Eggless Mango Cream Dessert Boxes that are actually delicious ♥

Best Eggless Mango Cream Dessert Box… What is the best thing about the hot Indian summer? A never ending supply of mangoes, and of course inspiration to create desserts around the king of fruits. Desserts in glasses or boxes are fascinating because of the visual delight they offer, and this eggless mango cream dessert box is everything! I could eat this dessert all summer long.

There’s something utterly charming about desserts in boxes or rather dessert boxes. I love that so much goodness can be neatly layered in them, they show the dessert off well and they are so easily transportable, don’t you think? Dessert boxes make the perfect gift while the lid keeps the dessert fresh and moist. Wrap around a pretty ribbon with a little tag and it screams delicious edible gift! Now who wouldn’t like to dive into this Eggless Mango Cream Dessert Box?

There’s also something irresistible about mango desserts and every summer I make different ones. The mango season is always impatiently awaited here on the Indian subcontinent where the local bazaar is lined with carts overflowing with the fruit. It is easily our favourite summer fruit, the most popular one and isn’t referred to as the King of Fruits in India for no reason! I’ve added the Mango Cream Dessert Box to the list of my favourite summer desserts.

With layers of absolute deliciousness, it’s another dessert that screams summer! A light sponge {part wholegrain}, a stabilized vanilla cream, diced mangoes {I used slightly tart mangoes here}, eggless mango curd poured over… and repeat. What’s not to love? I love the play of textures and flavours, the refreshing bites of fresh mango and the slightly tart mango curd all please the palate. If you don’t have a 4″ dessert box, go ahead and turn this into a layer cake or trifle, but please do try it. Desserts like this make summer so worthwhile!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Eggless Mango Cream Dessert Box

With layers of absolute deliciousness, it's another dessert that screams summer! A light sponge {part wholegrain}, a stabilized vanilla cream, diced mangoes {I used slightly tart mangoes here}, eggless mango curd poured over… and repeat. What's not to love? I love the play of textures and flavours, the refreshing bites of fresh mango and the slightly tart mango curd all please the palate. If you don't have a 4" dessert box, go ahead and turn this into a layer cake or trifle.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword agar agar, baking, dessert, eggless, eggless baking, eggless cake, eggless layered cake, fruit, homemade, Indian dessert cake, mangoes, simple, summer dessert, sweet, tropical, vegetarian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
1 hour 2 hours
Servings 1 person

Ingredients

Eggless sponge {two 6" sponges}

  • 105 g buttermilk
  • 15 g oil
  • 15 g clarified butter/ghee melted, cooled
  • 50 g castor sugar
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • Pinch salt
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • 25 g whole wheat flour/aata
  • 60 g plain flour /maida

Stabilized vanilla cream

  • 250 g Amul Fresh cream 25% fat cream
  • 1.5 tbsp cornflour
  • 1 tsp agar agar
  • 2 tbsp castor sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp clarified butter/ghee

Eggless mango curd

  • 150 g mango puree strained
  • 25 g castor sugar
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • 1 tbsp clarified butter/ghee

Instructions

Eggless vanilla sponge

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Line two 6″ tins {round or square} with parchment.
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and give them a good whisk.
  • Divide between the tins (approx 130g each), spread uniformly and bake for 15-20 minutes, until the tester comes out clean. These are flat 1 cm cakes that are perfect for layering the dessert box.
  • Cool in tin for 10 minutes, then cool completely on the rack. Gently trim the tops and stamp out 4″ squares using the dessert box as a guide.

Eggless mango curd

  • Whisk together the mango puree, sugar and cornflour sugar in a saucepan and simmer over low heat for 4-5 minutes, stirring constantly.
  • Once slightly thickened, take off heat and whisk in the clarified butter/ ghee.
  • Cool.

Stabilized vanilla cream

  • Whisk together all the ingredients in a glass bowl.
  • Microwave for 30 seconds, whisk again. Repeat until the cream begins to thicken at the edges, 3-4 times. Cool, whisking now and then to keep the cream uniform and to prevent a film from forming on top.
  • Note: You can also make this on the stove top. Stir constantly.

Assemble

  • Line the base of the dessert box with a layer of cake.
  • Pipe over a layer of cream.
  • Top the cream with a layer of diced fresh mango and drizzle mango curd over it.
  • Top with the second layer of sponge, press gently into place, and cover with cream., flattening the cream flush with the edges of the box.
  • Refrigerate for about an hour for the flavours to mature or overnight.

