This edible cookie dough has been made and enjoyed by hundreds of people. It’s a favorite late night treat, and a great safe to eat solution when that craving strikes! This is the perfect single bowl serving so you don’t have to share!
Reader Richard commented “I couldn’t wait and had to try this last night. It was so good! Tasted just like cookie dough should taste. This is going to be a fun, easy treat that me and my daughter can enjoy. Thank you!” ★★★★★
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When that cookie dough craving strikes – I have the perfect treat for you!
This eggless cookie dough is SO EASY to throw together. It only takes like 2 minutes to gather the ingredients and mix them up and then you’re ready to eat delicious, irresistible cookie dough (that is totally egg free and edible!)
I love this Easy Edible Cookie Dough Recipe for one
- Quick and Easy – This cookie dough can be made in just a couple of minutes, all in one bowl.
- Perfect Late Night Treat – Making up a a bowlful of this edible cookie dough for one is the perfect late night treat after a long day of work, or a long day with kids, or just because you’re craving it.
- The Real Deal – This delicious cookie dough tastes just like the cookie dough you remember eating straight from the bowl as a kid, but now its safe to eat so you can eat as much as you want.
- Customizable – Change up the mix ins to your cookie dough bowl for different flavors and textures, try peanut butter chips, sprinkles, chopped nuts, candy bar pieces, etc.
Eggless Cookie Dough ingredients
This is an overview of the ingredients needed to make edible chocolate chip cookie dough. Find the full recipe with the ingredient amounts below in the recipe card.
- UNSALTED butter (softened) – keeps the dough rich, held together and with that cookie dough flavor
- brown sugar and granulated sugar – these sweeten the cookie dough
- vanilla extract – adds a nice flavor
- whole milk – this replaces any eggs in the cookie dough, to add extra liquid. You can use your favorite dairy free milk as well.
- salt – adds a nice flavor to balance out the sweetness. If you are using salted butter SKIP the extra salt
- all purpose flour – heat treat your flour by zapping it in the microwave in 30 second increments (1 minute total), or cooking it in the oven to reduce any risks
- chocolate chips – I love using mini chocolate chips so they are more spread throughout the dough
How to make Edible Cookie Dough
- Cream together the butter and sugars. Add your butter, brown sugar, and sugar to a small bowl and mix them together for a couple minutes. Add in the vanilla extract and milk and stir until combined.
- Add in the dry ingredients. Add in the salt, and flour, and mix until you have a nice soft cookie dough. If the dough is too soft, or thin add a little more flour. If it’s too dry, add a dash more of milk.
- Add in the chocolate chips. Stir in the chocolate chips and enjoy the bowl right away, or stick it in the fridge for 10 minutes, then enjoy. You can also roll the dough into balls and eat those, or pop them in the fridge or freezer for whenever you need a bite of cookie dough.
Tips and Tricks:
- Heat treat the flour. Microwave your flour in 30 second increments, stirring after each, until hot throughout (it only takes about 1 minute in my experience), or bake extra and store it until needed at 350 F on a rimmed cookie sheet for about 5 minutes, until the flour reaches an internal temperature of 160 F. Let the flour cool for about 10 minutes before using in the cookie dough
- Extra Mix Ins – Make the cookie dough with whatever add ins you enjoy, try pretzels, white chocolate chips, sprinkles, Oreo cookie pieces, or whatever you might enjoy.
- Cookie dough Truffles – Use this cookie dough, and roll it into balls. Refrigerate them until hardened slightly and chilled, then melt chocolate until creamy and dip the balls into the chocolate. Let the chocolate set and enjoy.
More Cookie Dough Flavors
If you want to make other flavors of cookie dough, there are simple changes and additions you can mix in to the dough to make more flavors. Here are some of my favorites:
- Sugar Cookie Dough – Replace the brown sugar with granulated sugar. Only use granulated sugar in the recipe. Add white chocolate chips or sprinkles instead of chocolate chips.
- Double Chocolate Cookie Dough – remove 2 TBS of flour, and add 2 TBS of cocoa powder instead.
- Peanut Butter Cookie Dough – Add 2 TBS of peanut butter when creaming the butter and sugars. Add 1 extra TBS of granulated sugar. Try adding Reeses Pieces, Peanut Butter Chips, or chopped Peanut Butter Cups if desired.
If the way I’ve written up the notes for these changes is confusing, here’s the fully written out recipe here too.
