Clean Eating Cookie Dough Recipe | The Gracious Pantry (2024)

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How do you make cookie dough that is safe to eat raw? ›

It is best to steer clear of raw cookie dough due to the potential contamination of disease-causing bacteria in raw flour. If you love indulging in cookie dough, look for brands that state they are safe to eat raw. You can also make your own edible cookie dough at home with commercial heat-treated flour.

1 Minute Cookie Dough Greek Yogurt

Vanilla extract is one of those magical ingredients that can make almost anything taste like a baked good. Add it to plain Greek yogurt (with a little stevia, peanut flour, and sprinkle of chocolate chips) for a cookie-esque creation you could even eat for breakfast.

Simply spread a thin layer on a baking sheet and heat it in your oven at 300°F for about 10 minutes or until it reaches a temperature of 160°F. If that seems too intensive, you can also place the flour in a microwave safe bowl and microwave it in 30 second increments until the temperature reaches 160°F.

Pillsbury Ready to Bake Cookie Dough products are now safe to eat raw. It's the same cookie dough you've always loved, but now we have refined our process and ingredients so it's safe to eat the dough before baking. The dough will still bake up the same as our classic cookie dough.

Some companies make edible cookie dough and brownie batter that you can find in stores. These products are made with heat-treated flour and pasteurized eggs or no eggs. Read the label carefully to make sure the dough is meant to be eaten without baking or cooking.

We do not recommend baking our Bite-Sized Edible Cookie Dough [flavor/products]. It does not contain eggs or leavening agents, which are key ingredients in developing texture and lift in baked cookies. (If needed) Exposure to high oven temperatures will cause the product to liquefy and possibly burn.

“Safe to eat raw” seal

They're the same recipes fans have loved for years, but by refining processes and ingredients – heat-treated flour and pasteurized eggs – families can now enjoy before or after baking. Favorites, like Pillsbury's Ready to Bake!

Pillsbury Cookie Dough products are now safe to eat raw! It's the same cookie dough you've always loved, but now we've refined our process and ingredients so it's safe to eat the dough before baking.

While one cookie a day isn't going to completely derail your diet goals, it's often easy to eat more than one at a time, and soon enough, downing quite a few cookies throughout the day could lead to unwanted pounds.

Why do I like eating cookie dough? ›

“The appeal of eating raw cookie dough is all about the texture,” she said. “People love texture and variety, and cookie dough is the perfect mix of something that's soft and kind of creamy and sort of chewy.” She wonders, though, whether it also has something to do with nostalgia.

Although the risks are generally low, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises to resist the temptation of eating raw cookie dough to prevent illness. This year, 26 people fell ill due to a salmonella outbreak that left four hospitalized.

When & Why Do You Need to Heat Treat Flour? Raw flour can contain bacteria like e. coli or salmonella so it's important to always heat your flour to a temperature of 160F before eating. (This is what makes eating edible cookie dough safe!)

Flour — to kill any harmful bacteria present in the raw flour, you'll need to heat treat it before making this recipe. It's really easy, and makes the dough safe to eat, so please don't skip this step!

Milk: In place of eggs, milk helps to make the cookie dough "chewy."

The milk replaces the eggs in this edible cookie dough recipe. I recommend starting by using 3 tablespoons of milk. Then after all the ingredients have been mixed together (except for the chocolate chips) add more milk to reach your desired consistency.

Start with the eggs in cold water, bring the temperature up to 140°, and hold them at that temperature for three minutes if they're large eggs, five minutes if jumbo. Put them in a bowl of cold water to stop the cooking. They are now safe to use raw in things like cookie dough.

Yes—look for a dough that's labeled “safe to eat raw.” To make store-bought cookie dough safe, companies heat-treat the flour and pasteurize the eggs, removing any bacteria. But for all the homemade cookie dough loyalists, there are other options.

Cookie dough you make yourself has eggs from the supermarket that could have salmonella (but actually it's very unlikely). It's raw eggs that are behind the warning not to eat raw cookie dough. I've read you can buy pasteurized eggs and then there's no problem with eating them raw. But I've never looked for them.