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Quick Delicious Stone Fruit Crumble … dessert for breakfast or breakfast for dessert!

Quick Delicious Stone Fruit Crumble … often the best way to begin a day, else to end a meal! Dessert for breakfast or breakfast for dessert and life can’t get better than that in summer! If you like a hearty, somewhat guilt free ‘fruit loaded’ beginning to the day, this might be a good idea. It has oats and walnuts too! Sold yet?

Summer is one season I absolutely love, not least for the dreadful heat and unbearable humidity, but for stone fruit! Think summer fruits with a pit in the centre, think colourful, luscious and delicious fleshy fruit – mangoes, peaches, cherries, apricots, nectarines, lychee, plums…

My first thought was a smoothie which is how my day begins every single day, 365 days a year using fruit in season. I had already frozen fruit for smoothies the day before, so my next thought of course was a crumble! I always enjoy making crumbles and this Quick Delicious Stone Fruit Crumble turned out a perfect destination for the few hapless stone fruit in the fridge … a couple of peaches, a few plums and a small bowl of cherries.

What are stone fruit you might ask? Stone fruits get their name from the pit or “stone” in their center that is encased in a fleshy outer area. Also known as drupes, stone fruits tend to have thin skins that may be fuzzy or smooth. The pit is actually a large seed, and stone fruits can be either clingstone or freestone depending on how easily the flesh pulls away from the seed. Since most stone fruits won’t ripen after being harvested, they’re picked at their peak and only good for a small window of time. This makes them highly seasonal, with different stone fruits arriving at different seasons.

https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-stone-fruit/

Then I saw this huge glass mug on the counter and I knew CRUMBLE was going to be it! I thought it might look nice to see squishy colourful fruit pressed against the sides smothered by a crumbly, buttery topping! The rest came together pretty soon, on the go actually.

Crumbles don’t take very long to put together and I often make one large one in my 8″ KitchenAid baking dish. Once done, everyone just digs in. Fewer fruit mean individual servings though this ones seems good for a single large serving or even one shared by two. Dig right in!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Quick Delicious Stone Fruit Crumble

Course Appetizer, Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, British
Keyword baking, cherries, cookie, crumble, dessert, eggless, eggless baking, fruit, homemade, one bowl, simple, summer dessert, vegetarian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
15 minutes
Servings 1 serving

Ingredients

Fruit filling

  • 2 peaches stoned, diced
  • 3 plums stoned, diced
  • 100 g cherries pitted
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • 1 tbsp vanilla sugar
  • 1 tsp lime juice

Crumble topping

  • 1/4 cup walnut halves chopped
  • 1/3 cup plain flour
  • 1/2 cup rolled oats
  • 1 tbsp vanilla sugar
  • 2-3 tbsp ghee
  • 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C

Fruit filling

  • Place all the ingredients in a large bowl and toss until the fruit is coated well.
  • Transfer to a large cup/bowl and pack in well.

Crumble topping

  • Toss the walnuts, plan flour, oats and sugar in a bowl until well mixed.
  • Drizzle over the clarified butter and vanilla extract and mix well with a fork {or your fingertips to get an even light crumble.
  • Cover the fruit with the crumble topping. Top with walnut halves if desired.
  • Bake for 35-45 minutes.
  • Cover the top with a sheet of foil if the top is overbrowning after 25 minutes.
  • Stand for 15-30 minutes. Serve with fresh fruit, vanilla chantilly cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream and caramelised walnuts.

10 decadent desserts for World Chocolate Day … Have a sweet one ♥

Happy World Chocolate Day… as the saying goes

“As long as there is chocolate, there will be happiness.” Wayne Gerard Trotman

There are days and there are days, and then there’s a special day for CHOCOLATE! We never had days so deliciously marked when we were young, though chocolate was an inherent part of holidays, festivities, birthdays, actually most celebrations. That charm of chocolate was second to none. It made everyone happy!

From the almost emaciated looking Cadbury bars and 5 Star bars we bought locally in India in the 1970’s to the grand kilo slabs of Cadbury Dairy Milk and Maltesers from the UK, Hersheys bars from the States and then the triangular Swiss Toblerone, there was always much to look forward to when visitors from overseas arrived. I can never forget the Cadbury’s vintage red netted chocolate filled Christmas stockings that my aunt would religiously bring for us from the UK, the gold foil covered chocolate coins she would slip in secretly! That was what chocolate dreams were made of!

