Here's another easy-to-bake eggless cookie recipe for baking beginners - Melting Moments! Melting moments are classic cookies or biscuits that use cornflour along with normal flour for a melt-in-your-mouth texture. I added a twist to them by making it chocolate flavoured.
I am sorry for not including the cup measurements. I was adding and subtracting ingredients on a hunch so my cup measurements all went out the window. You can use the culiverter tool on the bottom of the right sidebar to get measurements in cups in case you don't own a kitchen balance. Please don't let that deter the aspiring baker in you.
I don't have step by step pictures for this but its really not as complicated as a cake or a brownie. I do have a picture of the dough, which is not very pretty but I felt you'd like to see it.
Its really simple with no complicated ingredients or steps. Not even an egg! So all you vegetarians out there, you can go for it too! Probably a good cookie to bake for easter too.
Eggless Chocolate Melting Moments Recipe
(makes 12)
Ingredients:
125gm butter, at room temperature
60gm icing sugar + more for dusting
100gm plain flour / maida
25gm cornflour
20gm cocoa powder
How to Make Chocolate Melting Moments
1. Beat butter and sugar using a hand beater or an electric beater on low until smooth, creamy and combined.
2. Sift the plain flour, cornflour and cocoa together into a bowl (if you don't have a sieve, just make sure you mix them well until combined).
3. Add the flour mixture little at a time to the butter mixture and mix until its all combined.
4. Make small balls with the dough and press gently. Space them a good 2 inches apart on a tray. The cookies spread while baking. I didn't need to use a baking sheet, the cookies were quite well-behaved and didn't stick to the tray at all.
5. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 C. It took about 30 mins to bake. Let it cool completely before removing from the tray and dusting with some icing sugar. Its hard to tell when its done because of the colour but I would recommend that you check after about 20 mins, probably by taking out just one cookie, letting it cool a bit and tasting it.
- You can store these for about 4 days in an air tight container.
- Its great to pack and send people, or to take to someone's house when you are visiting, which is what I did.
- If you want a more rounded shape for your melting moments, shape into balls and don't flatten. The cookies flatten as they bake so the rounder you start off, the more rounded the end result. I wanted flat ones, so I flattened the dough a bit.
This pic was taken 4 days after I made them. Still pretty and tasty, I can tell you 😉
Nandini Vishwanath
Ayyo sorry about the watermark thingy! 😀
And and and THANKS A TON! Eggless means bestm, coz we are on an eggless month now! Yayyy!
And making this on tonite or tomorrow. You rock. And tell me something, how did you have so many leftover after 4 days!!
RedChillies
Adding cornflour is totally new to me. The cookies in the second pictures look so pretty.
Nags
Chaitra, I am not sure how baking in microwave works, I haven't done it myself. But you can surely try skipping the pre-heating, although its recommended for the recipe. My mom never used to preheat the oven and still used to make awesome everything 🙂
chaitra
WOW!! they are absolutely mouth watering.
But I can't do any 'pre-heating'in my microwave oven. Can I bake them by just setting the timer?
If so, please let me know how?
Mriganayani
Really not fair to post this - now I definitely need something sweet before I go to bed..can't stop drooling at these...
praveena
hi there excellent recipe! i just tried it out a few days ago and it was great, except that i personally think i could have done with much less butter and much more sugar.. 🙂 oh and it makes way more than just 12. or maybe my cookies were smaller than yours. well thanks for sharing the recipe , very simple and easy to make 🙂
Nags
Praveena - If you can lessen the amount of butter, that's awesome! Do try that way and let me know if you do 🙂 Also, my cookies were on the bigger side, not biscuit-sized. Probably thats why?
Anonymous
i hope you just put them on a tray to bake them because it don't say.Thanks for the recipe
Bharti
These look dunkable in milk!
Sakshi
Mrs. Mogambo khush hua...egg less that means I can share the cookies with my egg allergic husband without forcing him to have a stomach ache..and chocolate melting in my mouth is heaven for me...this is a sure hit recipe for me nags...now only one hurdle left...me actually getting up and making it...sigh!!!