For this month’s Baking Partners Challenge Swathi gave three cookie recipes chosen by the members of the group. We are free to try out any recipe within the three. Tina of http://www.pinaycookingcorner.com selected Ultimate Chocolate and Cream Cheese Cookies from Food & Wine Best of the Best Cookbook Recipes Vol. 14. The cookie recipe had eggs in it. So I had to do some substitutions to make it an eggless recipe. I added curd and baking powder instead of eggs and baked some cookies. The dough was very thin and the cookies turned out very flat. So I added extra flour and baked it again. The result was great. The cookies were chewy and very delicious. I also didn’t have the chocolate chips mentioned in the recipe. So I substituted it with white chocolate chips, almond flakes and golden raisins. These cookies stayed good for five days when stored in an airtight jar.
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Makes 85 Cookies:
- In a bowl add flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda and mix together.
- In a large bowl, cream butter. Add sugar, brown sugar and cream cheese and beat until fluffy.
- Mix curd and baking powder and add it to the butter mixture.
- Add vanilla and mix well.
- In a double boiler melt the chocolate and add it to the butter sugar mixture. Mix well.
- Add the chocolate chips, almonds and raisins. Add the flour cocoa mixture and mix it with a wooden spoon until you get a sticky dough.
- Cover with a wrap and refrigerate for minimum 2 hours. I refrigerated the dough overnight.
- Remove the dough from oven 15minutes before baking and let it sit on counter.
- Preheat oven to 180`C.
- Line a baking tray with butter paper.
- Pinch small portions of the dough, roll it into a ball and place it on the tray.
- Place the balls 2” apart because this cookie spreads.
- Bake for 12-15minutes.
- Cool on wire rack and store in airtight jar.
- Enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea.
Wow! No eggs but they still look so good! Nicely done Gayathri!
Wonderfully baked ultimate chocolate cookies, eggless version. A really hard job done by you dear.
Looks so yum ..nice recipe
Irresisible, eggless version as perfect and addictive as i baked with eggs,well done Gayathri.
Wow! they look so lovely! Nice presentation and good clicks!
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You should be called ‘ Egg-less Baking queen’. 🙂
I must admit this: My vision for baking has changed after seeing your recipes and work. I always used to think that baking is no fun without eggs but you have changed this thought now. 🙂
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Love this egg less version,looks irresistible…beautifully baked.
Perfect looking eggless version…They look very yummy..
You done very well Gayathri, these cookies looks perfect and delicious.
oh my! looks gorgeous!
Yummy cookies. Love that they are eggless..
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Hi Gayathri,
Love to be in the baking partners team lovely click.I didn’t try out this recipe but looking at ur pics I am going to bake it today.Looks lovely.
Well done Gayathri, Delectable cookies..
delicious cookies and easy step by step… love it
Priya
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Thanks for the step by step pics 🙂
Gayatri how do you make cream cheese at home?
Hello gayatri..
Your efforts in eggless baking…its just superb…
I am Gopa…
I am a homemaker….and very much passionate in eggless bakings…
I was reading chocolate cream cheese cookie recipe….
Please help me to understand the quantities of baking powder and baking soda…as in the ingredient list…there is no baking powder mentioned…
If i add 2tsp of baking powder with the flour…wil it work fine…
If i mix half tsp of baking soda…with the curd and then mix with the butter sugar…mixture…will it be fine
Please guide me…in this..
I am sorry for the typo. The one I have given below curd is baking powder. That is 1/2 tsp. Add the 2 tsp baking soda along with flour. Add baking powder to curd.
hi.. i love your recipes great work! i wanted to know will my cookies turn out softer if i reduce the quantity of chocolate chips. thanks
These cookies are softer and have a texture like cakes. The choco chips give a crunch in between the softness.