6 great cookies to make without eggs (Denver Post) {actually mostly links & pointers to recipes}

[eppur_se_muova]

By Bay Area News Group
UPDATED: February 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM MST

Nanaimo bars. This Canadian specialty is a no-bake three-layer bar: a base of nuts, coconut, graham cracker crumbs and melted chocolate; a middle of custard or buttercream frosting; and a chocolate top. Caveat: Many recipes call for an egg in the bottom layer to help hold it together; this one doesn’t. For a less ambitious cookie that uses a recipe similar to just the base, search for no-bake chocolate coconut snowballs.

Mexican wedding cookies. Also known as snowballs or Russian tea cakes, these are buttery nut-based balls rolled in powdered sugar. Many recipes online; here’s cookie queen Maida Heatter’s version.
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Ginger snaps: Most molasses cookies and ginger snaps use eggs, but the recipe for Aunt Big’s Gingersnaps in Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything” is egg-free. Bittman describes them as “not too sweet … super-crisp, the kind that stick in your teeth.”
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Yogurt chocolate chip cookies: An easy drop cookie that — except for yogurt replacing the eggs — uses the same ingredients as the Toll House classic.
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the rest, and links: https://www.denverpost.com/2025/02/20/6-great-cookies-without-eggs/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Tons and tons of recipes without eggs.

People are acting as if they'll literally die if they go 24 hours between eggs.

Don't recall this before.

[slightlv]

2. The only thing comparable, IMO, is the run on TP!

American's are stupidly reactive. They don't think at all....

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Thanks for the drive down memory lane.

Eggs, toilet paper, who knows what's next.

Here in the senior center the main thing is getting to the dining room by 4:30.

[slightlv]

4. I've still got 8 cats, a dog, and a husband...

trying my best to tough it out here at home. Besides, I paid cash for this house (poor excuse of one, that it is)... I'm gonna hope to die in my own bedroom someday. But I will admit, the sound of "assisted living" hasn't been sounding so bad the last few months!

[La Coliniere]

5. Thank you for posting this.

Going to try the Mexican Wedding cookies soon.

[chowmama]

6. Anything based on shortbread

Butter, sugar, flour, pinch of salt. That's it.

I didn't say they were good for you, but they sure taste good.