Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies
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My Eggless chocolate chip cookies have no eggs or milk, but are perfectly soft, chewy, and crisp-edged. They are ready in just 15 minutes, with no chill time required.
I first made these no-egg chocolate chip cookies by complete accident- I had my heart set on baking, realized I was out of eggs, and decided to improvise.
I didn’t just pull it out of a hat, though: I took my vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe and tweaked it with what I had on hand. The result was one of my favorite cookies ever. They bake up crisp around the edges, soft and chewy in the middle, and melty chocolate in every bite.
They taste exactly like classic chocolate chip cookies: buttery, sweet, and rich, with no eggs needed. The ultimate test was getting the seal of approval from my partner and sister, who are very critical of cookies. Let’s just say the cookies didn’t last more than 24 hours.
What readers are saying
★★★★★ – “I make these cookies so much that they’re now known as ‘my’ cookies, and my nieces clamor for them. It’s cool that they have no eggs but are still as decadent and chewy as anything with eggs.” – Jay
Key Ingredients
Here are some notes and substitutions for the main ingredients in my eggless cookies. The full list with measurements is in the recipe card.
- All-purpose flour. Be sure to sift the flour well to ensure no clumps remain throughout.
- Butter. Unsalted and softened butter. You can use oil (I tested coconut oil and vegetable oil), but the texture will change: the cookies will be softer instead of rich.
- White and brown sugar. A combination of the two sugars yields the perfect cookie texture. The white sugar keeps the edges crispy, and the brown sugar keeps them soft and chewy.
- Cream cheese. This is my secret ingredient that keeps the cookies soft and gooey in the middle. Full-fat cream cheese is a must: low-fat cream cheese resulted in slightly gummy cookies (due to excess water).
- Chocolate chips. I like dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips because the cookies are already plenty sweet. If you can find mini chocolate chips, even better, because their size helps them distribute more evenly through the cookie dough.
How to make eggless chocolate chip cookies
Step 1- Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl. In another, cream the butter, sugars, cream cheese, and vanilla until glossy. Add the dry mix, then fold in the chocolate chips.
Step 2- Scoop the dough onto a parchment-lined baking tray using a 2-inch scoop or spoon.
Step 3- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes, or until the edges begin to brown.
Arman’s recipe tips
- Use butter and cream cheese from a block. I’ve found that for the best desserts, always use butter and cream cheese from a block, not a tub or spread. The ones that come in tubs or spreads often have added fillers and water to make them easier to spread, which is counterproductive for the best eggless cookies.
- Do not overmix. Overmixing cookie dough results in flatter, slightly crisp cookies that, while delicious, lack soft, chewy centers. Fold everything together until just combined, leaving no visible flour pockets.
- Decorate towards the end. I like to remove the cookies from the oven before they’re fully baked and top them with extra chocolate chips. This isn’t just for aesthetics, but to make sure each bite has some melty chocolate in it.
Frequently asked questions
You can freeze the cookie dough (unbaked) for up to one month. When ready to bake, let the dough sit at room temperature for at least 30 minutes.
You can! Traditionally, chilling dough yields thicker cookies because the fat firms up and melts slowly as it bakes. Saying that, because I’m using cream cheese in the dough and skipping out on the eggs, the cookies naturally turn out thicker than most.
I tested this recipe with two brands of vegan cream cheese (Tofutti and Miyokos) and found that the cookies crumbled after baking. I recommend sticking to the original recipe or making my vegan cookies instead.
✅ Nutrition reviewed
Nutrition information has been reviewed by registered dietitian Felicia Newell, MScAHN, RD, CPT.
Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Ingredients
- 1 cup + 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 cup cream cheese 4 oz, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt, and set aside. In a separate bowl, add the softened butter, sugars, cream cheese, and vanilla extract, and cream together until smooth and glossy. Gently add in the dry ingredients until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips at the end.
- Line a large baking tray with parchment paper. Scoop out 12 portions of cookie dough and place them on the tray about an inch apart to allow the cookies to spread.
- Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges begin to firm up.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool on the tray for 10 minutes, before carefully transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- Make them gluten-free. Replace the all-purpose flour with a gluten-free flour blend that has added xanthan gum. I’ve successfully used Bob’s Red Mill before, so I can’t vouch for other brands.
- TO STORE: If you plan on enjoying the cookies within five days, keep them stored at room temperature, in a sealed container. If you’d like to keep the cookies longer, store them in the refrigerator and they’ll keep well for up to 2 weeks.
- TO FREEZE: Place leftover cookies in a ziplock bag and store them in the freezer for up to 6 months.
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Originally updated September 2023, updated and republished October 2025
Yum! Super easy and delicious! I swapped cream cheese for blended cottage cheese and chilled for 1 hour! Perfection!
Thanks for sharing this Lynn, and sounds like a great substitution!
If I substituted almond or coconut flour for the flour and a sugar free white and brown sugar, with Lily’s Sugar Free Chips, how do you think it will be affected? And thank you
Hi yes i don’t think this would work out well with the flour substitutes. We’ve only tested this extensively with wheat flour. The sugar substitutes would be fine, though.
