Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies

Eggless cookie recipes are wonderful creations because they are rarely messy or difficult, but most eggless cookie recipes usually add bananas or peanut butter as an egg substitute that gives the cookie extra flavours, so here is a recipe for the good old chocolate chip cookie that always pleases.

If you are making cookies for vegan friends, remember to replace the butter with margarine.

Ingredients:

(makes a dozen cookies)

10 tbsp all purpose flour
¼ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
4 tbsp unsalted butter
5 tbsp caster sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate chips

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celcius.

2. In a bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and salt.

3. Lightly beat the butter with the sugar until homogenous.

4. Add the flour to the butter and mix. The dough should be loose and crumbly.

5. Stir in the vanilla extract and about 3/4 of the chocolate chips.

6. On a baking sheet, shape the cookies into discs about 1 inch in diameter, allow about 1.5 inches of space between cookies.

7. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until the cookies are golden brown on the edges. Different ovens may take different amounts of time to bake the cookies, so check on the progress periodically.

8. Allow the cookies to cool.

1. Pour the remaining chocolate chips (there should be about 1 tablespoonful of them left) into a plastic bag.

2. Immerse the plastic bag in a cup of boiling hot water, ensuring that none of the water enters the bag.

3. Once all the chocolate has melted, twist the plastic bag so that all the chocolate is in one corner, forming a makeshift icing bag.

4. Snip off the very tip of the icing bag so that there is a very small hole in the corner.

5. Gently apply pressure so that the chocolate comes out in a thin drizzle.

6. Apply the chocolate drizzle back and forth over the cookies until you have a satisfying lattice.

7. Serve immediately or store in an airtight jar for a gift.