Milk Cookies Without Condensed Milk

Milk cookies recipe using dry milk powder as the main ingredient makes a super easy, moist, soft and delicious sugar cookies even beginners learning to bake can make quickly and easily!

These cookies are made without using sweetened condensed milk and they are eggless and they make the perfect dessert cookies which you can enjoy with a cup of cold milk or coffee or tea.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword milk cookies, milk powder cookies, soft cookies

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

chilling time for dough 20

Total Time 40

Servings cookies

Calories 134kcal

Author PA

Ingredients

1.5 cups bleached all purpose flour may use unbleached all purpose flour too
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons dry milk powder
½ cup melted butter at room temperature
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

To make the cookie dough:

In a bowl, mix together the dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, salt and milk powder until all ingredients are evenly combined.
In another bowl, add the melted butter and sugar and beat the mixture well to combine. Also add the water and vanilla extract to the butter sugar mixture and stir in to mix well.
Add the wet ingredients mixture slowly to the dry flour mixture to get a crumbly mixture. Make sure its mixed well so all the ingredients are evenly combined.
Knead well with hands to form the cookie dough.
Transfer the bowl with cookie dough to the refrigerator and chill in the refrigerator for about 15 to 20 minutes (do not chill for more time as the dough may harden).
Once chilled for about 20 minutes, the dough is ready to be used to make the cookies.

To make milk cookies:

Preheat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit.
Prepare a large cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or foil or non slip baking mat.
Make small balls out of the dough (use your palms to make smooth balls) and then slightly press the balls to form the round cookie shape.
Place this shaped cookie dough in the baking sheet.
Similarly shape all round cookies out of the dough and place them all in the cookie sheet.
Leave enough space in between each cookie, as they will expand in size as they bake.
Place the cookie sheet in the preheated oven and bake for about 10 to 12 minutes for moist and soft cookies.
Once done, immediately transfer the cookie sheet from the hot oven, otherwise the cookies will turn hard due to overbaking.
Allow the cookies to completely cool down before transfer them to air tight containers or cookie jars or serve them once cooled enough along with tea or coffee as you like!

Notes

Keep in mind that the cookies will harden to the right consistency once they are cooled enough. They may appear too soft when you take them out of the oven, but they will be perfect once they are completely cooled.

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