Always find yourself gobbling up the cookie dough before baking the cookies? This Edible Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough is designed to eat raw, giving you all the classic cinnamon-sugar snickerdoodle taste, without having to turn on your oven!
By heat-treating the flour to make it safe to consume raw, and with a naturally egg-free recipe, you can eat as much of this edible cookie dough as you’d like, without the risk of the stomachache. (See this Funfetti cookie dough, next!).
Plus, as a time-strapped mom who absolutely loves a sweet treat, I love a fun dessert that I can make without even turning on my oven. Just 10 minutes required to make one of my favorite no-bake dessert recipes!
Edible Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Ingredient Highlights
You’ll have to heat-treat the flour before consuming it to avoid ingesting any unwanted bacteria.
Unsalted butter is preferred so you can control the amount of salt. Most importantly, make sure the butter is softened. For help, see How to Quickly and Easily Soften Butter.
Edible Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Tips and Tricks
How to Make Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough to Eat Raw
Just like eggs, all-purpose flour is not ready-to-eat when it’s raw. Eating flour raw can put you at risk of ingesting unwanted bacteria like E. Coli. So, it’s important to “heat treat” it before adding it to your edible sugar cookie dough.
“Heat-treat” just means bringing the temperature of the flour up to kill any bacteria that may be inside of it. Don’t worry, it’s super quick and totally easy! You can heat-treat your flour in the microwave or the oven.
If you’d rather use the microwave (I did promise you no-bake, after all), just add your flour to a microwave-safe bowl. Then, heat on high in 30-second intervals, stirring in between for a total of 90 seconds.
For the oven method, simply spread your flour out on a large baking sheet. Then, bake it on the bottom rack of your oven at 300°F for a quick 5 minutes. This method is a little more hands-off.
Pro tip: It’s best to heat treat your flour first, so it has time to come back down to room temperature before you add it to your cookie dough.
Adding the flour to your batter while it’s still piping hot risks melting your butter and changing the consistency of your raw cookie dough.
Add the butter and sugar to a mixing bowl and use a hand mixer to cream together. Creaming them together will aerate the cookie dough, giving it a light and delicious consistency.
Use your hand mixer on high to combine the sugar and butter for about 2-3 minutes.
Then, mix in the rest of your ingredients. Make sure your flour has cooled back down to room temperature before adding it.
Add the cooled flour, milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt to the butter and sugar mixture. Use your hand mixer one last time to combine until smooth. If you want to thin out your dough further, slowly add extra milk as needed.
I love eating this edible cookie dough with a spoon, but you can also choose to roll them into little bite size balls to serve as pop-in-your-mouth treats. You can even roll these bite-sized balls in extra cinnamon sugar.
You can also choose to eat this Snickerdoodle dough like a dip! It’s delicious with pretzels, crackers, and fruits like banana, apple slices, and pear.
For the ultimate treat, serve it up with graham crackers, Nilla wafers, or Teddy Grams!
Storing your Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough
This cookie dough will last up to 10 days in an airtight container in the refrigerator. I love eating this dough cold, but if you prefer to eat it at room temperature, just remove it from the refrigerator up to 2 hours before you dive in!
You can also freeze this edible cookie dough for up to 3 months. Just allow it to thaw out at room temperature for at least a couple of hours or overnight in the fridge.
Quick 10-Minute Edible Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough
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Ingredients
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (plant-based option works!)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons milk (dairy or unsweetened nondairy)
- ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Heat-treat your flour in one of two ways:Microwave method: Add flour to a microwave-safe bowl and microwave on high for 30 seconds. Stir a couple of times. Repeat two more times for a total of 90 seconds.Oven method: Preheat oven to 300°F. Spread the flour out on a baking sheet and bake on the bottom rack for 5 minutes.¾ cup all-purpose flour
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar with a hand mixer until aerated and combined (2-3 minutes).4 tablespoons unsalted butter, ½ cup granulated sugar
- Once the flour has come back down to room temperature, add it to the butter and sugar along with the vanilla extract, milk, cinnamon, and salt. Use your hand mixer to combine.½ teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 teaspoons milk, ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon salt
- Serve with a spoon or use clean hands to roll the dough into bite-sized balls—about 1 teaspoon of dough in each. If you want to thin out your cookie dough further to eat more easily with a spoon, slowly add more milk until you're happy with the thickness.
Pro Tips
- Make sure your flour has cooled before adding it to your butter and sugar mixture.
- For more edible cookie dough, check out these variations: Funfetti, Sugar Cookie, and Chocolate Chip!
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2 thoughts on “Quick 10-Minute Edible Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough”
Love it, it’s so good!
Yay!! so glad you enjoyed, Sloane!