Edible Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
Make edible peanut butter cookie dough you can eat straight from the bowl! You can whip this edible cookie dough recipe up in under 5 minutes, and there’s enough to share with a friend.
I think we’re all in agreement that the best part of making cookies is sneaking fingerfuls of dough from the bowl. However, it’s not the safest, especially for little kids or pregnant women.
Which is why you need this edible peanut butter cookie dough recipe. It’s egg-free and uses heat-treated flour to make sure that you can enjoy all the peanut butter flavor without any of the nasty germs. You can toss this edible dough together in under 5 minutes, which makes it a perfect quick dessert for whenever that sweet tooth hits.
Ingredients
You can make this easy dessert with a few simple ingredients. These are largely pantry staple ingredients, which means you can pull this together whenever the mood strikes.
- Butter or Margarine: You can use either butter or margarine in this recipe. I use salted butter when I do butter, but you can use unsalted butter. If you want a bit more salt, add a little sprinkle!
- Peanut Butter: I recommend creamy peanut butter for this recipe. You can make this with both natural peanut butter and chunky peanut butter, but I like the consistency that smooth peanut butter gives it.
- Granulated Sugar: You can sub this for brown sugar if you don’t have any. The flavor will be a bit more nutty.
- Brown Sugar: You can sub this for white sugar. The flavor will be sweeter.
- Flour: This recipe uses all-purpose flour. You should use heat-treated flour in raw cookie dough (see tip below).
Heat-Treated Flour
Raw flour can give you salmonella or E. coli. It’s actually just as dangerous as raw eggs! To kill those nasty little bugs, you can bake your flour for 5 minutes at 350°. Let the flour come to room temperature, and then you can use your cooled flour in edible cookie dough. For more info, check out this post on making flour safe for no bake recipes!
Instructions
This recipe is so simple, it feels a bit odd to include this section. But, just in case you need a few more tips, here’s the step-by-step recipe:
Step 1 | Mix it Up
In a medium bowl, mix all your ingredients together. This can give you quite the arm workout if you use a wooden spoon, so I’d recommend an electric mixer or hand mixer to make the job easier.
Also, softening your butter before use makes this come together much easier. If you forget to soften your butter first, you can use Sally from Sally’s Baking Addiction’s neat little trick to soften it in about 10 minutes.
If you want to add your favorite mix-ins here, you can! I love chocolate chips and M&Ms.
Step 2 | Enjoy!
There are so many ways you can enjoy peanut butter cookie dough. You can eat this straight from the bowl, which is probably my favorite. I also love to crumble cookie dough pieces into homemade ice cream (it stays soft even after being frozen). You can roll it into balls and dip it into chocolate to make peanut butter truffles, which taste like peanut butter cups. Another option is to roll the dough into cookie dough balls, then press a crisscross pattern on the top with the tines of the fork — now you’ve got no-bake peanut butter cookies!
My kids love this spread between two graham crackers as an afternoon snack.
Important Note
Don’t bake this dough! It is not regular cookie dough — it’s missing a leavening agent and appropriate amounts of fat. If you do bake it, you will get hard little cookie bricks. Don’t do it.
If you’re looking for an actual peanut butter cookie recipe, I have a 2 ingredient one here, and this is my favorite more traditional one.
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FAQs
Yes! This edible peanut butter cookie dough is made without eggs and uses heat-treated flour, making it safe to enjoy raw.
No, this recipe is specifically designed to be eaten raw. If you’re looking for an actual peanut butter cookie recipe, I have a 2 ingredient one here, and this is my favorite more traditional one.
Store the cookie dough in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week. You can also freeze it for up to three months.
If the dough feels too thick or dry, add one tablespoon of water at a time until it reaches your desired consistency.
Edible Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
Ingredients
- ¼ cup butter or margarine
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup baked flour
- mix -ins! optional
Instructions
- Cream butter, peanut butter, and sugars.
- Add flour and mix until well combined. (If dough is too dry, add a small amount of water. If too wet, add a small amount of flour).
- Add in any mix-ins and serve!
Notes
Thank you I’m going to make this and add it t my homemade ice cream…
That sounds amazing – it’s like homemade Cold Stone at your house!
My kids are obsessed with eating cooking dough, so this is a no-brainer for me! so easy to make and so quick too! love the added chocolate chips, because like you said, chocolate is always welcome 🙂
I can’t keep my kids out of the dough either! I hope your family enjoys it 🙂
This sounds amazing! I secretly like the dough more then the cookies sometimes!
That’s definitely true for me with oatmeal and peanut butter!
EVeryone believes that it is the raw egg that is what makes people sick from eating raw cookie dough – this is false to a certain degree. Mainly because the “dangerous” bacteria – if it’s there AT ALL – is on the SHELL and the reason people get sick is because the residue gets in the egg when cracked. All it takes is it thoroughly clean the outside of the egg – a little soap and hot water.
RAW four is actually the real culprit…
According to the FDA, eggs can be contaminated by salmonella on both the inside and outside through packaging and farming practices. Therefore simply washing an egg does not get rid of the possibility.
I was not aware of the raw flour issue, but it seems the FDA has warned against that as well. If you’re worried about the flour, baking it at 350 for 5 minutes renders it safe to use.
Your recipes look amazing. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for the kind words!