Hello cookie dough! I’ve gotta say, my favourite thing about making chocolate chip cookies is sneaking a few bites of the raw cookie dough. I know, I know. You aren’t supposed to eat raw cookie dough, but I just can’t help myself! Which is why this safe-to-eat, eggless cookie dough recipe is AMAZING! All the deliciousness of cookie dough, but no eggs, so it’s completely safe to eat by the spoonful! Don’t go trying to bake it, because you definitely won’t get proper cookies from this recipe, but if you want to make cookie dough ice cream, cookie dough brownies or just enjoy spoonfuls of decadent cookie dough (I’d never do that), then you have to try this!
I love cookie dough ice cream, and, well, cookie dough in general, but there are dozens of things you can make with raw cookie dough. Just check out this post from Life Love and Sugar with 60 Cookie Dough recipes if you need some inspiration. Yep, SIXTY cookie dough recipes. Is your mouth watering yet? (Mine is).
Eggless Cookie Dough Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3/4 cup Packed brown sugar
- 1 cup Flour
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 Tablespoon of water until proper consistency
Instructions
- Leave the butter on the counter to soften, or soften it in the microwave if you need to.
- Cream together the butter and brown sugar.
- Add the salt and vanilla and mix well.
- Add the flour and mix until it forms a dough consistency.
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Slowly add 1 Tablespoon of water to the cookie dough, mixing as you go until it gets to be the right consistency. Add more or less water as needed.
Make sure your butter is at room temperature. If you are impatient like me, just microwave it on super low power until it softens up.
Add the brown sugar to the softened butter.
As long as the butter is soft enough, it’s no problem to cream the butter and brown sugar together by hand. But if you have a mixer you’d prefer to use, by all means, feel free to save your arms the trouble!
Add the flour, salt and vanilla. I added the salt and vanilla to the butter/sugar mixture just because it was easier for me to get them mixed together, but it doesn’t matter if you add the three ingredients all at once.
Keep mixing it together until it turns into a nice dough-like consistency.
Next, add the chocolate chips. Mmmmm…. chocolate chips…
This next part is important. Since you aren’t adding any eggs, you have to add some water to the mixture or it’s going to be too dry. (And we can’t have that!) You may find you need more or less water, but I used about 1 Tablespoon and it worked beautifully.
Mmmmm… mix it all together and look at this! Beautiful, safe-to-eat, eggless cookie dough! Yum!
Now you can eat as much cookie dough as you want and not worry about the pesky eggs causing any problems for you!
You can decide what kind of chocolate chips you want to use. I love regular semi-sweet chips, so that’s what I put into this batch. It was delicious. Seriously. I almost ate the entire bowl.
Once you are done indulging, just put it into some kind of tupperware container and store it in the fridge. Since there are no eggs in it to make it go bad, it will last for at least five days. Possibly longer, but it might start to taste like fridge after that, and you definitely don’t want that.
You can also store it in the freezer for up to three months. Try separating the dough into smaller portions and put them into zip lock bags in the freezer. That way, when you want to top your ice cream with some cookie dough, you’ll have a convenient portion ready to go.
Make this recipe for edible, safe-to-eat cookie dough the next time you are craving some soft, gooey, cookie dough, but you don’t want to risk eating raw eggs. It goes together in minutes, keeps in the fridge or freezer for ages and makes a delicious treat! Just remember not to bake it, because while the uncooked recipe is delicious, it’s lacking some important baking ingredients. Enjoy!
Beth Ann says
GET IN MY BELLY!! This looks delicious!
Nikki Frank-Hamilton says
Pinning this, brilliant! We love cookie dough, in fact better than the cookies! Definitely making this soon! Thanks!
jody says
I’m glad I found you on Wake Up Wednesday. These look so good! I”m going to make them this week-end. I think my family will love them! Pinned (Momndaughtersavings) Following on Pinterest (Jody53)
Coconutcraze says
This looks so gorgeous! I can’t believe there are so many recipes to use raw cookie dough! I am tempted to make some immediately!
Mrs.AOK says
I’m such a cookie monster and your pictures of your cookie dough are making me want to chomp my screen, nom nom nom COOKIE!
Thanks for sharing with us at Mommy Monday!
XOXO
The Chunky Chef . says
OH wow, I need this, right away!! Thanks for sharing with Friday Favorites, we love having you join us 🙂
All that's Jas says
Who needs cookies when you can eat cookie dough?! Great recipe, thanks for sharing at Thursday Favorite Things.
Kim Daniels Lewis says
Okay, I’m drooling right now! Looks so good. Pinned and tweeted. I hope to see you on Monday at 7, we can’t wait to party with you! Lou Lou Girls
Alesha @ Full Time Mama says
I don’t think I EVER made chocolate chip cookies until I got married. Growing up with just my mom (a chocoholic and all around sweets lover) we’d regularly make cookie dough to eat, but never the cookies. My husband was in shock when we were married and I made cookie dough to eat. He insisted I make cookies and stop wasting the dough. Wasting?! Never! LOL! Now I make cookies but always save a bowl of dough for myself. 🙂 I love this recipe and am definitely going to make it for myself when I make the cookies for the family. Thank you so much for sharing with us at Delicious Dish Tuesday!! Please join us again this week with another great recipe!
Debbie @ One Little Project says
haha I COMPLETELY agree! I would much rather eat raw cookie dough than cookies! I think it’s wasting the dough when you turn it into cookies!! 🙂
Kyla @ House Of Hipsters . com says
I’m always so worried about this with my kids! Thanks for sharing. Will definitely be trying your recipe.