Tuesday Dinners

Cookie Dough

The best part of making cookies, without the risk.

⏲️ Preparation Time
15 minutes

🍴 Makes
A bowl

Ingredients

  • 1 cup flour (+ 1/4 cup flour or 1 tablespoon cornstarch)
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter softened to room temperature
  • Vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoon milk
  • 1/2 – 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Heat treat your flour either in the oven or microwave (30 second intervals, stirring) until it reaches 160 degrees Fahrenheit
  2. Cream your sugar and butter together
  3. Add your remaining ingredients (except for the chocolate chips) and mix until combined
  4. Add in your desired amount of chocolate chips and stir until completely incorporated

Step by Step Directions

The first step to making this cookie dough edible (meaning that we won’t get sick from the raw flour – and the recipe doesn’t include eggs) is to heat treat it. The bacteria that’s dangerous in raw flour is E. coli, which means we need to raise the temperature of the flour to at least 160 degrees to be considered safe to eat.

This can be done in a couple of different ways. The easiest I found was to microwave the flour at 30 second intervals, stirring in between intervals for one and a half minutes.

Additionally, you can spread a thin layer out on a baking sheet and leave in the oven for 5 minutes at 400 degrees.

Note: I have never personally gotten sick from raw cookie dough (regular raw dough, no heat treatment and no eggs), but that doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be taken as a real concern. Always pay attention to the safety labels on any food product you consume.

Next, cream your butter and sugars together. That’s a fancy way of saying to mix the two ingredients together. Doing this will incorporate little pockets of air into the mixture which during normal baking would help the dough to rise, but here helps to give us our characteristic color.

Add in the rest of your ingredients (except the chocolate chips). Around here we measure the vanilla with our hearts so do what you want. The milk is added to help everything bind together (what the egg traditionally does). You’ll want to mix everything together until it’s uniform.

Lastly add the chocolate chips, or whatever else you want to mix in. Ratios are important here, but I’m not in your kitchen telling you what to do, so if you want more chocolate chips then go for it. You deserve it.

And that’s it. Ready to eat. Now, you may be thinking to yourself, why don’t I just bake this now? Feel free, but it’s likely not going to work because you don’t have anything to help the cookies rise (the baking soda in normal dough).

You have ready to eat cookie dough that should have killed any and all bacteria that was present.

Enjoy.

Variations

  • Add whatever ingredients you want other than/in addition to the chocolate chips
  • Make double chocolate cookies by substituting some of the flour for cocoa powder
  • Freeze/chill your cookie dough for easier handling/dividing

Unsolicited Feedback

  • ML: It was the danger that made it taste good.
  • LK: How will I be able to eat this until I get sick?
  • AN: Why not just make actual cookies?