Because this sugar cookie dough does not contain eggs or uncooked flour, you can safely eat it out of your mixing bowl. Enjoy.

Not everyone likes chocolate cookies. For some people, sugar cookies are the real deal. And of course, one of the major benefits of making sugar cookies is being able to eat leftover cookie dough. Duh!

Instead of leaving chocolate chips out of a chocolate chip recipe, why not make these sugar cookies?

Here are the ingredients you need:

• Butter. Butter makes it taste good. 

• Granulated Sugar. Brown sugar will give the cookies a molasses sugar. WE are going with normal sugar so that we get a vanilla flavor.

• All Purpose Flour. Heating the flour will kill bacteria and make it safe to eat.

• Vanilla Extract. This will give the sugar-cookies flavor.

• Milk. Milk will hold everything together. 

Killing Bacteria in the Flour

To kill all bacteria in the all-purpose-flour, raise its temperature to 160 degrees Fahrenheit which is hot enough to kill E.coli. Here is how to raise the temperature of the flour to 160 degrees Fahrenheit:

•  Microwave: Microwave the two cups of flour in a microwave safe bowl for two minutes on high. A pause in between should keep it from burning. 
• Oven: heat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake the flour for 5 minutes. The flour should be evenly spread on a rimmed baking sheet. 

Give the flour time to cool before you toss it into the dough. If you add the flour while it is hot, it will change the consistency by slightly melting the butter and sugar. You want to enjoy the cookie dough at a nice, cool temperature. 

You can now eat your cookie dough, or use it as pie crust, make cookie dough pretzel bites, mix it with ice cream, or use it to make cookie dough truffles (just dip it in chocolate).

Remember that this is not the recipe for baking cookie dough. Without eggs and leavening agents that bind the mixture together and give your cookie dough some much needed structure, your cookie will become a flat, melting mess.

Eggs and leavening agents trap air in your cookie, making it rise. They keep your cookie from becoming a puddle. If you are interested in baking sugar cookies, you will need to find another recipe for that.  

Some store bought cookie dough brands are supposed to be safe to eat and bakeable. But not everyone is successful with them. 

How Long is it Good for?

Once your sugar cookie dough is ready, you can store it in the fridge for up to a week. But you will probably have eaten it before then. 

If you don’t want to use it immediately, wrap it in a plastic film and place it in a freezer bag before storing it in the freezer. It should be good for three months in the freezer.

Edible Cookie Dough

Ingredients

Half a cup softened butter

Half a cup granulated sugar

One and a half cups all-purpose flour

3 tbsp milk

1tsp vanilla

Instructions

Fit a paddle attachment on your stand mixer and beat the butter and granulated sugar together. Add in the vanilla and beat it more. 

Turn down the speed of the mixer to low. Add some milk, followed by flour and mix all ingredients. Add sprinkles and mix them in. 

Your edible sugar cookie dough is ready to eat.