I just made and they came out so good!
Thank you
Can’t wait to try.
They turned out great. Definitely a keeper.
So glad to hear that Sherry! Thanks for the comment.
Thank you for the nice and easy recipe, especially eggless!
So glad this was helpful! Cookies can be eggless and still super delicious 🙂
We make these all the time. Such a simple recipe and it’s sooo soft and oooh yummy. We can’t stop once we start
So easy and so delicious!! I refrigerated the dough for 1.5 hours and they took 9 minutes in my oven.
Came out perfect, however I baked them for 9 minutes,thank you so much
Love to hear that, Ruby!
These cookies are delicious and so easy to make. I brought them to a family gathering and they were devoured very quickly. Perfect for my niece who has an egg allergy.
I loved it! Even doubled up the recipe.
I doubled this too. Best chocolate cookies I’ve ever made! Thank you
Amazing recipes…I already recooked for 2 times, and amazing result. Thank you so much.
So welcome, Ade!
Thanks love
Awsome will make again
Love! Super easy to make and came out very fluffy and delicious
I male them all the time, my friends are obsessed
Thanks, Carolina 🙂
It was just like crumbl cookies
I make these cookies so much that they’re now known as “my” cookies and my nieces clamor for them. It’s crazy that they have no eggs but are still as decadent and chewy as anything with eggs.
😀 YES!!!
These are the BEST eggless cookies ever.
Awesome recipe! I have an egg allergy and this recipe tastes better than cookies I remember.
made this at 2 am, replaced the brown sugar with another cup of sugar cause i couldn’t find it, the hand mixer got broken and i couldn’t use it so i had to use a fork and sheer will to mix it all together. Still came out perfect, 10/10.
By far the BEST chocolate chip cookies ever! The cookies are soft, and chocked full of chips. Even better than traditional recipes containing eggs. I make these for my grandson who has en egg allergy and have to double the recipe because everyone else wants to eat them. This is the only chocolate chip recipe I make.
Thanks for the feedback, Lori!
Thankyou for sharing the recipe
Can I use coconut sugar
These are so good!
I make these weekly!
These are absolutely decadent. I made them gluten free as well..my new favorite chocolate chip cookie. Needed to come up with a dessert for a guest who cannot eat eggs. I, myself, am gluten free. I will be making these often!! Thank you for such a wonderful, easy recipe!
This is probably one of the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever made! It was a hit in my house. They were savory, soft and chewy! This will definitely be my go to recipe!
Would you mind sharing what you used instead of the flour to make them gluten free please? I too need to make them gluten free for myself. Thanks!
You can find 1:1 gluten free flour almost anywhere these days…
Absolutely heaven cookies! The best eggless recipe I ever tried. I tried soo many eggless cookies and hands down these are the bestest!
Thank you for such an amazing recipe
One time I was out of eggs so I looked up “eggless chocolate chip cookies” and found this recipe. I had everything else on hand. I have never stopped making them since, this is my regular chocolate chip cookie recipe. They’re the best!
Thank you for taking the time to send me all your awesome recipes that I have asked for. I have signed up for more. They have all been a hit, a never fail with myself and my family. Thank again and keep them coming.
Awesome cookies
Very easy to make & he doesn’t mine sharing recipes & responds instantly to your dm when sending a direct msg to his dm just only saying recipe 😀
The best eggless chocolate chip cookies recipe I’ve ever made.
I look forward to baking with the cooler weather coming. Thank You for your recipes. I plan on using them and sharing the love.
Very good, I loved these! Highly recommended.
These are the best cookies ever!!!! I make them all the time now and everyone freaks out when they have them and thinks I’m an amazing baker. Lol thank you so much for this recipe
My son is allergic to eggs, peanuts, & tree nuts. I am so glad I found this recipe because he loves them!
These turned out sooooooo good. Thank you for a simple easy recipe to follow
It was delicious!! 😋 I had to start again because I accidentally added 1 tbsp of baking soda but I realized that it was 1 tsp lol I have bad eyesight 😆 but it was good! And it came in handy when I did not have any eggs in stock!! Thanks
Best recipe I’ve ever used the cookies were think but so soft on the inside!
Love this recipe so much! Could this be used for a cookie cake?
I don’t see why not 🙂
I’ve been lurking, tagging and reading your recipes for a few weeks and this is the first that I tried! Amazing! Kids loved them. Plan is to make a batch and freeze and have them to hand 😊 looking forward to trying more recipes! Thank you!
heyy, just wanted to ask one quick thing: can i rest the cookies for a day in the refrigerator? would it effect the cookies in a bad way?
That is fine.
Probably the best recipe I’ve ever made. I didn’t refrigerate because I was impatient. Cookies are really soft and delicious, turned out great.
Hands up to the baker and creator of this recipe! I’ve recently found out I’m allergic to eggs and have been struggling with eating desserts. I followed the recipe to the T. The only difference is I left the cookies in the fridge overnight and then ended up baking them for 13 minutes. Hands down the best chocolate chip cookies ever! They are melt in your mouth filled with chocolate yumminess!
