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 ๐
Kavya K
Loved d pics! ๐ But cud u pls tell how to bake in microwave oven? I dont hav a convention oven ๐
My Foot?
Thank you for the recipe Nags ^_^
They turned out much better than I had expected being my first time baking and all, although my presentation took a royal beating. I had added raisins and almonds in a few. The ones with almonds dried out but the ones with raisins turned out great.
These are gonna end up being a regular at my place. I am planning to cut down on the butter a li'l.
Thanks again …
Nags
oooh adding raisins sounds like a fantastic idea! thanks for trying out the eggless chocolate melting moments recipe ๐
Gita
can i replace butter with ghee or refined vegetable oil?? lovely recipe!! would love to try!!
Nags
oooh try with ghee. i am very curious to see how that would turn out. the flavour would be very different for sure. let me know ๐
Anjum
Oh Thank so So much Nags!!!!!!!! Really greatful to u.. Will try it as soon as possible and will let u know hw it came ๐
Anjum
Hi Nags, good work. Am very new to baking, so can u tell me how long we should pre heat the oven and whats the temp we should keep for pre heat.
Nags
Hello Anjum, as I have mentioned in the recipe, pre-heat the oven until its 180C.
How to preheat? Turn the oven on empty at 180C. Most ovens have a light indicator that turns green (or something simiar) when the temperature is reached. Turn the oven on midway between preparing the dough, that should be enough.
veena krishnakumar
Hi Nags
tried out this recipe today. TRuly delicious. I have blogged about it and linked it back to your post. thanks for sharing
Tarini
Hey hiii.. Thanks for the easy to make recipe.. This reminds me of the movie Julie and Julia ๐