Sugar Cookies Without Eggs

Cookies are a favorite snack time meal that children readily eat with a glass of milk. There are many cookies and sugar cookies are one the top favorites in the cookie Top 10 chart. But there are many people who are vegetarians or vegans that have some aversion to eating cookies with eggs. Also, many people have egg allergies and cannot enjoy the delicious sugar cookies. If you are one of the above or would like to treat someone with sugar cookies and are wondering, how to make sugar cookies without eggs, well, your hunt for recipe for eggless sugar cookies or should I say treasure hunt ends here.

Recipes for Eggless Sugar Cookies

The following easy recipe for sugar cookies do not require eggs and still maintain their normal sugar cookie flavor. The following sugar cookie recipes without eggs will solve your query on how to make sugar cookies without eggs.

Recipe # 1
Ingredients

• 1 cup shortening or butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1½ tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method of Preparation
Preheat the oven to 425 ºF. Add sugar and solid shortening or butter into a mixing bowl. Beat the ingredients together with an electric mixer, till it reaches a smooth and creamy texture. Pour milk into a measuring cup and add lemon juice. The milk is now called "soured milk" and a common substitute for buttermilk.

Add the soured milk and flour to the sugar and shortening mixture and mix well. Add one teaspoon of salt, baking powder, baking soda and vanilla to the sugar cookie dough mixture. Mix the dough well, till all the ingredients are mixed thoroughly. Roll the dough into balls with your hands and place them on a cookie sheet. Sprinkle additional sugar on top of each cookie if you want. Bake cookies for eight minutes or till the edges just begin to turn golden brown. Use a spatula to remove the cookies from the cookie sheet and cool on a cookie rack. Your cookies are ready to be eaten after cooling.

Recipe # 2
Ingredients

• 2/3 cup shortening
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon soy flour
• 1 tablespoon water
• 4 teaspoon whole milk
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Method of Preparation
Add shortening, sugar and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl. Blend the ingredients well, using a hand blender. Add soy flour and water to the shortening mixture and beat till thoroughly blended. With a spoon, stir in the whole milk. Set aside.

In another bowl, swift together all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt. Add the sifted flour mixture to the creamed shortening mixture and thoroughly blend till mixed. Divide the dough in half, cover and chill for 1 hour.

On a lightly floured surface, place half of the chilled dough and roll into 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Repeat the same process with the other half of the chilled cookie dough.

Place the cut cookies ½ inch apart on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 ºF for 6 to 8 minutes. Use a spatula to remove the cookies from the cookie sheet and cool on a cookie rack. Your cookies are ready to be eaten after cooling.

These are some of the ways you can bake sugar cookies without eggs. You can treat your loved ones who don't eat egg products with your sugar cookies that are made without using eggs. The satisfaction and pleasure on the face of the ones deprived of eating sugar cookies will give you immense satisfaction to yourself. So what are you waiting for? Try these recipes and treat your loved ones and yourself with these eggless cookies.