Egg-less Chocolate Chip Cookies: Take Two

Recipe: Yogurt Chocolate Chip Cookies
Source: All Recipes
Time: 40 minutes
Ease: 2
Taste: 9*
Leftover Value: 10*
Down the Drain or Keep in the Strainer:

*Hubby says they have a strange after taste.  I say that Hubby is the strange one.



Egg-less cookies are no stranger to the Orange Strainer.  You might recall my post last year about egg-less cookies I made for Hubby's boss:

Last year's egg-less chocolate chip cookies

For the same reason, a combined effort of needing to busy myself with baking and wanting to send a little treat to Hubby's boss/coworkers, I baked up another batch of egg-less cookies.  This recipe was a little different as it involved the use of yogurt.

Can I take a moment to say that this is my favorite use for yogurt, ever?  Substituting it for sour cream with nachos/tacos is probably my second favorite.  Eating it by itself is just gross.

I used Greek yogurt because that's the kind of yogurt I had in my refrigerator.  You can use whatever you want.  I've even used cherry yogurt to give my cookies a cherry flavor.  Yum!

But enough with the healthier ingredients.

Thank heavens there is some of this goodness involved:

I don't think I could live with myself if I found butter-less cookies.

Cream brown sugar, white sugar, butter, and shortening together.

One of my favorite sights:

Add the yogurt:

and the vanilla:

Stir to combine.

Combine flour, baking soda, and salt:

and mix into the creamy mixture until smooth.

Dump in the chocolate chips,

and exercise all the restraint within you to abandon the idea of making cookies and take the mixing bowl and a spoon to the couch and watch reruns of Real Housewives of New Jersey*

*Note: I never** watch Real Housewives of New Jersey, it just seemed the proper show to insert there.

**Note: Seriously, never.

The recipe says to grease some cookie sheets, but I discovered the miracle that is parchment paper last year and since then it's been no turning back.

At $5 a roll, it's money well spent.

1. My pans are always clean.

2. My cookies never need to be scraped off the pan.

That, my friends, is a win win situation.

It has been my attempt in life to find chocolate chip cookie recipes where my cookies do not come out flat as a pancake.

I think we have success:

They are perfect!  No pancakes here.

Although, pancakes are starting to sound good right about now...

You would never know that there aren't any eggs in them.  That is, of course, aside from the imagined after taste that Hubby says they have.

My favorite part of baking for others is coming up with a cute way to package my yummies.

Cookies make everything better.

Even a long day at the office.

Egg-less Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipe: Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies
Source: http://www.food.com/recipe/eggless-chocolate-chip-cookies-58919?scaleto=6&mode=null&st=true
Time: 55 minutes total
Ease: 1
Taste: 5
Leftover Value:10
Down the Drain or Keep it in the Strainer: Depends*

*If you're looking for traditional chocolate chip cookies, they fail.  However, if you are a fan of shortbread or butter cookies, these are awesome.

I don't ordinarily search specifically for recipes that take out common baking ingredients such as eggs.  However, I occasionally like to butter up (pun intended) my hubby's boss, and because of her religion she cannot eat anything that has eggs in it.  So, anytime I find a promising recipe that doesn't have eggs in it, I put it in the back of my mind to make one day for her.

It had been some time since I sent in some boss goodies and I thought it needed to happen before I go back to work and lose the desire to cook for even myself.  I searched high and low for what I thought might be the best egg-less treat.

I first thought apple pie, but then I decided I would wait until fall for that.  (By the way, can I tell you how excited I am for the fall?)

Enter in egg-less chocolate chip cookies.

The number one thing that I liked about this recipe was that there were six ingredients (seven for you if you choose to add pecans).  The second thing I liked about making this recipe was that I had already taken some butter out to soften, so when I had committed to making these, the butter was perfectly ready.

The recipe calls to make these cookies big.  And I suppose you could ignore the recipe and make them smaller, but they really come out beautifully in the size the recipe calls for.

I doubled the recipe which is why you see 12 cookies and not 6.  Just thought I should clear that up.

The 45 minute cooking time seemed a bit much, but it was definitely necessary.

If you're a soft cookie lover, these aren't for you.  They are crunchy, but the chocolate chips add a little softness to the crunch.  They would go perfectly with a cappuccino or hot cup o' Joe.

This was the first time I ever made perfectly circular non-flat chocolate chip cookies.  Usually my chocolate chip cookies deflate within moments out of the oven.

I felt a little happy inside about this.

Not only do I bake for the boss, but I make sure it gets to work with excellent presentation.

When you make these, promise me you'll pack them up for all your friends and neighbors just like this.

As long as you don't eat them all first.  With only 6 per batch, it is a little hard to share them.