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? ›

Conclusion. Ready-to-eat cookie dough is a delicious snack or dessert that can be enjoyed, but only when made safely, which would include using commercially processed heat-treated flour, ready-to-eat ingredients and using good sanitary practices when making the cookie dough.

Because cave people ate cookie dough, right? 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.

There is a potential risk of foodborne illness from the consumption of raw flour. Follow Step 1 to heat-treat your flour so it is safe to use. If you do not have a microwave, spread flour out on a baking sheet and toast in an oven at 350 degrees F for 5 to 6 minutes.

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.

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.

Cookie dough is an uncooked blend of cookie ingredients. While cookie dough is normally intended to be baked into individual cookies before eating, edible cookie dough is made to be eaten as is, and usually is made without eggs to make it safer for human consumption.

The CDC regularly warns people to stop eating raw dough but acknowledges it's a tough sell. “When making cookies, brownies, cakes, or bread, you might be tempted to taste a bite before it's fully baked,” the CDC says. “But you can get sick after eating or tasting raw (unbaked) dough or batter.”

Is it OK to eat a cookie everyday? ›

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.

The bottom line. Raw cookie dough is not safe to eat because it contains uncooked eggs and flour, which can cause food poisoning if they are contaminated with harmful bacteria. Pregnant women, children, older adults, and people with compromised immune systems should not eat raw cookie dough because of these risks.

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!

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.

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.

With refrigerated cookie dough from Pillsbury, you can have warm, just-baked cookies in minutes! 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.

Of course, raw flour doesn't exactly look raw, like meat or eggs, but it still comes with its own set of dangers. The best way to eliminate these dangers is to microwave your raw flour on its own for short intervals — around one minute at a time — until it reaches a temperature that will kill bacteria.