Are you looking for healthier cookies to satisfy your sweet tooth? Have you ever thought about baking at home but don't have an oven? Are you trying to bake your cookies without oven? how to bake cookies without an oven?
Well, we have the perfect solution for you! Eggless whole-wheat cookies without an oven!
Eggless Whole Wheat Cookies Recipe
I remember my childhood days when my grandmother baked delicious cookies for us. The aroma of freshly baked cookies still fills my senses with joy and happiness. With every bite, a flood of memories streams into my mind.
However, as I grew older and started living in cities away from family, I started finding it difficult to bake our batches of cookies, especially when I didn't have an oven for baking at home.
This realization led me on a quest to create something that could help all the cookie lovers out there bake delicious cookies without oven at home.
How to make cookies at home without oven? Baking at home not only allows you to control the ingredients that go into your food, but it also ensures that there are
- no harmful chemicals
- no preservatives
- no eggs
Using whole wheat flour instead of all-purpose flour makes these cookies a healthy option for any dessert lover.
And with our simple recipe, baking without an oven has never been easier. So let's get started on making some delicious and nutritious cookies!
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Quick Notes
Tin Size | Baking Tray 10" |
Oven Temp | 160 °C |
Baking Time | 18 min |
MW Convection Temp | 150 °C |
Baking Time | 18 min |
Demold Instructions | Immediately |
Cooling Time | 15 min |
PS: Use conversion table to switch recipe between grams and cups.
Cookies without Oven Recipe
Add whole wheat flour, organic sugar, baking powder, and ghee in a mixing bowl.
Start mixing all the ingredients until you get a breadcrumb-like texture. Add tutti frutti and 2 tbsp milk to bind the dough.
Quick Tip
Do not knead it else the flour will develop gluten and you will get chewy cookies.
Cover the dough with cling wrap and rest the prepared dough in the refrigerator for 30 min.
After 30 minutes, take the dough out from the refrigerator and, using a rolling pin, roll it into a sheet of a ¼ inch thickness.
Bake Cookies without Oven
To make cookies without oven, keep idli maker on a gas stove. Add salt to it and spread it evenly. Close the lid and let it heat on a medium flame for 15 minutes. Grease all the idli trays.
Using a cookie cutter cut cookies out of the rolled sheet.
Place these cookies on idli plates and place the idli stand inside idli maker. Close the lid and let the cookies bake on slow to medium flame.
It took approximately 25- 30 minutes to bake perfect cookies.
Quick Tip
Just keep a watch. The moment edges of the cookies turn brown, switch off the flame.
Place all the baked cookies on a wired rack and let them cool completely.
Your no oven cookies are ready to be served.
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Ingredients
- 120 gm Whole Wheat Flour
- 70 gm Clarified Butter (Ghee)
- 80 gm Organic Sugar Powdered
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- 2 tbs Milk
- 30 gm Tutti Frutti
Instructions
- Mix the whole wheat flour, sugar, baking powder in a bowl. Add clarified butter (ghee)
- Mix everything to get a breadcrumb like texture. Add tutti fruity and milk to bind the dough.
- Keep the dough in the refrigerator covered with a cling wrap for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes take the dough out of the refrigerator. Roll the dough into a sheet of thickness ¼ inch.
- Using a cookie cutter, cut the cookies out of it and place these on greased Idli molds.
- Meanwhile, preheat the idli cooker with salt as a base.
- Now place the stand, loaded with cookies in an Idli cooker and cover with a lid.
- Let it bake for 25-30 minutes on a medium to low flame.
- When edges turn golden, turn off the flame and keep the cookies on a wired rack to cool down.
- The healthy, delicious Cookies are ready.
Notes
- Every ingredient in the recipe and its quantity has its own significance. Do not alter them.
- This recipe is a tried and tested recipe. Substitute the ingredient/s only at your own risk.
- You can adjust the servings of this recipe in the “Recipe Card” and all the ingredients and their measurement will automatically adjust.
- To switch between grams and cups, use this “Conversion Chart”.
- In Cookies, vegetable oil and butter are not interchangeable. Butter not only provide fat to the cookies but also provide structure. Vegetable oil stays fluid in nature and hence will fail to give structure to your cookies.
- Do not knead the dough else it will develop the gluten that will result in soft and chewy cookies.
- Do not miss to refrigerate the cookie dough. This will avoid cookies spreading while baking.
- I have an Idli maker with 5 trays. To avoid burning off the cookies, I have only used to top 4 trays.
- I have used 1 kg of regular cooking salt to make the base in the Idli maker.
- The salt can be reused multiple times, hence you can store it.
Hi Sonia,
Thanks for this recipe. Can I replace sugar with dates powder? Will it affect the outcome of cookies? I’m thinking to make cookies for my baby.
