Here’s my favorite part of the recipe, you can bake this eggless and edible cookie dough and make excellent cookies! All of the variations we shared above bake nicely.

Spread flour onto a baking sheet and bake in a 350-degree Fahrenheit oven for 10 minutes.

When it reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit throughout, use it in the edible cookie dough recipe.

Microwave it for a couple of minutes in a microwave-safe dish.

The good news is that heat treating flour at home is easy! You can do this two ways: We’re hoping more flour brands do this in the future, but for now, we did see that Page House sells heat-treated all-purpose wheat flour (search for it online). You might also find heat treated flour for sale online.

To be safe, in this recipe, we treat the flour so that it reaches a minimum of 165 degrees Fahrenheit. (No matter what recipe you follow, it’s always a good idea to check flour recalls.) Since we are not flour safety experts, here’s what the US Department of Health and Human Services has to say about it. Research is still being done surrounding the safety of raw flour. In this recipe, we remove the eggs completely and heat treat the flour so that it is safer. Normally, the answer to this is no due to a small chance of contaminated flour and/or eggs, but thanks to our smart edible cookie dough recipe you can enjoy it without safety issues.īased on our research, here’s what we have learned: There are two culprits that make regular raw cookie dough unsafe to eat: unpasteurized eggs and raw flour. If you do not have it on hand, you can leave it out for more of a cinnamon sugar cookie dough. Cream of tartar tastes sour and is a common ingredient in snickerdoodle cookies. Then sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the top when serving. Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough - Add a bit of cream of tartar and ground cinnamon to the basic dough.For oatmeal raisin cookie dough, mix in raisins. Oatmeal Cookie Dough - Swap a bit of the flour called for in the basic recipe with old-fashioned rolled oats and add ground cinnamon.Peanut Butter Cookie Dough - Swap a bit of the butter called for in the basic recipe with peanut butter and add crushed peanuts.Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - Add unsweetened cocoa powder and chocolate chips to the basic recipe.Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - This takes the basic dough from above and adds chocolate chips.Here are five delicious edible cookie dough flavors. Once you have the basic recipe down, you can play around to make different variations. (We realize not everyone wants to buy a whole jar of molasses for 1/2 teaspoon!) That said, we use molasses a lot on Inspired Taste so if you plan to stick around and make a few of our other recipes like our Guilt-Free Healthy Banana Bread, these Ginger Cookies, and our Barbecue Sauce. Since it’s such a small amount, we made it optional. It’s a small amount, but wow does it make the cookie dough delicious. A tiny bit of molasses makes the dough extra tasty and rich. Secret Ingredient: The basic ingredient list above makes a delicious edible dough, but we love adding one more ingredient for flavor. If you are concerned about this, you can buy alcohol-free vanilla. Vanilla Extract - We use pure vanilla extract in our recipe, which does have alcohol content.For a vegan version, you can use non-dairy milk.

We typically add a tablespoon or two to the dough. Milk, cream or half-and-half - Since we leave eggs out of the recipe, the dough needs a bit of extra liquid to achieve the best texture.Keep in mind, though, that brown sugar will add the most flavor. Sugar - We love the combination of granulated (white) and brown sugar.If you don’t have it on hand, you can leave baking soda out. It also adds flavor and makes it taste more like regular cookie dough. Baking soda - Even though this cookie dough can be enjoyed raw (unbaked), by adding baking soda, it makes sure that you can bake the dough.For vegan cookie dough, use non-dairy butter or try coconut oil. You can use salted butter and leave out the salt added later on in the recipe. Unsalted Butter - The butter adds flavor and moisture to the cookie dough.Heat treating flour is easy to do, we’ve shared how below. For safety reasons, use heat-treated flour in the recipe. Flour - We use all-purpose flour, but a gluten-free blend should also work.For the basic recipe, you will need the following ingredients: The texture won’t be as fluffy, but it will still taste great. If you don’t have a mixer, you can make the dough by hand. Then add in dry ingredients like flour and mix until a dough forms. Start by beating butter and sugar together until fluffy, light, and creamy.

Edible cookie dough recipe