Best Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe in 20 Minutes

Eggless chocolate chip cookies are something that shouldn’t miss from your kitchen because they are an absolute treat. 

The crispy layer outside and the chewy and soft texture inside will simply blow your mind. And since these no egg cookies are so easy to prepare, you will want to make them very often.

Every week maybe.

There are plenty of ways you can enjoy the eggless cookies: as a snack, with your morning coffee, as a dessert accompanied by a scoop of ice cream. Or you may even pack them and tie with a ribbon and offer as a gift to a friend.

Short History of Chocolate Chip Cookies

Treats resembling vanilla cookies date back from 7th century A.D., from Persia. Persia was one of the first countries where sugar was cultivated. 

The Persian Empires was well known for its luxurious cakes and pastries. This type of sweet treats was preferred by many people, especially travelers. They were considered portable food and had an extended storage life.

These qualities made them a perfect “to go” food and you could find them on the board of any ship that left the harbors. The biscuits lasted for months and even years if stored under the right conditions.

You should know that not everyone could be a baker during the 17th and 18th century in Europe. This profession was carefully controlled and managed through several professional associations and guilds. The road to becoming a master baker was long and difficult.

This job required years of apprenticeship and the one who wanted to be a baker had to be apprentice at first, journeyman, and only at the end of these years he could be a master baker with the right to prepare baked goodies.

The good thing about the guilds is that the authorities were able to regulate the quality and quantity of baked products.

After the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the technology improved. The result was that the variety of sweet and savory biscuits increased and people could enjoy more types of butter cookies, for example. 

However, the ingredients remained pretty much the same: wheat flour, sugar and fats such as oil or butter.

The cookies were brought to America by the Scotch, English and Dutch immigrants.

The simple American vanilla cookies look a lot like Scotch shortbread or English teacakes. The housewives from Southern America were very proud of their cookies and called them tea cakes. They were made with very fine butter.

The taste was delicious and didn’t need any additional flavor. The cooks only add a few drops of rose water from time to time.

In the first American cookbooks, cookies didn’t get a place of their own. They were only mentioned at the end of each cake chapter by various names, such as Plunkets, Jumbles or Cry Babies which had nothing to do with those simple treats.

Ruth Graves Wakefield invented the first chocolate chip cookie in 1937. She ran the Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. She used a recipe for “Butter Drop Do” cookies. 

This was an old recipe which dated back to colonial times and was asking for baker’s chocolate. Since one day Ruth was lacking this ingredient, she chopped a chocolate bar and folded the chunks into the cookie dough. She thought that the chocolate would melt and combine with the dough.

But to her surprise, the bites kept their shape. Those cookies became a sensation soon. Ruth gave them a name: Toll House Crunch Cookies. 

The guests of inn were delighted by the sweet treats and the cookies soon became very popular. Therefore, the recipe was published in a newspaper from Boston, but also other newspapers from England put it out.

Nowadays, we may find hundreds of vanilla cookies recipes all over the United States. Each memorable event can be noticed in some cookie recipe. The cultivation of the oranges in the West brought them in certain recipes. The appearance of corn flakes led to cereal cookies. Coconuts brought from the South made their way into other recipes.

How to Make Cookies without Eggs?

Eggs can be an important ingredient in a cookie recipe. 

But there are many people who want to reduce the egg consumption due to some health issues. Or other people who are intolerant or allergic to egg whites or egg yolks or both. 

This does not mean that they can’t still enjoy these little goodies. On the contrary. The following recipe will help you bake the best egg free cookies. If you enjoy it, we suggest making other eggless recipes such as eggless banana bread!

Since the eggs have the role of binding ingredients and keeping them all together, you might argue that the dough will be crumbly and not chewy as a perfect cookie should be.

And you are right! 

I had to cook them several times and play a bit with the quantities in order to get what I wanted. But the effort was so worth it.

These are the ingredients you will need for eggless chocolate chip cookies:

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