I haven’t experimented the recipe with date powder so that will be difficult for me to suggest the amount. But in case you have even baked with it, feel free to experiment. The difference will be in crunchiness of the cookies and the colour.
Happy Baking
Sonia
Hi,your recipe notes gives clear cut instructions. Tnq. Keep it up
I tried wheat cookies recipe…it really works
Cookies are very yummy …
Thanku mam for d great recipe
yummy cookies,
Thanks a lot Sonia Ma’am
Could I use Amul butter (that yellow pack 📦 ) for making cookies instead of ghee?
You can use but that can make your cookies salty.
My cookies turned out to be super hard, any specific reason. I skipped baking powder.
Mansi,
Every ingredient in a recipe has a role. When you change the recipe, results will differ too.
Happy Baking
Sonia
What can I replace baking powder with. I don’t want to use baking powder as making it for my kid. I know changing ingredients will alter the results but is there anyway I can do away with baking powder?
Hi Deepali,
Skip adding baking powder and add little extra butter. Roll the cookies into thin disc and bake at lower temperature.
Happy Baking!
Sonia
Hi,
Should we remove the whistle from the Idly Cooker before Baking?
Thanks
Hi
My idli makers doesn’t have whistle option but in case your cooker has, then remove it.
Happy Baking
I tried but I have not added baking powder as much making it for my kid but its either being too hard or soft
Gayathri,
Any change in the ingredients will change the outcome.
Sonia
I tried this recipe. But my cookies not get hard even after 45 min. In pressure cooker
Leni, hope you didn’t knead the dough much and dough was firm.
Hi Sonia,
Can you please tell me how to bake these cookies using a pressure cooker. This is an amazing recipe. I like to taste it.
Hi,
The way we bake cake in pressure cooker, similarly you can bake these cookies.
Happy Baking
Sonia
Hello… Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. Can I use sand instead of salt in the base of the cooker?
Dhara,
Using salt/sand has a purpose. While baking on gas generally we keep opening the lid to check if its baked or not. When we do so, it drops the temperature inside the vessel. But if you are using salt/sand, it helps to maintain the temperature.
Happy Baking!
Dear Ma’am With the salt while preheating the idli maker do we have to add water or heat dry ?
If you will add water with salt then it will be a solution that will create steam on heating. For baking, we need salt only.
Happy Baking
Sonia
Hello Mam, tried these cookies. They arey awesome in taste and with right amount of sweetness as everyone likes in my house. Have shared the pic in group also. Thank you for this recipe.🙂
Hi Dhriti,
I am so happy to know you liked the recipe and it worked well for you. Thank you for sharing your feedback.
Happy Baking
Sonia
Hi
In this recipe you used ghee…is this room temperature or melted?
Please explain me.
Thanks
Hi Asha,
The clarified butter (ghee) should be at room temperature.
Happy Baking
I tried it and came out awesome.
Thanks Sonia !!
Thanks, Alka for your feedback.
Happy Baking.
Hello,
Is it a regular idly maker without whistle or gasket ? Is aluminium idly maker ok for baking ?
Yes Sandhya, its a regular idli maker. You can use any idli maker that is available at your place.
Hi sonali
What should be temp if I bake it in convection?
Also can I skip tutti fruti?
Do oven and convection behaves differently at same temp?if yes, then how. Please guide.
Thanx a ton for all those lovely recipes.
Asiyah,
Bake these cookies at 160 °C for 15-18 minutes in convection MW. You can skip adding tutti frutti.
Happy Baking
Sonia
Can u tell cup measurements instead of weight
Hello Krupa,
Please use the conversion table at https://anybodycanbake.com/conversion-table/
Regards
Sonia
Can you please let me know how much salt we need to add in the idli maker?
Hello Bala,
I have used full 1 kg of regular cooking salt.
Regards
Sonia
Hello ma’am I prepd it in steel plate but so prepd nhi hua .is it compulsory to bake it in aluminum plate?
Dear Kanupriya,
Steel and Aluminium plate should not impact your cookies, if you ware making them on Gas.
Sonia
Can we use butter….. cause *my bro don’t like ghee
Yes Malin,
Please go ahead and use butter. Try to use unsalted butter. For Reference, check the recipe link: https://anybodycanbake.com/recipe/make-tutti-frutti-cookies/
Should we consume this on d same day? What s the shelf life?
Hello,
The shelf life of these cookies is about a week to 10 days in an air tight container.
Hope this helps.
Sonia
Hi Sonia if we make these cookies in oven than we have to use baking soda or powder?
Hi Amishi,
You may use 1/2 tsp baking powder.
Hope this helps.
– Sonia