Can I Make The Chocolate Chip Cookies Without Eggs?

Our answer

Nigella's Chocolate Chip Cookies (from KITCHEN) are a delicious combinational of crisp outer edges and slightly chewy centres. The texture comes from a particular combination of sugar, fat, egg and flour.

Eggs are added to cookie dough to give the cookies moisture, some leavening and also the egg yolks help to give the cookies their slightly fudgy centres. Unfortunately, removing the eggs would give flatter, drier cookies and we can't reccomend any egg replacemant products. However, Nigella does have a recipe for Mine-All-Mine Sweet And Salty Chocolate Chip Cookies, which does not contain eggs. When warm, these cookies have a slightly crisp edge and gooey centres and when cold have a more shortbread-like texture. The recipe makes two cookies, but it is easy to scale up to make a larger number. Another egg-free cookie recipe is the one for Christmas Chocolate Cookies, which are good at any time of year. These have a less chewy and more tender texture but are fatter than the Sweet And Salty Chocolate Chip Cookies. They don't contain chocolate chips, though it may be possible to add some chocolate chips when you beat in the flour and leavening - but only if you make the cookies with a mixer as a food processor would simply pulverise the chocolate chips.