Edible Sugar Cookie Dough
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Today’s Edible Sugar Cookie Dough is a small-batch, no-bake sugar cookie dough that’s buttery, sweet and filled with colorful, rainbow sprinkles. All of the nostalgic flavors of sneaking bites of sugar cookie dough, without the risk and with just a handful of everyday ingredients.
Edible Sugar Cookie Dough Recipe
This soft, creamy Edible Sugar Cookie Dough is completely safe to eat raw and comes together in just minutes with a few common baking ingredients.
By skipping the eggs and heat-treating the flour, we remove the risks normally posed from eating raw cookie dough – so not only can you enjoy spoonful after spoonful to your heart’s content, you can happily share it with friends and family.
Butter, vanilla and almond extracts give the sugar cookie dough its signature warm, buttery flavor, while the heat-treated flour and sugar give this dough the toothsome chew of real sugar cookie dough. If you like the gritty texture of the white sugar, you can enjoy right after making it, but if you prefer to not have that texture, the grittiness will disappear after refrigerating this edible cookie dough in the fridge for an hour (or overnight).
This is a fun recipe to make with the kids and makes a fun option for movie nights, gifting to friends or a sweet treat to keep the kids’ fingers out of the REAL sugar cookie dough while doing some holiday baking.
Edible Sugar Cookie Dough Variations:
- Brown the butter by melting in a saucepan over medium heat until the milk fats start to caramelize and turn brown
- Add 1/2 teaspoon of lemon or orange zest for a touch of citrus flavor
- Use almond flour for a gluten-free option that also skips the need to heat treat the flour
- Add crushed pretzels, caramel bits or other mix-ins for added texture and flavor
- Fold in crushed OREO cookies for a cookies-and-cream twist
- Swap out the vanilla extract for another flavor extract, like lemon extract, for a flavored sugar cookie variation
- Dye the dough or swap out the sprinkles to suit a variety of different occasions or holidays
How to Serve Edible Sugar Cookie Dough
- Use as a cookie sandwich filling by spreading between two graham crackers or vanilla wafer cookies
- Serve with dippables like graham crackers, vanilla wafers, fruit, pretzels, etc.
- Roll into Tablespoon-sized pieces and refrigerate or freeze for a pre-portioned treat.
- Add to homemade or store-bought vanilla ice cream to make your own sugar cookie dough ice cream
- Or, simply serve with a spoon
Can I microwave the flour to heat treat it? Yes, place the flour in a microwave-safe bowl and heat in three 30-second increments, stirring in between, for a total of 90 seconds.
How can I bake this sugar cookie dough? Note that while this sugar cookie dough can be warmed up, it won’t bake up into a cookie if baked since the recipe doesn’t contain any leavening agents.
How to store edible sugar cookie dough: This edible dough can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.
How to freeze edible sugar cookie dough: Wrap the dough well and then place in an airtight, ziptop freezer bag or your favorite freezer containers. (This set of freezer containers is a crazy bargain.) Enjoy within 3 months.
Edible Sugar Cookie Dough Ingredients
- All-Purpose Flour
- Butter, softened
- White Sugar
- Milk, or more as needed
- Vanilla Extract
- Almond Extract, optional
- Salt
- Sprinkles, optional
Scroll down to the printable recipe card for full measurements.
Tip: don’t skip the salt, as it doesn’t make the recipe salty but instead intensifies the other flavors in this recipe.
Kitchen Tools You May Find Helpful
- Measuring Cups and Spoons
- Cookie Sheet
- Mixing Bowl
- Electric mixer <– this is a great hand mixer if you don’t want to make the investment into a stand mixer
How to Make Edible Sugar Cookie Dough
Preheat oven to 350F.
Spread the all-purpose flour on a baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes, stirring once halfway through.
Allow heat-treated flour to cool completely before proceeding with the rest of the recipe.
In a medium-sized bowl, beat together the butter and white sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
Beat in the milk, vanilla and almond extracts until well-combined.
Whisk together the flour and salt and then add to the batter and beat until completely incorporated and no dry streaks remain.
Add sprinkles, as desired, and then refrigerate until ready to serve.
Makes approximately 10 servings.
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Edible Sugar Cookie Dough
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 1/4 cup Butter, softened
- 4 Tablespoons White Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Milk, or more as needed
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 teaspoon Almond Extract, optional
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- Sprinkles, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Spread the all-purpose flour on a baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes, stirring once halfway through.
- Allow heat-treated flour to cool completely before proceeding with the rest of the recipe.
- In a medium-sized bowl, beat together the butter and white sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
- Beat in the milk, vanilla and almond extracts until well-combined.
- Whisk together the flour and salt and then add to the batter and beat until completely incorporated and no dry streaks remain.
- Add sprinkles, as desired, and then refrigerate until ready to serve.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
10Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 88Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 12mgSodium: 91mgCarbohydrates: 10gFiber: 0gSugar: 5gProtein: 1g
Sugar, Spice and Glitter uses an auto-generate nutrition calculator. Nutrition information isn’t always accurate unless analyzed in a scientific lab, so these should be considered more of a guideline than medical information.
I hope your family loves this easy edible sugar cookie dough recipe as much as mine does!
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