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Eggless Chocolate Shortbread

Madhuram — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:02:58 +0000

This recipe for eggless chocolate shortbread cookies is from a Martha Stewart book. I think it’s called “Cookies”. I noted it long time back so don’t remember it. These are basic beginner’s level cookies. These shortbread have a crumbly texture with a buttery smell and taste. I wanted to bake a big batch of cookies and a simple recipe. So this shortbread recipe fits the bill. The yield mentioned in the recipe was 3 dozen but I got 5 dozen cookies.

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour 2 cups

Unsweetened Cocoa Powder 1/4 cup plus little for dusting

Salt 1/4 teaspoon

Unsalted Butter, at room temperature 1 cup/2 sticks

Sugar 3/4 cup

Vanilla Extract (optional) 1 teaspoon

Yield: 60 cookies

Procedure 1 In a medium bowl sift together flour, cocoa and salt.

2 In a large bowl add the butter and beat on medium speed for 5 minutes until fluffy.

3 Add sugar and beat about 2 minutes, until very light in color and fluffy, occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula. Add vanilla if using.

4 Add the flour mixture and combine on low speed, until flour is just incorporated and dough sticks together when squeezed with fingers.

5 Form dough into a flattened disk; wrap in plastic. Chill until firm, at least 1 hour.

6 Preheat oven to 325F for 15 minutes. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. I greased it lightly with the butter wrapper itself.

7 Use a spoon to form the dough into balls and place on the prepared baking sheet. I chilled it for 2 hours and the dough became so hard I was not able to scoop the dough. I had to pinch the dough and roll it in between my palms.

8 Bake until firm, 20 to 25 minutes, rotating halfway through (that is, moving the baking sheet in the top row to the bottom row and the vice versa) My cookies were ready around 23 minutes.

9 Cool completely on a wire rack. Dust with cocoa powder just before serving. (I didn’t do this)

My Notes These shortbread cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 1 week.

List of Eggless Baking Recipes – New Updates

Madhuram — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:09:28 +0000

I have added a number of recipes to the existing list of Eggless Cakes, Eggless Cookies and Eggless Muffins. This time I have also added another page for Eggless Bread Recipes. Please note that all these eggless recipes are from other blogs, so we know for sure that these have been tested in a real kitchen.

In the mean while I’m trying out many eggless recipes and will be posting them in my blog regularly. So keep checking or subscribe to my RSS Feed/Email Alerts to stay updated.

Also I have a request to my fellow food blogging friends. All these days I have been visitng other food blogs and picking out eggless baking recipes, copying the permalinks and compiling them into a list. It’s a lot of WORK. I very well know that I would have missed a lot of recipes too. So I have created a special Submit Form. Use this to submit your eggless creations which I have missed and also your new recipes as and when you post it in your blog. I will update the existing list every couple of months with the new recipes. This would be a great help for me and also for others who are looking for eggless baking recipes.

Have a great day!

List of Eggless Cookie Recipes

Madhuram — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:03:03 +0000

In my quest for finding eggless baking recipes, I came across some excellent eggless cookie recipes. You can browse the list here. Since all these recipes are from other food blogs, we know for sure that they have been tried and tested. Last week I bought a few books on baking for insipiration to come up with more eggless recipes. I’ll be posting it here regularly as and when I try. So keep checking!

Also I have some updates for the beet greens daal post. Check it out for a few interesting tips which I forgot to mention earlier.

Eggless Cumin Cookies

Madhuram — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:00:20 +0000

Since I’m also new to baking, I want to try very simple recipes only. This is one such cookie recipe. So if I can do it, anybody can do it. I’m stressing this point because I know how I used to think that “baking” and “difficult” were synonyms. So don’t hesitate to bake, just start with this recipe. You need not prepare a big shopping list to get the ingredients. Your pantry is not complete without these basic items. There is no creaming of butter and sugar, you don’t need any electric mixer. It’s as easy as kneading dough for rotis. Click here for the recipe.

My Notes:

1. I scaled down the entire recipe to half the original quantity. So I took 1 cup of all purpose flour, 1 tbspn cumin etc.
2. I added 1/4 tspn pepper powder. That’s the only addition I made, otherwise I just followed the recipe.
3. Once you form a ball of dough and roll it, it looks kind of flaky.
4. The recipe calls for baking at 180 C, so if you are in US you may want to bake it at 350 F for about 25 min.
5. I got around 20 cookies. It was a bit spicy for my family, so I would just reduce the amount of pepper and not totally omit it. It was a nice crunchy tea time snack. Each cookie had 2 layers. I have not captured this properly in my picture, but if you watch carefully Sunita’s picture of the cookies you can get an idea.

Stage 1:

In a mixing bowl combine all the dry ingredients and oil except milk.

Stage 2:

Add the milk and knead the mixture.

Stage 3:

Roll the dough, cut into desired shape and place it on a prepared baking tray.

Stage 4:

Bake it in a pre-heated oven at 350F for 20-25 minutes.