Things you can use instead of a mixer for cookies are a whisk or fork, silicone spatula or even a wooden spoon.
While a mixer is best for making cookies, you can still make great and perfect cookies without a mixer by instead using a sturdy wooden spoon or silicone spatula to mix the dough and use a whisk or a fork for mixing the wet ingredients.
Using a pastry cutter or even your clean hands also works great for cutting in solid butter or mixing in flour for your cookie dough.
The classic go to tool for mixing cookie dough without a mixer is a wooden spoon, which is strong enough to handle thick cookie dough without bending.
The silicone spatula is also perfect for scraping the sides of the bowl and easily folding the ingredients in together.
And the whisk or the fork is the perfect tool for beating the eggs for the cookie dough and pre-mixing of the dry ingredients, like salt, baking soda and flour in your cookie dough.
To make the best no mixer cookies, soften the butter or use melted butter and avoid over mixing.
The most important step when mixing cookie dough by hand without a mixer is to soften the butter first.
leave the butter out on the counter for 15 minutes to 30 minutes before baking or cut the butter into small cubes so that the butter will mix in smoothly with the sugar.
Although if you don't want to soften the butter, you can use cookie recipes that call for melted butter instead,.
It's also very easy to mix in the melted butter with a simple spoon and it will also yield incredibly soft and chewy cookies.
Mixing by hand also actually prevents the dough from being overworked, which also leads to tenderer and less tough cookies.
Cookies have been made for years without having a mixer, although a mixer makes easier work of the cookie dough, but you don't need a mixer to make perfect cookies.
My grandma always made cookies and mixed the dough by hand using these methods and they all turned out great.