Eggless Chocolate Walnut Cookies

Baking Time!!!! I was so bored yesterday, the weather was so dull and lousy... I wanted to do something... but what?? I had no idea and suddenly  I realized that my hubby was wanting to eat Cookies from a long time. So I decided to bake some cookies by the time he comes back from his office...I looked for some egg-less recipes on the web but to my disappointment I could not find a simple recipe, everything was so complicated...then I decided that I should try baking cookies in my own style :) Here I come with my simple yet yummy Egg-less Chocolate Walnut Cookies recipe...

Yummy Chocolate Walnut Cookies

 Ingredients:

2 Cups Maida/All Purpose Flour   
1 Cup Chopped Walnuts
1/2 Cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1 and 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar
3/4 Cup Unsalted Butter
1/2 Tsp Baking Soda
1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
1 Tbsp Vanilla Essence
1 Tbsp Cardamom Essence (Optional)

Procedure:

1. Sieve Maida/All Purpose Flour, Powdered Sugar, Coco Powder, Baking Powder, Baking Soda and keep it aside.
2. Melt Butter and let it cook to the room temperature. Add Vanilla and Cardamom Essence and mix well.
3. Now add the Flour mixture to butter and mix gently till all the dry ingredients are completely mixed. The dough should be stiff enough to make balls.

Chocolate Dough

4. Add chopped walnuts to this mixture and mix the dough well. Keep it aside for 5 mins with a covered lid.

Chocolate Dough with Walnuts

5. Divide the dough into small portions and shape them into round balls and flatten them on your palm like tikkis. Or if you have a Cookie Cutter, use it to shape the cookies.
6. In a baking try place a butter paper or aluminum foil and place the shaped cookies with 1 &1/2 inches gap between the cookies. This is because the cookies will swell and spread during baking.
7. Place the baking tray into the oven and microwave them in pizza mode for 5 - 7 minutes. Keep an eye on the cookies so that they don't get over cooked. Once it's done. Remove them from oven and let it cool for 6 - 8 mins and then remove them carefully into a try.

Note: When hot, the cookies will be soft but once cooled the cookies will be crispy.

Yummy Chocolate Walnut Cookies

8. Yummy Egg-less Chocolate Walnut Cookies are ready to eat. Store them in a air tight container and they will stay fresh for a week.

Tip: 1.Using Cookie Cutter you can try different shapes like Heart Shape, Stars etc. I made a few heart shape cookies too...

Heart-Shaped Cookie

2. If you don't have Butter paper or Aluminum foil, directly place the cookies on the oven glass plate and microwave them.

3. If you do not have Cardamom Essence, you can add one more tablespoon of Vanilla Essence.
4. If you do not have pizza mode in your microwave oven, you can directly microwave the cookies for 1  - 2 mins and keep checking after every one minute or 30 seconds. This is a bit difficult process because you the cookies may tend to get over or under cooked. Check the various combinations in your microwave oven and try them.

Happy Cooking!!!
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