the whole wheat flour with an equal quantity of all-purpose flour. Just add 1 to 2 tablespoons of milk for the best consistency.
- Chocolate chips: I have used semi-sweet chocolate chips. You can add bittersweet, milk, dark or white chocolate chips and even peanut butter chips.
- Salted butter: You can add salted butter, but omit the additional salt from the recipe.
- Sugar: If using granulated sugar, then use the one with finer crystals. Do not directly add granulated sugar with large crystals but powder it and use.
- Servings & scaling: This recipe will make about 18 to 20 medium sized cookies. Depending upon the size of the cookie, the numbers will vary. If you make large cookies, you will get about 10 to 12 cookies. You can scale this recipe to double or triple the servings.
- Storing: Keep eggless chocolate chip cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week.
- Make ahead: You can make this dough and keep in the fridge for 2 to 3 days in a covered container, or freeze for up to 3 months. If freezing, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and then store in a freezer bag. Allow the cookie dough to thaw overnight in the fridge before baking.
Nutrition Info (Approximate values)
This recipe post from the archives (Oct 2014) has been republished and updated on 8 November 2020.
Hi , i tried this today. It came out good.but the outer one is not brown n its light wheat color. Can u plz let me know y?
if the color is pale, then more baking time is required. if using an OTG, then make sure to use the toast mode (both top and heating elements are on).
Can we use all purpose flour or maida instead of wheat flour
yes you can use all purpose flour (maida). just add less milk while binding as maida require less liquids for binding.
Idk maybe my microwave is different but it’s manual suggests time for convection mode to be set at 50 minutes. And i don’t think you specified the time for microwave so should it be the same as the time for oven? (15-25minutes)
Also I can’t really tell if the cookies are cooked or not. I baked them for like 12-13minutes but they haven’t turned golden but have become a bit hard. Please help.
for convection mode of microwave oven, preheating time is 15 minutes. its same as that for a regular oven. the time of baking will differ though as each oven has a different temperature. but generally in a microwave oven the baking is faster due to the fan in it.
you can press the cookies with a spoon or your fingertips. it there is no impression on them, then it means the cookies are baked. be careful when pressing with fingers as the cookies are hot. if the cookies are baked too much, they will turn hard.