edible cookie dough recipe

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If you're at all like me, you love eating the chocolate chip cookie dough more than you like eating the finished cookies. However, given the danger with consuming raw eggs, this is a risky proposition, and more than half the time I wind up with a horrible tummy ache from doing so (or worse).

So, I have been experimenting, and I present:

Safe-To-Eat Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

2 sticks butter, softened
2 1/4 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1c packed brown sugar
3/4c granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 c (8oz) unsweetened apple sauce
12 oz chocolate chips

Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl; set aside. In a separate medium bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla; beat until creamy. Add applesauce and beat until mixed. Gradually add flour mixture and beat until mixed. Add chocolate chips, stir until thoroughly dispersed.

Adjust ingredients to taste. You might think the baking soda wasn't necessary since they're not being baked, but it is needed for flavor! The added brown sugar, salt, and vanilla (compared to the recipe on package) is to compensate for the flavor profile of the applesauce.

Cover, refrigerate, and eat by the spoonful. DON'T JUDGE ME, YOU KNOW THAT'S THE MOST AWESOME PART ABOUT COOKIES.

(I have not tried to bake this, so I have no idea how it would work. It is purely an eat-raw thing in our household.)