3 Ingredient Cookies No Egg No Cookie Cutter

These 3 ingredient cookies no egg are light, crumbling, and very easy to make. Because they don't have egg nor yeast, the dough can be frozen. Make long cylinders, and when you want to bake them, just cut them into slices.

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• Why these cookies are easy to make
• They are so easy to make
• More cookie dough you can freeze
• Making an edible gift
• 📋 3 Ingredient Cookies No Egg

Why these cookies are easy to make

The dough for these cookies is very easy as it is made with only 3 ingredients: sugar, butter, and flour.

Also, you don't need any cookie cutters or messing with a rolling pin to shape them.

To make the dough you need butter at room temperature. You mix the ingredients until the dough is compact and malleable.

The dough is then rolled into a long cylinder (like a sausage), wrapped in cling foil, and stored in the fridge.

The butter resolidified in the fridge and the dough will keep its shape. If you want to make a large supply, you can freeze them.

To bake the biscuits you just need to cut thick slices, lay them on a parchment paper and bake.

Make them fresh every time you want to serve them, they are fragrant, crunchy and will melt in your mouth.

Everyone loves them!

When to bake these cookies

These cookies are ideal when unexpected guests arrive, take them out of the freezer for 30 minutes until the dough slightly softens so you can cut in slices, then bake for 15 minutes.

If you are blocked at home during a snowy winter weekend. They are the perfect companions with a cup of tea and a good book.

My boys love them so much that I like to surprise them in the morning when they go to school.

During the weekend I prepare a few batches of cookie dough cylinders and keep them ready in the fridge.

In the morning I cut a few slices and cook them for 15 minutes while the boys are getting ready for school.

They attend the international school in Valbonne which is 1 hour away and they have to take the bus at 7 am in the morning.

They can enjoy those warm and fragrant cookies during their bus ride, while they watch the sun rising over the Mediterranean sea.

Add any flavor

As the base of these 3 ingredient cookies no egg is very simple, you can add any flavor you like.

In this recipe, I mix the cookie dough with grated pistachios from Bronte. Bronte is located on the Vulcano Etna appendices in Sicily.

The rich soil of the Vulcano and the Mediterranean sun results on the production of some of the best pistachios and they obtained the European recognition of PDO product (Protected Designation of Origin).

Every year there is a Pistachios festival in Sicily to celebrate this product.

Besides pistachios, you can add any other nuts you like.

You can also add some lemon or orange zest, orange flower water, almond essence...any flavor you fancy.

Dry cranberry, chocolate chips, let your imagination go!

They are so easy to make

1. Mince the pistachios into a blender
2. Combine all ingredients and mix for about 5 minutes. The mix will look flaky at the beginning but do not add any water. Keep mixing and it will come together into a dough
3. Add the pistachios or any other flavor at the end.
4. Roll it in two sausage shapes and wrap in cling foil.

5. Keep in the fridge until the butter solidifies again, for a minimum of 30 minutes. You can freeze them if you want to keep a supply.
6. When you are ready to bake them, cut the sausage into slices and lay them over a baking tin covered with parchment paper.
7. Sprinkle with sugar and cook in a hot oven at 355 F- 180 C for 15 minutes.
8. Once they are done, wait at least 10 minutes before placing them on a rack to cool down.

More cookie dough you can freeze

As I often have unexpected guests, especially my sons' friends, I like to keep a reserve of cookies in the freezer that I can take out and bake any time.

Another very handy cookie dough you can freeze is the Struffoli.

It is an Italian dessert mostly known as a Christmas tradition from Naples, but in many other Italian regions, it is eaten during Carnival and has different names: Pignolata, Purcedduzzi or Giggeri.  They are fried dough coated with caramelized honey. You can find the recipe HERE.

If you want to know what else I freeze in my freezer, you can read the article: Once a Month Freezer Meal Prep

Making an edible gift

These cookies are perfect as an edible gift, especially if joined by a bottle of homemade liqueurs like Limoncello or curacao.

When making these liqueurs you need to soak lemon zest or orange zest into 97% alcohol for few weeks. The alcohol is then filtered and mixed with syrup.

I never throw away the zests, I grate them and freeze them to use them to flavor my cakes and biscuits.

These 3 ingredient cookie dough is one of my favorite recipes for adding those alcoholic zests, they add a citrusy inebriant flavor.

I place them into a wrap cello bags thigh it with a nice ribbon and give them as a gift with a bottle of homemade liqueur.

At Christmas i also make mini meringue with the egg white leftover from the Eggnog.

You can find out more about my homemade liqueurs in the category: liqueurs

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