Sugar Cookie Dough Recipe
- 2 TBS unsalted butter
- 3 TBS granulated sugar
- 1 TBS whole milk
- 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
- 6 TBS all purpose flour
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 TBS sprinkles
Double Chocolate Cookie Dough Recipe
- 2 TBS unsalted butter
- 2 TBS brown sugar
- 1 TBS granulated sugar
- 1 TBS whole milk
- 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 TBS all purpose flour
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 TBS cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Recipe
- 2 TBS unsalted butter
- 2 TBS peanut butter
- 2 TBS brown sugar
- 2 TBS granulated sugar
- 1 TBS whole milk
- 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
- 6 TBS all purpose flour
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup mix ins (chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, etc)
Storage Instructions:
The eggless cookie dough should stay good in the fridge for about 1 week in an airtight container. Or it can be stored in the freezer for 3 to 6 months.
How to make a Bigger Batch of Cookie Dough?
If you want a bigger batch of cookie dough, because you have more people to share with, want a bigger bowlful, or want to store some in the fridge or freezer for longer, here are the amounts you’ll want to use:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 stick)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour (heat treated)
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Edible Cookie Dough Recipe FAQs
No, you cannot bake this cookie dough. It is missing eggs, and leavening agents which are key ingredients to allow the cookie to rise and lift when baked. You will end up with a hard cookie, not a soft and chewy cookie.
Yes, this is a great recipe to add to store bought or homemade ice cream to turn it into cookie dough ice cream. I like to flatten the dough out on parchment paper, and chill it in the freezer for a few hours. Then I cut it into small pieces and mix them into the ice cream as desired.
Yes, you can use all granulated sugar if needed, but you’ll lose a bit of the classic chocolate chip cookie dough and your batter will taste more like sugar cookie dough. If you’re fine with that – then go for it!
Yes, you can make the dough without an electric mixer. I usually mix it with a fork or spoon since its such a small batch recipe, it doesn’t take much arm strength to mix.
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Eggless Cookie Dough
Ingredients
- 6 TBS all purpose flour
- 2 TBS UNSALTED butter softened
- 2 TBS brown sugar
- 1 TBS granulated sugar
- 1 TBS whole milk
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- **Microwave your flour in 15 second intervals, (30 seconds to 1 minute total) until it reaches an internal temperature of 160 degrees, to eliminate any risk of e. coli or salmonella. Set it aside to cool for a few minutes.
- In a small bowl, cream together your butter and your sugars until mixed.
- Add in the milk and vanilla and stir to combine.
- Add in the flour and salt and mix until all combined. (Add a little more flour if mixture is too wet).
- Dump in the chocolate chips and stir them into the cookie dough.
For Sugar Cookie Dough:
- Replace the brown sugar with additional granulated sugar. Make the rest of the recipe the same.
For Double Chocolate Cookie Dough:
- Remove 2 TBS of the flour with 2 TBS of cocoa powder. Mix the cocoa powder into the dough when adding the flour. Make the rest of the recipe the same.
For Peanut Butter Cookie Dough:
- Add 2 TBS of peanut butter to the butter when creaming it with the sugars. Add 1 extra TBS of granulated sugar. Make the rest of the recipe the same.
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Notes
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Nutrition
Recipe Originally Posted on April 04, 2014. The Photos and text were updated for clarity on April 12, 2024.
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Leaf cruz says
This is incredible!! I was craving a sweet snack and found this! I made it once and it was delicious, so I made it again! I plain on making it another time it’s amazing.
Lilly says
I had a really hard practice and I made this, and it was soooo good, definitely helped improve my mood
Jessica B.L. says
I am only 5 years old (and a half) and I longed for a salmonella-free cookie dough recipe. During my inquiries I found only a lack of quality, a turmoil-inducing variety inaccurate formulas, unfathomable to me as the concept of cookie dough itself should be fairly simple.
O joy, as I stumbled upon this fine article, brimming with joy as I noticed the option to show the recipe in metric. The concept of cups is lost on me as the mass and volume of ingredients greatly vary, but I digress.
I must thank you for your thorough research and lovely prose.
My only tip I could give, and excuse my short experience with this as I am only 5, but you do have a good amount of chromatic aberration in your photos, perhaps you could upgrade your photography tools, but that is meaningless in the scope of this brilliant recipe, take it more as advice for your future writings.
Take care and I wish you well, yours truly
shay says
Wow ur vocabulary is so good for a 5 (and a half) year old!!
Aimee says
That’s what I thought when I read it too 😜😜
Julia says
This cookie dough is so delicious! Thank you so much for this recipe. It hit the spot when I needed something sweet!
Jason says
I made this and it was delicious. Thank you for this recipe!
Evie Andrus says
So good! I swapped the chocolate chips for rolled oats and it was amazing! I have tried several cookie dough recipes and this one is probably my fave texture wise! Thank you!
Aimee says
Mmm I love a good oatmeal cookie dough! That sounds delicious! So glad to hear ❤️🤤
Abby hall says
Delicious!!!!!
