edible cookie dough recipe

[synecdochic]

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.)

Comments

[viklikesfic]

Yiiiis applesauce. I make my banana bread in a vegan applesaucey way so that I can consume a spoon of batter while making it. Heh.

[leek]

This is such a good idea, oh my goodness! Like Eddie Izzard says of cakes, it is very, very good before you put it in the oven, and then it comes out less good. ♥

[stealth_noodle]

Ooh, thanks! I have been down the raw-egg-stomachache road many times myself, but no more!

[darkemeralds]

What a great idea. I'm guessing that something along this line is what goes into Ben and Jerry's cookie dough ice cream!

My guess about baking is that without the egg, they'd spread more on the baking sheet--I think egg proteins help give structure to the dough--but who cares? Safe Dough!

[killing_rose]

This is how I bake(d) cookie recipes, and it never seemed to make a big difference in the cookie. A bit more moist, depending upon whether it was the eggs or the butter you'd used the applesauce to replace. And yes, very edible raw and therefore awesome.

(The moment my sister and I realized how to do this at 17 was the best moment ever in our house. We had been down raw egg road one too many times as was. Dad was very, very confused.)

[cofax7]

If you don't intend to bake these, I suspect you could leave out the baking soda, as well.

[ex_fathomless325]

Have I told you, lately, that I love you? XD
~C

[libitina]

Ah hah hah! I adore you right now. Especially that it is worth typing in agony to share the joy of raw cookie dough. And you are absolutely right that it is the best part of the cookie.

Mmmm! I wonder if this would work for muffin dough, too?

[psyche29]

OMG, ILU FOR THIS. ♥♥♥

I am sending this to my sister the minute I'm finished making and eating it once I get home...

[minxy]

I totally freeze cookie dough all the time and eat it *nom nom nom*

[highlander_ii]

That is so made of awesome! *steals recipe for laters* XD

[sobelle]

Oh yummy!! thanks for being the test kitchen!!!

[willidan]

I use a similar recipe to make chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. Except I don't add apple sauce. But I have been known to skip the ice cream part and eat the cookie dough straight from the bowl.

[gwaihiril]

This is fabulous! I'm sending it to my roommate, since she often just eats cookie dough and definitely considers it better before it's baked into cookies. (I'm often in agreement with her, it's just easier to share cookies with all our housemates than a bowl of dough.)

[azurelunatic]

OMG THIS SOUNDS LIKE A PROJECT.

[pixel]

Made some this afternoon, the consensus in the house is: OMNOMNOM

[ek_johnston]

How much is a stick of butter?

(Ours are two cups, and four cups of butter seems like a...lot.)

[majoline]

Thank you so very much for sharing :)

[ello]

I will definitely try this, because making cookies is just an excuse for cookie dough, but I was wondering if just subbing in pasteurized eggs for regular eggs would do the trick. Is it mainly worrying about sam'n'ella dropping in, or do the raw eggs wreak havoc on the digestive system?