How to Make Edible Cookie Dough – well covered by Erin

Mum says “YES, you can lick the dough“ once know How to make edible cookie dough. Here’s how to make delicious cookie dough that’s safe and made with our favorite cookie ingredients like butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and chocolate chips. Plus You will find five cookie dough flavor variations.

Cookie dough lovers, this recipe is for you!

My sister and I each taking one of the kitchen mixer beaters after whipping cookie dough was a childhood ritual.

This edible cookie dough recipe is the best direct cookie dough recipe that is safe to eat.

Plus, it can be customized for numerous flavors such as double chocolate and funfetti.

I’m no stranger to edible cookie doughs.

• The healthy Cookie Dough recipe is lightened up, made with peanut butter and naturally sweetened.
• Chickpea Cookie Dough is a healthy treat made with chickpeas, peanut butter, and oatmeal, and you really can’t taste the chickpeas, I promise.

Why can’t you eat raw cookie dough?

As you’ve probably heard, you shouldn’t eat traditional raw cookie dough. I know how unfunny that is.

But why?

• raw eggs. salmonella Bacteria are one of the most common causes of foodborne illness, according to the FDA, and they can contain raw eggs salmonella..
• raw flour. Did you know that not only the eggs can make you sick, but also the flour? Because the flour can be contaminated with E. coli bacteria (eww).

I tend to live on the edge and sneak a bite of dough every now and then, but that doesn’t mitigate the risk as even a tiny bit of bacteria can be enough to make you sick.

How to make edible cookie dough

If you are one of those people who bake cookies more for the dough than the cookie itself, or you have a craving for cookie dough and you want a way to enjoy it safely, You can make safe edible cookie dough!

Since we want cookie dough to be safe to eat, we need to address the two factors that make it unsafe: the raw eggs and the raw flour.

• raw eggs. this one is easy; we just leave them out! Since the cookies don’t need to be baked, the lack of eggs doesn’t negatively affect the recipe.
• raw flour. All we have to do is cook it first. The microwave makes it easy.

Cookie dough lovers, this recipe is for you!

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The ingredients

• Flour. Good old all-purpose flour is the basis for our edible cookie dough. You must use heat-treated flour to make this edible chocolate chip cookie dough.
• butter. Be careful with the cookie dough. The butter is at the heart of their flavor.
• Brown sugar. Light brown sugar adds a little more warmth to the sweetness than white granulated sugar.
• milk. Or heavy cream to thin the batter to a consistency just right for ladling.
• Vanilla. Pure vanilla extract is an essential ingredient for truly homemade-tasting baked goods (or, in this case, no baked goods!).
• baking powder. Although the cookies aren’t baked, the baking soda gives the dough a familiar cookie flavor.
• chocolate chips. I liked minis for this edible cookie dough because you can use small bites of dough, but you can also use chopped chocolate or regular chips. Dark chocolate is my favorite.

The directions

1. Cook the flour in the microwave.

2. Cream together the butter and sugar in a large bowl.

3. Stir in milk, vanilla, salt and baking soda.

4. Slowly add the flour while stirring.

5. Fold in the chocolate chips. ENJOY!

How to make different flavors of edible cookie dough

• Funfetti. Replace the brown sugar with white sugar and add sprinkles instead of chocolate chips.
• double chocolate. Replace half of the flour with unsweetened cocoa powder and add another tablespoon of milk.
• peanut butter. Add 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter. For double the peanut butter power, use peanut butter chips instead of chocolate chips.
• Oatmeal Raisins. Substitute oatmeal for half the flour and use raisins instead of chocolate chips.

storage tips

• To store. Store leftover edible cookie dough in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week (as if it would last that long).
• Freeze. Edible cookie dough can be frozen in an airtight, freezer-safe container for up to 3 months. Thaw overnight before enjoying.

What to serve with edible cookie dough

• golden milk. A biscuit calls for a glass of milk. This plus edible cookie dough would be the ultimate nightcap.
• oat milk ice cream. Top off your ice cream with your delicious edible cookie dough.
• Brownies. What goes better with dessert than more dessert? These one bowl brownies bring me to every party.

• mixing bowls. There’s a bowl for every mixing task with this collection of nesting glass mixing bowls.
• Electric blender. If you don’t have access to the famous stand mixer, a hand mixer will do!
• rubber spatula. Cookie dough and kitchen utensils. This set has every size.

Now that you know how to make edible cookie dough, what are you waiting for?

Helllllllo dough-licking goodness!