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This quick and easy Edible Cookie Dough is a sweet and tasty treat that skips the egg and baking step but is completely safe to eat raw! Made with simple pantry ingredients, this recipe will cure your cookie craving, and in under 15 minutes, the indulgent dough is ready to consume.
Easy Homemade Edible Cookie Dough
How can you eat this Edible Cookie Dough when its cousin, the uncooked, raw, classic chocolate chip cookie batter, is a known hazard to your health?
This easy-to-make recipe is the simple solution that lets you safely sneak a spoonful of every batch, even without baking! How can this be? Because we make our cookie dough edible by eliminating the egg (we use milk in its place to give our dough the added moisture it needs) AND heat-treating the flour (Eggs and untreated flour have a high likelihood of containing contaminants like Salmonella and E. coli.).
I LOVE eating Edible Cookie Dough because it is deliciously sweet and tastes just like the real recipe. But because there is no risk of food-borne illness, you can eat it straight from the bowl without worry. It’s the best raw dough that’s eggless and made with flour that’s been heated and treated, with a rich buttery flavor that I like even better than the original cookie dough batter.
Why We Love This Edible Cookie Dough Recipe
- Quick and easy to make in under 15 minutes.
- Delicious raw dough that you can safely eat without any worry.
- Fun to make with kids and loved by the whole family.
- Eat it by the spoonful or use it as a dip for your favorite snacks.
- Because who doesn’t like to sneak a scoop of raw dough?
- A sweet treat to serve for family nights, birthday parties, or after dinner dessert.
Shopping List/Ingredients
- Unsalted butter (softened)
- Sugar
- Brown sugar
- Vanilla
- Milk
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Flour
- Chocolate chips
Substitutions and Additions
- Unlimited Uses: There are endless ways you can add this edible cookie dough into your favorite foods! Use it as a filling for cupcakes, bake it in brownies, use it as a frosting for cakes and cupcakes, add it as a layer for ice cream bars or cheesecake, mix it into ice cream, or enjoy it just plain by itself. You can also cover them in chocolate for cookie dough truffles, or even use it as a dip with your favorite snack foods.
- Mix Up The Mix-Ins: Replace the chocolate chips with sprinkles, Oreo crumbs, M&M, Reese’s Pieces, chopped Reese’s® cups, white chocolate chips, or crushed candy.
- Use different extracts: Instead of vanilla extract, feel free to try lemon, cake batter, or almond extract to completely shake up the flavors in this edible cookie dough.
- Serve With Sauces: Drizzle some caramel, chocolate, raspberry, or vanilla rum sauce on top of your cookie dough for an added indulgence.
Recommended Tools
- Baking pan
- Silicon baking mat or parchment paper
- Mixing bowl and measuring tools
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How to Make Edible Cookie Dough Recipe
This quick and easy Edible Cookie Dough is a sweet and tasty treat that skips the egg and baking step but is completely safe to eat! Made with simple pantry ingredients, this recipe will cure your cookie craving in under 15 minutes!
- Bake your flour by spreading it on a parchment lined baking pan and baking it at 350 degrees fahrenheit for 8-10 minutes. Cool.
PRO-TIP: In order to safely consume flour, it must be heat-treated to properly kill any chance of bacteria. Please do not skip this step.
- Mix butter, sugars, vanilla, and milk together in a large bowl.
Pro Tip: You may need to mash the butter with a fork or a spoon so it will blend.
- Add dry ingredients to the bowl and mix well.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Serve and enjoy your edible cookie dough!
Pro Tip: If the batter is sticky, place in the refrigerator for a few minutes before eating.
Tips
- Since this cookie dough does not contain any leavening ingredients, it is not recommended to bake into cookies.
- You can add a bit more flour if the dough is too soft or sticky, or add more milk if the dough is too stiff.
- To make this even faster, you can bake the flour ahead of time. Then when you are ready to enjoy your edible cookie dough, just combine the ingredients.
Storage
- To Store: Serve your cookie dough right away or store it in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to one week.
- To Freeze: You can freeze your cookie dough in an airtight container for up to 6 months.
Frequently Asked Questions
This edible cookie dough tastes great in ice cream! I recommend shaping the dough into a couple of small logs, freezing them for a few hours in parchment paper, and then cutting them into small rounds to easily add it to your ice cream.
Traditional raw cookie dough is not safe to eat. The raw egg and uncooked flour have a high likelihood of containing contaminants like Salmonella and E. coli. Our Edible Cookie Dough recipe does not contain any egg and we pre-treat the flour by baking it prior to mixing it into the dough, which makes it completely safe to consume.
Please don’t try to bake this cookie dough! With its lack of egg and leavening (baking soda/baking powder) the cookies will spread and be flat, and you won’t end with a soft and chewy cookie.
Edible cookie dough is made the same way as regular cookie dough. The only difference is that the flour is heat-treated to get rid of dangerous bacteria, and no egg is used in the edible cookie dough version. That’s what makes it safe to eat without baking first.
More Great No-Bake Recipes
- Ice Cream Sandwich Cake
- No Bake Oreo Dessert
- Funfetti Dip
- Eclair Cake
- No-Bake Cheesecake Bites
- Chocolate Lasagna Recipe
Edible Cookie Dough Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup 2 sticks unsalted butter (softened)
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ⅓ cup milk
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 ½ cups flour
- chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Place a silicon baking mat or parchment paper on a baking sheet.
- Spread your flour on the baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes (this will kill any bacteria and make the flour safe for consuming “raw”)
- Mix together the butter, sugars, vanilla and milk in a large bowl.
- You may need to mash the butter down with a fork or a spoon.
- Add in the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Stir in the chocolate chips (or any other toppings i.e. sprinkles, marshmallows, Oreo Cookies)
- If the batter is sticky, place in the refrigerator for a few minutes
- Serve and enjoy!
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Notes
- To Store: Serve your cookie dough right away or store it in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to one week.
- To Freeze: You can freeze your cookie dough in an airtight container for up to 6 months.
Nutrition
Nutrition Disclosure
Nutrition information is an estimate. Please utilize your own brand information to double check against our estimates.
POST UPDATED – Originally Posted August 4, 2018
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