I’ve had an intense craving for cookies the last couple days.  So today, since I have all this extra time from not shopping, I decided cookies had to be made!  I did a quick glance in my cupboards for ingredients and realized I didn’t have eggs.  Dang, a pretty basic ingredient for cookies.

Normally I’d just say never mind.  But no!  I was determined and thought surely there is a “no-egg cookie” recipe out there. I searched Pinterest and Google and finally found one that sounded decent on Yahoo!  A No Egg Peanut Butter Cookie recipe.  I thought this would be so fun to do with Stevie too!  He could sit up on the counter top and help me mix stuff and we could lick the spoons and have a grand ol’ time.  He lasted about 3 minutes.  But at least he was a good boy while I quickly threw these together.

Here’s the recipe:

1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1/3 cup applesauce or 1/2 a ripe banana
1 cup flour

Directions:

Mix peanut butter, applesauce, and sugar together in bowl. {I don’t do bananas, like ever.  So I guess applesauce is the secret ingredient.  I learned that one of these little snack packs is almost exactly 1/3 cup. Just FYI.}

Fold in flour.  {When I did this, the dough got really flaky.  I don’t know if that’s normal or if I just don’t know how to fold flour.  But I tasted the dough before the flour was added, and it needed it for sure.  Doing my homework for you guys.}

Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Scoop by spoonfuls onto baking sheets.

Sprinkle a little sugar on top and use a fork to make crisscross pattern on each cookie.

Bake in oven for 15 minutes.  {Mine were a little crispy on the bottom and a little gooey inside.  I would’ve liked the inside to be baked just a tiny bit more, but a little gooey is good.}

Remove from oven and stuff your mouth hole.  Quickly.  Once they sit for awhile, they just aren’t very good. Not the best cookies I’ve ever had, but desperate times, you know.  Plus, if you don’t care too much about getting fat, you can eat all the dough you want, since there are no eggs or raw ingredients.  Fun!

Stevie doesn’t get any.  Just kidding, he totally got one.  Or two.  Since there was a resounding “UM!” with each bite.

Do you guys know of any other cookie recipes with no eggs?