Lilly says
Wow! That is all I can say to this recipe! I am 13 and love to bake, but sometimes never feel like baking a bunch of cookie dough. This recipe is perfect if you are craving some cookie dough, it tastes like the real thing to! I love it!
Aimee says
Yay! I’m so glad!
Richard Tunner says
I couldn’t wait and had to try this last night. It was so good! Tasted just like cookie dough should taste. This is going to be a fun, easy treat that me and my daughter can enjoy. Thank you!
Dristen says
I’m an 11-year-old, but I am used to baking big batches of treats. I bake two or three-layer cakes just for fun. Today I didn’t really feel like it. So I found this recipe and tried it. It turned out amazing, and the person who made this recipe should get an award.
Aimee says
Thank you so much. You just made my morning <3
charlie says
would it be fine without beaters and just using a spoon to mix ??
Aimee says
I usually just mix it with a fork actually, you don’t need a mixer for it!
Audrey Reich says
WEll i just need to know if it will stillbe gopd with out milk….
Aimee says
It needs some sort of liquid to give the cookie dough the right consistency, since there are no eggs. If you don’t want to use regular cows milk, you could use any other types of milk, like almond milk, or soy milk. You could try water, though I think it will lose a little richness
Dee Anne says
These are great! Thank you!
rose says
made this recipe today and I love it!
Thanks for this recipe!!!
Ellen says
Oh, we are so glad and you are always welcome.
Linds says
OMG! so good! 10/10. Very easy to throw together
Autumn says
I am only 13 and i have tried sooo many recipes but i couldn’t find any that tasted like real cookie dough thx soooooo much your a life saver.
Ellen says
Autumn, We are so happy to hear from you. We love that you are young, 13 is a great age. So glad that you found a cookie dough recipe that works for you. Hopefully you will find more recipes you want to try on our site. We have lots of other cookie dough recipes you might try. Ellen
Callie says
It is so yummy! highly recommend!!
Katie says
I am 12 years old and this recipe is really easy to use. I reccomend using this recipe for littler ones since it doesn’t need any dangerous cooking tools. And it is absolutely delicious!
Aimee says
That makes me so happy to hear!
example says
so tasty and tastes just like real raw cookie dough defiantly going to take some self control not to make it every day!
Alex Lang says
Delish and super easy. Really great with semi-sweet to give it that extra flavor!!
Stella says
I’ve used this recipe twice and both times it has been so tasty. 5 stars!
Aimee says
Yay! Thank you so much ☺️
Katie says
I have made this recipe more times than I care to admit! It’s delicious and such a guilty pleasure. I came to make one of the other cookie doughs (the peanut butter or sugar cookie one you have recipes for) tonight but couldn’t bring myself to skip an opportunity to make the tried and true classic again! I added some dry old fashioned oats to it and it is fabulous with that added too! Thanks for an awesome treat for after the kids are in bed. 🙌🏻
Aimee says
This makes me so happy Katie! How much oats did you add? That sounds so yummy! Also the peanut butter version is definitely worth trying sometime 😉
Katie says
Probably about 2-3 tablespoons, but I didn’t measure. More oats is always better for me when it comes to chocolate chip cookie dough 😅
rachel chance says
This recipe was good but 743 kcals is 743,000 calories. This doesn’t make any sense. Also, is the little bowl of cookie dough really 743 calories, that just seems like a lot.
Aimee says
If you google it, the Calorie we actually refer to is actually kilocalories. One (1) kilocalorie is the same as one (1) Calorie (upper case C). But otherwise the calorie amount is generally correct, the exact ingredients you use will change it slightly.
Jessica B.L. says
Rachel how can you say that 743kcals is 743000 calories? I mean it is very, very basic knowledge that we count in kcal, and the fact you assertively say this article is wrong is mind blowing to me. Make sure you’re certain of something before trying to prove someone erroneous, especially if you’re wrong yourself, it makes you look stupid. I’m 5 and even I know this. And yes butter is mostly fat, it should be no surprise that this is 743 kcals with the amount of sugar on top.
Jess
Genevieve says
If you do a very simple google search 1 kcal is the same as 1 cal. If you have any common sense in general it’s easy to figure out kcal is referring to calories.
Tamsyn says
this is by far the best edible cookie dough I have ever made, even without chocolate chips!
Aimee says
Thank you, that makes me so happy to hear!
MPT says
I’ve seen several people comment that this recipe has no flavor???? I think you need to look at the quality of ingredients that you purchase for this recipe.
First time I made this I used some generic vanilla extract and butter and the result was good. Later I used Nielsen Massey Madagascar Vanilla (expensive but I found a sale at the Homegoods store!) and KerryGold Pure Irish Butter (Sam’s Club). The addition of these two brands was a game changer!!
Aimee says
Great suggestions! Thank you!