True to the words by Mariska Hargitay – “Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.” 

As I began blogging, chocolate was an integral part of my pantry. Chocolate paired with everything! No trip the the US was complete without big bags of Ghirardelli or Nestle Toll House chocolate chips and tins of cocoa powder. My first stop was always the chocolate aisle in grocery stores, filling the cart like chocolate was going to get extinct. That glee when we flew back home and reached out for the loot! Chocolate always brought joy!

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And then when Penguin Random House India invited me to write a cookbook, how could it be anything else. It was always going to be CHOCOLATE! I loved everything about bringing it to life – writing the recipes, the thoughts that inspired each, styling the frames, then shooting them! It was a wholly consuming affair but so worth it at the end of the day. My daughter designed the entire layout of my cookbook and I loved how good it looked in print. The cherry on the cake, a foreword by Marryam Reshii, an absolute honour for me!

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The idea of a chocolate book is credited to my sweet friend Bina who blogs at A Bit Wholesomely, one she pitched while we were driving around Hyderabad several years ago. I am grateful to Penguin Random House India for believing I could do it, for my family and friends who rallied around me. You can buy a copy here on Amazon. It’s available worldwide now on Amazon and in bookstores too.

These are all memories of a lifetime and when I think of chocolate, I have so many around it, and I bet you do too. I love working with chocolate, I love creating desserts with chocolate, I love styling around chocolate and nothing can stop me shooting it!

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So Happy World Chocolate Day to you. Have a delicious one. I leave you with a round up of a few chocolate recipes and you can find a load more HERE! I hope this inspires you to head to the kitchen and stir up some deliciousness!

Eggless Blue Matcha Chocolate Cavity Cake
I’ve always loved blue as a colour and it’s endlessly fascinating to see the shades of blue that the butterfly pea flower reflects in the blue matcha tea. It seemed right to try a cavity cake with a blue matcha filling, and oh my, we couldn’t stop eating it. There’s something so calming and ethereal about blue in patisserie, and this cavity cake for 2 seems a perfect place for it.
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Eggless Black Forest Dessert Box
Eggless Black Forest Dessert Box… Fresh cherries mean there's always room for dessert & dessert boxes of course! 
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Eggless Chocolate Coffee & Vanilla Ombre Cake
When chocolate, coffee and vanilla come together to create a dreamy ombre cake, it can only be good. Here's an eggless Chocolate Coffee & Vanilla Ombre Cake that is as simple as it is delicious!
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Bittersweet Chocolate Eggless Sable Cookie Tart
Simple to make, eggless, deeply chocolaty with the comforting bite of a cookie in a tart! When you get so much goodness in a tart so easily, there's not much more you need.
Makes one 8" cookie tart
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Petite Eggless Triple Chocolate Orange Cakes
Petite Eggless Triple Chocolate Orange Cakes … every bit as delicious as they sound. Deep, moist, chocolaty and quite pretty, these turned out to be such fun to bring together,
Check out this recipe
Eggless Nutella Fresh Cherry Tart
Deliciously making the best of summer produce when cherries are in plenty! This nobake tart will hit all the right spots!
Check out this recipe
4 Ingredient Fudgy Chocolate Brownies – Eggless & Gluten-free
Fudgy, eggless, whole grain, one bowl, hand mixed and quite special, you are going to absolutely love these gluten free, millet brownies that come together in minutes.
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Ombre Coffee Chocolate Panna Cotta…with a deep coffee sauce
Ombre Coffee Chocolate Panna Cotta brings together two things I love the most – panna cotta and desserts in ombre. Loved the way it slid out, one shade slowly following another, the perfect jiggle, charming hues. Made a quick coffee sauce too though the panna cotta is really good on it's own as well. Creamy, deep flavours, satisfying.
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Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta
Delicious, divine, sinful and silky, if you love a good panna cotta and chocolate is your flavour, then dive right in! This might just be the dessert you are looking for!
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Eggless Tiramisu Chocolate Tart
Simple pantry ingredients make this delicious tiramisu inspired tart with classic flavours of coffee, Kahlua and mascarpone.
Check out this recipe
Wholegrain Chocolate Buckwheat Sablés
Crisp, deeply chocolate, buttery, wholegrain, eggless, Wholegrain Chocolate Buckwheat Sablés are the yummiest cookies ever! Adapted from The Boy Who Bakes.
Check out this recipe

