No-Bake Cookie Dough Bites

These no-bake cookie dough bites are made from edible cookie dough, rolled up and dipped in chocolate - the perfect sweet treat!

Let's be honest, the best part about making cookies is munching on the cookie dough before it even makes it to the oven!

Now with these edible cookie dough bites, you can skip the pretense of making cookies, and get straight to the good stuff! This no-bake recipe is super easy and is made without eggs so they are safe to eat raw.

I have many a cookie recipe on this site, some of my favorites including my Brown Butter Pecan Cookies and my Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cookies, but sometimes you just want good old fashioned raw cookie dough.

This edible cookie dough recipe is actually an adaption of the cookie dough I use inside my Cookie Dough Cheesecake, but it has been rolled into balls and dipped in chocolate to make chocolate chip cookie dough bites instead - almost like cookie dough truffles!

Jump to:

• Ingredients
• How to Make Edible Cookie Dough
• How to Coat the Cookie Dough Bites in Chocolate
• How is this Different Than Regular Cookie Dough?
• Do I have to Cover Them In Chocolate?
• Can I Bake Edible Cookie Dough?
• Storage
• More Bite-sized Treats
• Recipe

Ingredients

You are just a few simple ingredients away from your delicious edible chocolate chip cookie dough!

• Butter - You can use salted or unsalted butter for this recipe, make sure the butter is softened to room temperature before beginning.

• White Sugar - We'll use two kinds of sugar in this cookie dough, the first is white sugar, make sure it's extra fine (caster sugar in the UK).

• Light Brown Sugar - We'll also use light brown sugar, the natural flavor of the brown sugar will make a deeper, slightly caramel flavor to the cookie dough. You could also use dark brown sugar if you like, but this will have a stronger molasses flavor.

• Flour - Use all-purpose flour. To be extra safe, or if you have a compromised immune system, you can also heat treat the flour. See the section on this below for more information.

• Milk - The milk helps to make this a super soft cookie dough that has a luxurious, smooth feeling when you bite into it. I used whole milk, but you can use any kind of milk you like.

• Salt - The salt really adds something to this cookie dough, bringing out the flavor and making the bites very moreish!

• Vanilla - You can use vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste.

• Chocolate Chips - I like to use mini chocolate chips for these, but you can use the regular size chips too. You can use any kind of chocolate you like, milk chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips or semi-sweet chocolate chips.

• Chocolate - The chocolate is for dipping the cookie dough bites in. Make sure you use real chocolate, not a chocolate candy bar or chocolate chips for this part, as these both have extra ingredients which will stop the chocolate form melting and setting the way we want it to. Use milk, dark or white chocolate.

See recipe card for quantities.

How to Make Edible Cookie Dough

This super easy edible cookie dough recipe comes together in just 3-4. minutes. Perfect to whip up for the whole family for movie night!

• If you want to heat treat your flour, do this first thing before anything else. Measure it into a microwave-safe bowl, microwave for 50 seconds and then let cool completely before sifting it.

• Put the butter, white sugar and brown sugar into a large mixing bowl and mix together until fluffy. It may be easiest to do this in a stand mixer or a hand mixer, but you can also just use a wooden spoon.

• Add the vanilla and mix in.

• Add the dry ingredients, including the heat-treated flour and salt and mix until a dough forms.

• Add the milk, a little at a time, stirring until the cookie dough reaches the consistency you would like. If you don't want to cover them in chocolate, you won't want to use much of the milk, so the cookie dough balls can hold their shape. But if you will be dipping them, you can add all of it so make a nice, smooth, creamy center for the cookie dough truffles.

• Once the milk is incorporated and the dough is the thickness you would like, add the chocolate chips and mix until evenly dispersed.

• If the cookie dough is very soft, you may want to refrigerate for 20 minutes before moving on to the next step, just to make it easier to handle.

• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

• Use a small cookie scoop, mini ice cream scoop or a spoon to take a small scoop of cookie dough, then roll it into a ball in your hands and place on the cookie sheet. Repeat until all the cookie dough is used up.

• Let the edible cookie dough balls chill in the fridge while you prepare the chocolate.