If you’re looking for a chewy in the middle and crispy on the outside eggless recipe this is it. The cream cheese makes the perfect texture. I was tasked to make an eggless recipe for a bake sale and was so happy to find this one that worked. The only eggless chocolate chip cookie recipe you’ll need!
Great recipe! I followed the recipe to the “t” the first time to get a feel and the cookies came out great! Actually look and feel better than normal and the taste, wow! I went overboard on the chocolate chips and needed more! Next time, I may cut some of the sugar!
Can these be made gluten free?
You can try and see 🙂
So good! I made the recipe exactly converting to grams and measuring everything. I just didn’t have brown sugar so I doubled the white sugar. They passed the overnight test and were really chewy and soft and delicious this morning. Will make again.
They turned out just as good as the ones my Mom use to make, with eggs. I did though
ad 1 packet of instant oatmeal with apple and it was even better my husband said. Thank you for the recipe.
Can almond flour be used instead of all purpose flour for this recipe?
Not that I’ve tried 🙂
Love your recipes. Can you give instructions/adjustments for high altitude. Thank you
Wow… I’m going to bake these awesome cookies… Just love them…
We just tried this recipe and it’s brilliant! The only changes I made were 1) cut away those 4 tbsp of sugars and 2) roll into a log, refridgerate before cutting them up into 16 cookies. They were perfect!! ❤️
The cream cheese added this smooth, rich texture that we absolutely LOVED!!!
I have been making these cookies and I would prefer they don’t spread out too flat but would rise with a nice soft inside and crispy coat. Any advice please.
I made these for the kids I babysit who are allergic to eggs! They came out absolutely delicious!
Delicious! My family loved these! Probably our best cookie recipe we have tried yet. I also missed the step to refrigerate the dough before baking and placed them right into the oven. I did however have to cook a total of 18 min @375. They were perfect.
We made a second batch right away and placed that one in the refrigerator to try the difference. So good.
Thank you!!
Dude, you nailed it! I’ve given up dairy and eggs due to high cholesterol. I made these according to your recipe, but I substituted plant based unsalted butter and plant based cream cheese. Since my fridge is packed, I also refrigerated the dough in a bowl for a few hours before forming into cookies. These are easy and amazing!
EXACTLY the same as any recipe containing egg. We cannot tell the difference! We had a taste test with the Tollhouse recipe. Could not tell which was which!
I made these for my niece, who is allergic to eggs. I loved the taste however these are a bit tricky to work with. The dough is very sticky, even after being chilled overnight. I found they baked best when the dough was at room temp, making small cookies (about 1 tbsp each), for 9-10 min. They will be slightly browned on the top, however this made for the most sturdy cookie. When I tried making larger cookies they did not hold up. I also like slightly fewer chips, I used about 1 and 3/4 cups for 24 servings.
Great eggless cookie, thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
Great recipe! Friends didn’t even know they were eggless. I was short cream cheese by about 2 tbsp and used some creme fraiche to make up the difference. Added a little bit of quick oats and walnuts, in addition to dark and milk chocolate chips. Left the dough in the fridge for about three days and found my favourite batch was the last batch – super moist! Baked for 10 min. Thank you!
Hi, I’m just came upon this recipe as I’ve been trying to find a legitimate eggless cookies recipe, and this recipe seems great.
And I’m just about to make them.
But I do have a question;
Can I refrigerate those cookie dough as it is (in the mixing bowl) instead of making then in 12 ball doughs..
Due to space constraints ..should I be making them in bulk ..which comes to my next question, where can I just double or triple up the recipe at one go ?
Looking forward to your reply 🙂…and also the outcome of these cookies in a bit.
Hi Rene- Yes you can refrigerate the bowl and yes you can triple it.
Can I use a substitute for butter like applesauce? Thank you for your awesome recipes!
These are delicious! They are the right amount of crispy, soft and gooey and the flavor YUMM. I did not get a stomach ache after eating them as I do with most chocolate chip cookies. Minimal ingredients yet fun to make, I added pecans. I am looking forward to making them with my 4 year old granddaughter.
I have more than tripled the batch, left them in the bowl overnight and other times rolled them into balls, frozen them, then put them in a big container. We take out however many cookies we need at a time for entertaining. You will NOT be disappointed!
Hello! Thank u for this recipe. Can’t wait to try it! But I wanted to ask u if using sweetener instead of regular sugar changes anything in the recipe…
Thanks in advance!
I can’t wait to try this recipe! If it works – you’re going to be my favourite! 😅🙌🏼
Could I use sth else than cream cheese? Thick yoghurt or coconut cream? Here in NZ it’s not easy to get vegan cream cheese 🙆🏽♀️
Thank you! Jessi 🌼
Hi Jessi- can you use standard cream cheese?
Am I able to substitute cream cheese with plain yogurt?
I haven’t tried but you can welcome to experiment and see 🙂