Egg-Free Chocolate Cookies in Mumbai, the Amsterdam Way
I have wanted to visit Van Stapele Koekmakerij for years. It's a tiny cookie shop in Amsterdam that makes exactly one thing: a dark chocolate butter cookie stuffed with white chocolate ganache. No menu, no variations, just a queue out the door for one cookie done right. In June this year I finally went. I stood in that queue, ate the cookie standing on the street outside, and knew I wanted to bring my own version of it back to Mumbai.
This July, I launched that version: our Amsterdam Cookie. Dark chocolate butter cookie, stuffed with white chocolate ganache, with milk chocolate chips folded into the dough. It's egg-free, which was the harder part of the project, because egg is usually what holds a butter cookie together and gives it that slight chew at the edge. I spent a few weeks in the kitchen adjusting the binding (more on that below) until the texture held without it.
Why egg-free, and why it still tastes like a "real" cookie
A lot of egg-free baking in India still gets treated as a substitution you apologise for, something you offer because a customer asked, not because it's good on its own terms. That's not how I approach it at Raisson D'être. Egg-free is one of our standard production lines, alongside gluten-free, sugar-free and vegan, and I bake every one of those to taste indulgent first. If a gluten-free customer or an egg-free customer is ordering a "diet" version of a cookie, I've failed at the brief.
For this cookie specifically, the dough relies on a higher ratio of butter and a small amount of cornstarch to get the structure that egg would normally provide. The result is a cookie that's slightly fudgier in the centre than a standard chocolate chip cookie. That contrast in texture is actually closer to the original Van Stapele cookie than I expected when I started testing.
How is our Amsterdam chocolate cookie different from our Ben's-inspired line
If you've ordered our regular cookies before, you'll know they're inspired by Ben's Cookies, the bakery that started in Oxford, where I studied. Those are a lighter, more classic chocolate chip cookie. The Amsterdam Cookie is a different animal entirely: seriously chocolatey, dark chocolate base, white chocolate ganache centre, and milk chocolate chips for a third layer of chocolate on top of that. If you like your dessert to read as "dessert," not a snack, this is the one.
Instant same-day delivery on our Amsterdam chocolate cookies drop too
Like the rest of our tiffin cakes, slices and loaves, the Amsterdam Cookie ships in 1 hour in Mumbai. If you're in Mumbai and you've had a craving hit mid-afternoon, this isn't a "order three days ahead" situation.
How to order our Amsterdam chocolate cookies in Mumbai
The Amsterdam Cookie is live on our website now: raissondetre.in/products/amsterdam-cookies. Will also available on Swiggy from July 2nd, and if you'd rather just message us directly, our WhatsApp line is open for same-day orders too.