Eggless Edible Cookie Dough Recipe

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This edible cookie dough is so good and totally safe to eat raw, straight from the bowl! The recipe is super easy to make. I eat it all on its own, but it’s amazing in ice cream.



Cookie dough makes me feel like a messy girl wearing pigtails, holding beaters, and showing a big grin – all over again! But, not every cookie dough is safe to eat.

The good news is that making it egg-free and totally safe to eat is incredibly easy. I love turning it into cookie dough frosting for cupcakes and cakes and eating it by the scoop, like I do with my peanut butter cookie dough.

Can You Eat Cookie Dough?

Yes, you can eat any raw cookie dough with eggs. That doesn’t mean that you should.

I’m not going to lie; I do it all of the time, but there is risk involved:

The raw eggs may contain salmonella – a bacteria that can make you quite sick. According to WebMD’s article on salmonella, you may notice a number of symptoms: headache

abdominal cramps

loss of appetite The FDA now warns that it’s not just raw eggs that we need to worry about. Some raw flour can contain E. coli. If you get E. coli, symptoms can begin one to ten days after exposure to the bacteria and include: stomach cramps

diarrhea

vomiting

fever

So, if you really want to get your cookie dough fix, I suggest you make this special edible cookie dough.

How to Make Edible Cookie Dough Using Your Favorite Recipe

You can make cookie dough with any cookie recipe that you love!

Remove any baking soda and baking powder from the recipe. Since you aren’t baking the cookie dough, you don’t need the leavening agents. Remove any eggs from the recipe to avoid salmonella. You can also use pasteurized eggs instead – These can be hard to find, but they are a wonderful risk-free way to eat raw eggs if you can buy them near you! Heat the flour in the microwave in 15 second increments until its temperature reaches 160 F/70 C to kill off any E. coli present. Alternatively, you can purchase a heat-treated all-purpose flour – you will most likely need to buy this online as I’ve never seen it in a store. Add milk a little bit at a time to replace the moisture from the eggs and to help the dough come together.

Because you aren’t going to be baking the dough, you don’t need to worry at all about getting proportions just right, sifting, or the order of incorporating ingredients into the dough. You just dump all the ingredients in a bowl, mix, and you’re done.

It’s completely edible, so taste as you go! You can add more milk or extra mix-ins until you get it just how you like it.

Don’t be afraid to mix with your hands. I find that the easiest way to get the mix-ins like chocolate chips fully incorporated into the dough is to use my hands.

Does It Need to Be Refrigerated?

Because it isn’t cooked and there is milk in the dough, it is safest to refrigerate it. You can leave it out on the counter and bring to room temperature before eating or eat straight from the fridge.

I would feel comfortable leaving it in the refrigerator for about one week.

Can You Bake It?

Because this recipe doesn’t have eggs and leavening agents, it is not meant to be baked.

What to Do With Cookie Dough

There are countless things to do with raw cookie dough: