Amazing Egg Chocolate Chip Cookies


Have you heard of the amazing egg chocolate chip cookies? The recipe comes from Anna of Cookie Madness and Rita of Clumbsy Cookie

It calls for hard-boiled egg, rather than raw egg, in the dough. It's sort of an old fashioned technique you don't hear about anymore. I tried researching the topic, but I couldn't find any information or history. It sounds kind of gross, doesn't it?

I had never heard of using hard-boiled egg in a cookie, so I had to try it.



These were very good cookies, and oh-so crumbly. Mine look more rugged than their cookies, and I think it's because I didn't process everything enough.

Give them a try and let me (or them) know what you think!

This is a great way to use up all of those leftover Easter eggs. Also, don't worry; you can't see the egg bits in the cookie.

Mmm, Ghiradelli bittersweet chocolate chips...


Sorry, that's all I have for now.

Posted by at Monday, November 10, 2008
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36 comments:

  1. You're on a cookie binge and I love it!
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  2. Interesting cookies made with a hard boiled egg Em! Love the chocolate shot! Well photographed.
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  3. yum! those look gooey :) i think i am still going for your previous recipe, though. i just love the browned butter. the hard boiling of the egg is a nifty little trick, though!
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  4. A hard boil egg in a cookie! Interesting, I'll have to take you word for it...
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  5. Wow, I gotta say,the thought of this makes me gag, and yet those cookies look amazing. I am torn. I want to try it, but I feel vomiting from the process.
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  6. wow these look so yummy. I love chocolate chip cookies. I once found a recipe for cookies named ovis mollis which had hard boiled egg yolks in them the texture will be more crumbly :) good anyway
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  7. A hard boiled egg in the cookies? That sounds so bizarre.
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  8. I have been very intrigued by these right from the day I read the post on CC. I know I will try these eventually.
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  9. So, I haven't heard of this before, but I did see it here and on Clumbsy Cookie. I doesn't sound appealing! I have to tell you I substituted some butter with pumkin in some chocolate chip cookies and it was actually okay. I don't eat cookies but I tried one and it was really good. I put one stick of unsalted butter and two heaping teaspoons of pumpkin in the batter and they were fabulous! I am getting to become more fearless. Yes, as for you comment, I have a diva on my hands!
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  10. Hey I know that cookie! Glad you liked it. Also this wasn't just me and Anna, Katrina helped too (http://kevnkoi.blogspot.com/2008/10/amazing-hard-boiled-egg-chocolate-chip.html).
    The hard boiled egg thing usually scares people at first, but if you think about it, when you're eating cookies you're eating cookied eggs as well, lol. These are just a little bit more cooked.
    I've used cooked eggs not only on this cookie, but in some other recipes and in a bakery I was we used to even do a pie crust with them, it was really crunchy!
    Can't wait to see the last one, they were 3, weren't they?
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  11. I have a recipe for scones that uses hard-boiled eggs, and I've always wanted to try it! How do these cookies compare to your other recipes?
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  12. Anna was making these like crazy!! They look really good. I used to eat hard boiled eggs all the time before I was vegan. Maybe 4-5 eggs a day haha These would be good to send to Iraq. I bake for the soldiers every month, so I'll give these a shot.
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  13. I read about Anna's journey with the hard boiled egg cookie- and I was very intrigued. I wondered about there being bits of egg in the cookie-glad to hear that's not the case. I am going to try these out soon because they look heavenly!
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  14. Cool! You tried it. I have another crazy recipe for you, but I can't send it to you until I get home.
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  15. Ya know, I've seen this recipe on Anna and Rita's blogs but I thought, "Hard boiled egg?? Gross!" I might just have to try it, since I keep hearing that they are good. :)
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  16. Yes it sounds funny to use hard boiled egg... but as long as the result is good... ;D
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  17. I remember seeing that recipe and being so intrigued but a little afraid. Your cookies look perfect, so I am officially no longer afraid!! :)
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  18. I saw that recipe before, I think, and was... curious. Heh. Those look really good though, I might just give them a shot.
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  19. I've been meaning to try this..Are you sure you can't see the hard boiled egg because that would freak my family out?
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  20. Rita, yes, I have one more.

    Dana, I like the Ultimate ones better.

    Anna, can't wait!

    Candy, just make sure the eggs are processed enough. If you didn't tell your family, would they notice?
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  21. I am glad you tried these. The recipe is very interesting. I will have to give them a whirl!
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  22. I saw that recipe a few weeks ago on Anna's blog...I'm glad to hear you liked them too-I'll have to give them a try the egg thing is very intriguing.
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  23. Sorry, Em, but no, no, NO. There are all kinds of things that you could put in cookies that you could manage to camouflage, but WHY?

    The only possible reason for this is for those people who are terrified of salmonella from eating the raw egg in unbaked cookie dough. I love ya madly, but NO!
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  24. I saw this one, but I just don't think I'm up for trying it. It sounds icky to me. Brave you!
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  25. Okay, I now believe you are deliberately trying to put me in a diabetic coma
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  26. Yep, I've seen these around the blogging world - they're so puffy!!
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  27. This is so interesting, I've never seen anything like it, hard boiled eggs in cookies! They certainly look good!!
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  28. MMMMM - another yummy-looking chocolate chip cookie! Both look so good... which to try first...
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  29. This looks like an amazing cookie. I am totally surprised at the secret ingredient. Never, ever heard of putting hard boiled eggs in cookies.
    Just when you thought you heard of everything, you find out something totally cool. I guess it is a great way to use up hard boiled eggs!
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  30. Interesting! Never tried that technique, something else to put on my To Do list. They surely look great!
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  31. Now thats unuasual but I would give it a try.
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  32. i'd never hard-boil an egg just for this purpose, but if i had some lying around under my bed or whatnot, i'd definitely give this a shot. they're pretty. :)
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  33. Interesting. I've never heard of that technique!
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  34. That's crazy...I have never heard of that! They do look quite tasty though!
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  35. what a fantastic recipe! that photo of those chocolate chips has got me craving some big cookies like no other :)
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  36. I could never get sick of chocolate chip cookies :), I like this theme you had going! I have seen those hardboiled egg cookies you're talking about, I thought that was so cool.

    Can't wait to see what cookies you come up with for that cookie exchange :).
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