My great-grandmother and my grandmother grew up eating raw cookie dough without any regard for the raw eggs or getting sick because of them. However in the last few years of my great-grandmother's life she was worried about getting myself and my cousins sick and, as the story was told to me, found a way to make a raw cookie dough without eggs that still tasted the same but was safe to eat. So here's her recipe, made this week because my roommate also loves raw dough and tries to filch some any time I make cookies and now he can just have it to himself and not have me swatting him with a spoon while I'm trying to bake.
You'll need the following;
- 1/2 cup butter (one stick) at room temperature
- 3/4 cups lightly packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
- 1 bag chocolate chips
So basically instead of eggs and oil to make the dough wet this recipe relies on sweetened condensed milk to do the job. And because it doesn't bake there's no need for salt or baking powder/baking soda either which I think gives it more of a 'pure' flavor than most other kinds of cookie dough.
I opted for basic chocolate too, but obviously as with any cookie you can use any kinds of chocolate chips, candies like M&M's or mini peanutbutter cups or whatever you like in it or just leave it plain :)
First step is to take your butter and brown sugar and cream them together. This is the reason it's important for your butter to be room temperature, if you try to use cold butter it'll just clump and not do what it's supposed to.
Mix in the rest of your ingredients and stir until it's basically the consistency of regular cookie dough.
From here you can do one of a few things. My great-grandmother would portion it out by using a spoon and rolling it up like little balls of dough. I prefer to spread it out on some baking paper and stick it in the fridge, because it has butter in it so it still does need to be kept in the fridge when not consumed. This way it gets a little more stiff and easy to just take a section of whenever we want some.
I'll probably roll it into balls when I take a bit over to the lady across the hall tomorrow, but for now it's just in our fridge as is and like....1/4 of the way gone already XD
Banner was made by me in Photoshop. All other pictures here were taken by me specifically for this post. I have been a home cook for over a decade, and any questions or comments about this recipe are encouraged!