I’ll leave you with one of my favourite quotes on chocolate …

“May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is … Chocolate.” Geraldine Solon

Do tag me on Instagram at passionateaboutbaking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake… just the kind of cavity you will ♥

Eggless Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake … as promised last week, here it is, the recipe for this stunning cake. There are cakes and there are cakes, then there are special cakes. This is one of the special ones. They might look like a ton of work, but hey, read on…

Last week I shared the Secret To My Cavity Cake, the how to make it video. Here’s a delicious version of the cavity cake, three layers fill the cavity – dark chocolate, vanilla bean white chocolate and strawberry jelly from scratch. I always have frozen berries in my freezer but you could use fresh ones too. The recipe is a simple one bowl eggless sponge, and the way to make the cavity is as simple as it looks.

WHAT IS A CAVITY CAKE?… you might ask! It’s a cake with a cavity in the middle filled with all sorts of deliciousness. I’ve written a post about it last week, and it’s quite favourite kind of cake at my place. It was also an original idea that came to me one day while playing with cakes and steel cake/cookie cutters!

The steel baking molds I use are from my first visit to Old Delhi, a little shop I found tucked away behind a banyan tree. I returned to that shop in Lal Kuan several times over the years picking up more bakeware, each time making better choices I think! Old Delhi with all its madness and mayhem, the crowds and cacophony, the dusty old buildings, the colour and the energy has always pulled me in.

That was a time almost 20 years ago when vintage food styling props and collectibles, cookie and cake cutters, mousse rings and more meant a trip into Old Delhi, but now good old Amazon brings everything home!

Baking tins, dessert rings, bread knives, bread molds, muffin trays, icing sets, pastry bags … and lots more in a little shop in Old Delhi. Take the Metro to Chawri Bazaar, and a rickshaw from there. {They seem to have a website too now.}

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And so with my vast collection of cake and cookie cutters, one lazy summer afternoon, the cavity cake was born! Some things just work out well and keep getting reinvented in sooooo many different forms. This Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake is just one of them. I’ve made many versions of the cavity cake, in different flavours and shapes as well! They’re always a hit. With a little prior planning, you are going to love making these on a roll!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Chocolate Vanilla Strawberry Jelly Cavity Cake

Another delicious version of the cavity cake, three layers fill the cavity – dark chocolate, vanilla bean white chocolate and strawberry jelly from scratch. I always have frozen berries in my freezer but you could use fresh ones too. The recipe is a simple one bowl eggless sponge, and the way to make the cavity is as simple as it looks. 
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, British
Keyword agar agar, baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, eggless, eggless baking, eggless layered cake, fruit, homemade, strawberries, sweet
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
8 hours
Servings 6

Ingredients

6″ eggless sponge

  • 220 g buttermilk/plain chaach
  • 60 g light oil
  • 130 g sugar
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 40 g whole wheat flour
  • 160 g all-purpose flour

Chocolate layer

  • 75 g cream
  • 50 g dark chocolate chopped

Vanilla white chocolate layer

  • 100 ml cream
  • 15 g sugar
  • 1/4 tsp agar agar
  • 1/2 vanilla bean scraped {save shell for strawberry jelly}
  • 20 g white chocolate

Strawberry jelly

  • 100 g frozen strawberries {or fresh}
  • 100 g water
  • 40 g sugar
  • 1/2 vanilla bean shell
  • 1/2 tsp agar agar

Instructions

6″ eggless sponge

  • Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease and line a 6″ dessert ring lined with foil or a loose bottom baking tin
  • In a large bowl, add all the ingredients and whisk until smooth.
  • Turn into the prepared tin and bake for 40-45 minutes until the tester comes out clean.
  • Cool completely and level the cake.
  • Take a 4″ dessert ring, centralise it and few push it all the way through. Gently remove the cut out, transfer the ring gently to your serving platter. Slice one 1 cm layer from the cut out and return to the cavity and push into place to make the base.
  • Moisten the sponge if desired.
  • Pour over the chocolate layer. Place in freezer for 30 minutes to set.
  • Next pour the vanilla layer. Place in freezer for 30 minutes to set.
  • Lastly pour the strawberry jelly layer. Refrigerate for a couple of hours. Pipe the top if desired.

Chocolate layer

  • Heat the cream and pour over the chocolate. Let it soften, then stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature.

