Egg-Free Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies
Updated: Feb 24, 2022
These cookies are my absolute favorite go-to cookie to make for pretty much any occasion. I made them over the weekend since my girlfriend and I were going for a weekend away on the Washington coast. Normally these have egg in them, but the girlfriend is allergic to egg. Since it's generally bad form to kill your girlfriend (especially if she's doing all the driving!) I decided to try some of the tricks I've read about for substituting egg in recipes. I was worried that it would be tricky in this recipe because I usually use one whole egg plus one egg yolk in this recipe, but it turned out PERFECT with no egg at all. I was so delighted with the result that I did the applesauce substitution on a tart crust over the weekend, too. (Another blog post coming on that.) I didn't expect the texture to be quite so on-point with these, but I could tell NO difference between these and the regular egg variety. I think I'll be switching over to the applesauce version from now on!