Edible Double Chocolate Cookie Dough (2024)

FAQs

Is edible cookie dough actually edible? ›

It's made without eggs and no raw flour, so it's completely safe to eat.

Not all cookie dough is safe to eat before baking it. Both the flour and the egg ingredients should be cooked for food safety reasons. What makes Pillsbury's refrigerated cookie and brownie doughs ready to eat raw? We use heat treated flour and pasteurized eggs so you can now safely enjoy our cookie dough baked or raw.

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.

Some may say that raw cookie dough is better than the baked cookie itself. However, raw cookie dough eaters are taking a risk with foodborne illness. Most know that eating cookie dough with raw eggs runs the risk of contracting Salmonella.

Pillsbury™ 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.

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

Follow the expiration date on the package, but if there isn't one, you can add one generous week to the “best-by” date. Homemade dough, when stored in an airtight container, is best to use within 3-5 days, but may be good up to one week.

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.

Cookie dough contains raw eggs

Eggs are commonly contaminated with Salmonella bacteria ( 1 ). Salmonella infection is characterized by fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal cramping beginning about 12 hours after consuming the contaminated food, and typically lasts up to 7 days ( 1 ).

What many people don't know, however, is that raw eggs are not the only threat in raw cookie dough. Raw flour can contain bacteria like E.coli, which is not something to mess around with! Heat treating the flour beforehand kills off any bacteria without hurting any of the flavor, and it only takes a few minutes to do.

Why do they tell you not to eat cookie dough? ›

Since flour is not heat-treated, any flour and baking mixes you buy could be contaminated with these bacteria. While heat kills the bacteria, eating raw cookie dough (and similar mixtures, like cake batter) poses risks of food poisoning.

You might think that because vegan cookie dough doesn't contain eggs, you're not at risk of contracting a foodborne illness. But this isn't entirely true. According to the Centers for Disease Control, consuming raw flour is also a salmonella risk. “Flour doesn't look like a raw food, but most flour is raw,” it notes.

Edible Cookie Dough is chocolate chip cookie dough that is made without eggs that you can eat by the spoonful! Try my Cookie Dough Frosting for another sweet way to satisfy your chocolate chip cookie craving.

Other retailers and manufacturers have been selling dough as a dessert for a while now. Made with no raw eggs, Nestle Toll House Edible Cookie Dough carries little risk of salmonella poisoning.