Vanilla white chocolate layer

  • Whisk together the cream, sugar and agar agar and simmer in a saucepan for 3-5 minutes
  • Take off heat, whisk in the scraped vanilla bean and white chocolate. Leave to cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.

Strawberry jelly

  • Place everything in a saucepan and simmer until the berries soften and become mushy, pressing the berries on and off. It should take 10-15 minutes. Strain & cool until the jelly begins to thicken but is still pourable.

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  1. Will this work with any cake?

    It will work with a cake which has a tight firm crumb, with eggs or eggless. It’s best to let the cake cool completely. If in doubt, perhaps freeze it for an hour to get a neat cut. Handle with care since once you cut the cake, you are dealing with a fragile cake ring, so GENTLY does it!

  2. Where can I find the steel cutters from?

    Browse Amazon and you will find a selection of steel cutters. I have some on my Amazon shop here. Make sure you use good quality rings. They work best and last the longest!

  3. Can I use gelatine instead of agar agar?

    Yes, definitely though for the jelly I always find agar agar works best. I always do a dry run with a small portion of the filling to check on the setting properties so we don’t have surprises later. A runny cavity filling will spoil all the fun! Since every brand has a different set, it’s best to do a dry run.

  4. Can the cake be made in advance?

    Yes, certainly. The cake will keep well refrigerated and covered for 2-3 days. If you intend to use fresh garnish, please do so before serving/delivering the cake.

  5. What is the size of this cake?

    This is a 6″ cake and will serve 6 slices.

  6. Do I have to moisten the sponge?

    I always like to moisten sponges gently as it makes them taste better, but that also depends on how long you need to keep it in the fridge, storage conditions etc. Go by your instincts and generally, practice is the best way to learn what works for you!

The Secret To My Cavity Cake … the only kind of cavity you’re going to love!

The Secret To My Cavity Cake; here’s how I make it! This is for all those who have messaged me and waited patiently for a video on how I made the cavity I’m addicted to making, that fun idea that came to me a while ago. Quite a genius idea if I may say so myself ♥!

https://passionateaboutbaking.com/foodpicturesPAB/2022/07/Chocolate-Vanilla-Strawberry-Jelly-Cavity-Cake.mp4
The Secret To My Cavity Cake

What is a cavity cake you might ask? It’s a term I coined! Think of it as the opposite of an entremet perhaps, a cake with a filling vs a cake in a filling. It’s a fun concept, much simpler than you can imagine and it works well with all cakes, with eggs or eggless. It’s a simple technique if you watch the video, and the result is quite neat.

Cavity cakes are colourful, they are fun, they offer a great surprise when you slice them AND they’re simple! Oh and of course they’re a great change from the same old boring cakes we see everyday..

Think about it – colours, layers, flavours, textures – if you can think it, you can do it!.

While thinking of different ideas for my feed on Instagram, I came up with this idea one day, not sure if it would work. Stamped out the centre of an eggless cake with a slightly smaller steel cutter and I thought that was quite neat. Now for the base. I sliced a layer of the stamped out bit and voila, a cavity cake was created. Just a couple of graded steel cake rings is what I needed!

Mango Saffron Shrikhand Cavity Cake was the first cavity cake I ever made, and it was love at first bite! This wasn’t just a simple layered cake. This delicious eggless cake had a cavity filled and then topped with the most indulgent and luxurious saffron shrikhand. That just meant more deliciousness in every bite!

The first time I posted a cavity cake on Instagram, it caused much happiness and a bit of a stir among my followers. To be honest, the level of interest caught me off guard. I was flooded with questions both on the post and in direct messages.

Each time I shared a new cavity cake there was renewed interest, more questions, requests for a how to cut such a neat cavity video etc. It was time to shoot The Secret To My Cavity Cake and here it is on the blog. It’s been recreated several times, with cakes with eggs and without and the feedback has been great.

It’s always nice to get feedback and it’s mostly been around two things – how easy the process is after watching the video, and what a surprise everyone got when the first slice was cut! I agree. Each time I slice a cavity cake, I’m wait eagerly to see the inside, the cavity. It’s always fascinating, the only kind of cavity you’re going to love!

I’ll share this delicious version of the cavity cake next week, so please stay tuned! It’s a layered cake. Three layers fill the cavity – dark chocolate, vanilla bean white chocolate and strawberry jelly from scratch. I always have frozen berries in my freezer but you could use fresh ones too. The recipe is a simple one bowl eggless sponge, and the way to make the cavity is as simple as it looks. Can’t wait to share it!

