Eggless Edible Cookie Dough for One
on Feb 01, 2022
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Edible Cookie Dough for One is an eggless single-serving dessert that takes minutes to make. It’s a nostalgic and perfect treat made with heat-treated flour and no eggs.
Edible cookie dough can be used in a variety of delicious ways. Besides being able to eat it on its own, it can also be used in cookies, brownies, as a frosting or used in ice cream bars. It’s easy to make with just a few ingredients.
What is Edible Cookie Dough?
Edible cookie dough is just what it sounds like – unbaked cookie dough that’s safe and delicious to eat. While regular cookie dough contains ingredients that could potentially make you sick, edible cookie dough is 100% safe to eat raw!
What’s the Difference Between Cookie Dough and Edible Cookie Dough?
Most of the ingredients in edible cookie dough can also be found in regular cookie dough, but there are a few differences that make this version safe to eat. Notably, edible cookie dough is made without eggs and excludes rising agents like baking soda or baking powder. Lastly, before making your dough, you’ll be cooking the flour, which you wouldn’t need to do with regular cookie dough.
How to Make Eggless Cookie Dough Safe to Eat?
Eating regular cookie dough can cause you to get sick for a couple of reasons. Firstly, regular cookie dough contains raw eggs which can pose a salmonella risk. Additionally, cookie dough contains raw flour, which the CDC strongly advises against eating.
Edible cookie dough is made with no eggs, thus removing the salmonella risk. You’ll also be baking the flour beforehand, so you won’t be consuming potentially risky raw flour.
Ingredients You’ll Need and Substitutes
- All-Purpose Flour: Your preferred brand of regular, all-purpose flour is just fine to use for this recipe. If you like, you can also use a gluten-free alternative such as almond or oat flour.
- Unsalted Butter: We recommend using unsalted butter for this recipe. If you only have salted butter, be sure to reduce or eliminate additional salt from your dough.
- Brown Sugar: Though brown sugar provides the best taste and texture for your cookie dough, you can use white granulated sugar if that’s what you have on hand.
- Granulated Sugar: You’ll need a bit of granulated sugar for this recipe, but go ahead and use brown sugar or a sugar alternative if you prefer.
- Milk: Any dairy or non-dairy milk can be used in your cookie dough.
- Vanilla Extract: Pure vanilla extract is best, but you can use vanilla flavoring in a pinch.
- Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Salt: Omit or reduce the salt if you’re using a salted butter
How to Make Eggless Edible Cookie Dough for One
1. Heat treat the flour by spreading onto a microwave-safe plate and heating it in a microwave in 15-second intervals until the flour temperature reaches 160 F degrees.
2. Add butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and salt into a medium bowl and combine using an electric mixer until it looks pale and fluffy.
3. Stir in milk and vanilla extract.
4. Add flour and mix until combined
5. Add chocolate chips and mix using a spatula. Serve and enjoy!
Tips & Tricks
- Heat treat the flour so that it’s safe to eat: With baked cookies, the flour is cooked, which eliminates the risk of you getting sick. For raw cookie dough, be sure to heat the flour to ensure it’s safe to eat.
- Make sure the butter is softened before mixing: It’s nearly impossible to combine cold, hard butter with your other ingredients. Soften butter by leaving it out of the fridge overnight or giving it a quick zap in the microwave.
- This cookie dough will harden up when stored in the fridge. You’ll need to bring it to temperature before serving.
Cookie dough tastes best at room temperature. If you’ve stored it in the fridge, give it some time to warm up to room temperature before eating.
Variations
- Funfetti Sugar Cookie Dough: First, combine heat-treated flour with softened butter, brown and granulated sugar, vanilla and heavy cream. Then add in colorful sprinkles for edible Funfetti sugar cookie dough.
- Edible Cookie Dough without Flour: By substituting flour with oats, you can make flourless edible cookie dough that doesn’t require heat treatment. To make an oat-based flour, simply put oats into a blender or food processor.
- Edible Oatmeal Cookie Dough for One: You can combine homemade oat flour (just blend regular oats in a blender or food processor) and some whole oats with softened butter, brown and granulated sugars, milk, and vanilla. Raisins are optional.
How to Store Eggless Edible Cookie Dough?
Edible cookie dough should be stored in the fridge and consumed within 5 days. For longer-term storage, edible cookie dough will last up to 6 weeks in the freezer.
Can I Freeze Eggless Edible Cookie Dough?
If you’ve made a bit too much cookie dough, don’t worry. Edible eggless cookie dough can be frozen. You can scoop the dough into balls and store them in an airtight container for up to 6 weeks.
How Long Does Edible Cookie Dough Last?
Edible cookie dough lasts five days in the fridge and up to six weeks in the freezer.
Can I Bake this Edible Cookie Dough?
No. Because edible cookie dough omits ingredients like eggs, baking powder and baking soda, they will not do well in the oven.
How to Make Edible Cookie Dough for Two?
If you want to make enough cookie dough to share with someone else, just double the recipe below. Enjoy!
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Eggless Edible Cookie Dough for One Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar, packed
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon milk, add more as needed
- 1/8 vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Heat Treat the Flour: Spread the flour out on a microwave-safe plate. Heat it in 15-second intervals until the flour temperature reaches 160 F degree (74 C). About 1 minute in total.
- In a medium mixing bowl, add butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and salt. Use an electric hand mixer to whip together until pale and fluffy for about 3 minutes.
- Stir in milk and vanilla extract.
- Add flour and mix until combined. Add more milk if needed.
- Add chocolate chips and mix using a spatula. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
- You can store the edible cookie dough in the refrigerator. To prevent it from hardening up once chilled, let it rest at room temperature to soften.
Nutrition information provided is an estimate only and will vary based on ingredient brands and cooking methods used.