How to Coat the Cookie Dough Bites in Chocolate

• For best results, I strongly recommend you temper your chocolate. I have a full guide on how to do this easily, at home, with or without a thermometer.
  
  Lots of people find the idea of tempering chocolate a little daunting but I promise it's easier than you think - you can even do it in the microwave! Check out my Chocolate Tempering Blog post, which also includes a video tutorial.
  
  If you don't want to temper the chocolate, you can just melt it in the microwave in 30-second increments, but it may not set as well as it would if it were tempered.

• There are two ways to encase the cookie dough bites in chocolate. Dipping or using a mold. The dipping method is quicker and easier, but the mold method will produce a much more polished, finessed result.

• For the dipping method, pour your melted chocolate into a small bowl or jug, and dip the chilled cookie dough bites into the chocolate, one at a time, using a fork to move it around so it is evenly coated all over.
  
  Lift it out with the fork and wiggle the fork a little to shake off any excess chocolate. Place the chocolate-coated cookie dough bite back onto the baking sheet and let the chocolate set. (If this chocolate is tempered, it should set very quickly - within a minute or two.
  
  If it is not tempered, you may need to put them in the fridge to set).

• For the mold method, it really is best to temper the chocolate. Choose any kind of chocolate or truffle mold you like, I opted for these pretty hearts. Once the chocolate is tempered, Pour chocolate into each cavity of the mold, filling almost to the top.

• Once filled, tip the mold upside down over a large bowl or baking sheet, in order to capture all the chocolate (we don't want to waste good chocolate!) Let the chocolate drizzle out until it naturally slows down, then flip the mold back over and use a pastry scraper or something similar to smooth the top of the mold and wipe away any excess. Let the chocolate set.

• Once the chocolate has set, use your hands to press the edible cookie dough into the molds, making sure to press to the sides. Don't overfill them or you won't be able to seal them properly.

• Pour more chocolate over the top to fill in any extra space and seal the chocolates, smooth over again with your pastry scraper and let set entirely before unmolding.

How is this Different Than Regular Cookie Dough?

Classic cookie dough contains raw eggs which could contain Salmonella or E. coli.

These days, most eggs that you can buy in the supermarket in the UK are actually safe to eat raw. I use raw eggs in many of my recipes, such as my Baileys Chocolate Mousse. I've also been licking the cake batter off the spoon for 30 years and have never once gotten sick from it.

However, if you are reading this from outside the UK and want to use one of my raw egg recipes, you'll have to check your egg carton to see if they have been pasteurized (have a P on the package), or substitute for carton eggs - any egg products in the US that are out of their shell have to be pasteurized by law.

The chances of getting sick from raw eggs are quite slim these days, but if you are baking for someone who is pregnant, immuno-compromised or elderly, it's always better to err on the side of caution. That's why this recipe is completely safe to eat with no raw eggs at all.

The other potential risk factor is the raw flour. In some cases, flour can contain some harmful bacteria which may cause an upset stomach. This is usually not an issue as the flour is heated in the baking process, killing any potential risks.

But since this is a no-bake recipe, you can heat-treat the flour before beginning, in order to protect your digestive health. It's super quick and easy, you can just microwave the flour in the microwave for 50 seconds, then let it cool completely before using it in the recipe.

Do I have to Cover Them In Chocolate?

You don't have to but.... why wouldn't you?! If you would prefer to skip the chocolate outer shell, you can just roll the cookie dough into balls and serve them as they are. In this case, I would add less milk to the dough so they will be a bit sturdier and more likely to hold their shape.

I do highly recommend the chocolate-covered cookie dough though, they're pretty, easy to handle, and who doesn't love anything covered in chocolate?

Can I Bake Edible Cookie Dough?

This recipe has been specifically formulated to be eaten as cookie dough. Technically you could bake it, but it wouldn't give as good results as an actual cookie recipe - like these Pistachio Cookies, or these Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Storage

Store the cookie dough bites in an airtight container. You can keep them at room temperature or in the fridge, depending on your preference. If you don't do the chocolate coating, I recommend storing them in the fridge. They will be good like this for a week.

You can also freeze the cookie dough bites for up to a month in a Ziploc bag and enjoy them whenever the cookie dough cravings hit!

More Bite-sized Treats

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