Do check out several different versions on my reels on Instagram, a few here on the blog.

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Not Quite Anzac Cookies .. wholesome, eggless oat & walnut cookies

Not Quite Anzac Cookies .. wholesome, eggless oat & walnut cookies. Sweet, chewy inside, crisp on the outside, deliciously addictive biscuits… have I tempted you yet? This eggless cookies recipe is a variation on the immensely popular Anzacs, cookies that originated sometime during World War I, and are associated with the Australia New Zealand Army Corps.

I began making Anzac cookies years ago almost similar to the celebrated and much loved Anzacs but for the coconut. The cookies have been made over and over again, just so many times that the eggless cookies recipe has evolved into something else. There’s another version you see below, the Eggless Wholegrain Almond Jaggery Oat Cookies.

Most of my twists to the recipe have seemingly lost the characteristic Anzac Cookie-ness … no coconut for one, yet they are deliciously addictive bites. They disappear fresh out of the oven, calling your name as you pass by!

It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation. You can read more about their origin and history here. A point of interest is the lack of eggs to bind the ANZAC biscuit mixture together. Because of the war, many of the poultry farmers had joined the services, thus, eggs were scarce. The binding agent for the biscuits was golden syrup or treacle.

This current version of eggless Anzac Cookies is nom nom nom good, a little guilt free too! I can have nibble them all day long. They are nice, chewy if you like them them that way, and crisp if you bake them longer! I love the flavours trapped within – brown sugar and butter create some delightful butterscotch like magic.

Walnut meal adds yummy taste, while whole rolled oats roughly ground make for great texture. Any cookie recipe that uses loads of walnuts is one I love because walnuts are my favourite tree nut and you’ll see me use them often!

More COOKIE recipes here, recipes that use WALNUTS here, and recipes that use OATS here!

Do tag me on Instagram at passionateaboutbaking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Not Quite Anzacs

This eggless cookies recipe of Anzac Cookies is nom nom nom good! They are nice, chewy if you like them them that way, and crisp if you bake them longer! I love the flavours trapped within – brown sugar and butter create some delightful butterscotch like magic, while walnuts and oats lend it great texture!
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 15 cookies

Equipment

  • 1 blender/nut grinder
  • 1 stand mixer or large bowl and electric hand mixer
  • 1 Oven
  • 2 cookie tray2
  • 1 cookie scoop or tablespoon measure

Ingredients

  • 100 g clarified butter/ghee room temperature
  • 85 ml golden syrup
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 50 g castor sugar
  • 50 g brown sugar
  • 115 g plain flour
  • 100 g walnuts
  • 100 g whole rolled oats

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 150C
  • Run the walnuts in the processor with the flour until you get a fine-meal. Turn into a bowl, then grind the whole rolled oats roughly. We aren’t looking for flour, just a small grind. That gives you good texture.
  • Add the butter, golden syrup and sugars to the bowl of a stand mixer {or a large bowl} and whisk until fluffy. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well. The dough will be a little stiff.
  • Drop a tablespoon or cookie scoop of dough on parchment lined cookie sheets, flatten with the tines of a fork. {I rolled the dough into balls, flattened them slightly with the palm of my hand, and then further flattened them by pressing down with a fork.}.
  • Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.
  • Leave to cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes {they are quite tender when they come out of the oven}, shape them gently if you'd like to {see below in Q&A}, and then transfer on racks to cool completely.

Is clarified butter you use the same as ghee, the staple Indian kitchen ingredient?

Yes, absolutely. Use the brand that you like, else use a home made ghee. It might not be a normal baking ingredient, but trust me with this. I love the flavour it adds, and I find ghee easier to use than butter, especially in summer. For me, that it is stable at room temperature and doesn’t soil is one less thing to store in the fridge.

Can I use butter instead of clarified butter/ghee?

Yes of course.

How do you get the cookies round and uniform?

Use a round cookie cutter to shape the cookies while warm and soft , swirling the cutter around the cookie to gently bring it into shape. This takes a few seconds but is a great hack for uniform cookies.

My cookies are too soft even after they have cooled completely?

Return the tray to the oven for another 5-7 minutes at 150C. Keep an eye on the cookies to ensure they don’t get too brown.

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