Yes! It is totally safe to eat vegan cookie dough.
Remember your childhood where your mother refused to eat raw cookie dough. This was because those cookie doughs were not vegan. Traditional cookie doughs were made with wheat flour, eggs, milk, and some flavours added to it along with sugar. Eating raw eggs is dangerous to health as raw eggs might contain bacteria like salmonella that are harmful to our body.
But with vegan cookie doughs, this is not a problem. Eggs and raw milk are entirely avoided in vegan cookie dough. So, you need not worry about bacterial infections while eating it raw!
Sometimes there are chances of getting bacterial infections when you eat raw wheat flour while biting on the cookie dough. But when this dough is baked to cookies, the bacteria are killed. It is necessary to heat the flour at 165oC in order to avoid the risk of bacterial infection.
You can also choose to make or purchase the vegan cookie doughs that are gluten-free and contain flours made from chickpeas, oats, almonds, etc. These flours are made after heating the ingredients at high temperatures. Thus, the risk of bacterial infection comes to zero when you consume such cookie doughs raw.
Shelf-Life Of Vegan Cookie Dough
Vegan cookie dough is perishable like other food products. It starts losing its texture and original taste after the 3rd day of the storage. However, if it is appropriately stored in a refrigerator, you can have it maximum within 5-7 days after making the cookie dough. Some commercially available vegan cookie doughs contain preservatives and can be stored for a more extended period of time.
The sooner you consume the cookie dough, lesser are the chances of bacteria present on your cookie dough, and ultimately the risk of bacterial infection reduces. You can freeze your cookie dough if you want to store it for longer. Then defrost the quantity that you require at a time.
Storage Of Vegan Cookie Dough
One of the most essential tips to store the raw cookie dough is that you should store it in an airtight container. This helps to avoid aeration in the container and prevent the cookie dough from the decay process.
Before freezing the cookie dough, wrap it in a cling wrap or plastic such that it is entirely covered with the wrap. Then add this wrapped cookie dough in an airtight container and store it into a freezer.
The cookie dough stored in this manner can last up to 90-95 days in the freezer. But don’t forget to wrap the cookie dough properly after taking out the part you want to use for best results.
Eating Raw Vegan Cookie Dough
Raw vegan cookie dough tastes good if you simply take a spoonful of dough and devour it with no add-ons or further cooking processes. However, there are multiple ways you can enjoy eating raw vegan cookie dough. These ways are as follows:
- Mix it with an ice-cream and enjoy the cookie dough ice-cream.
- Make truffles out of raw cookie dough by rolling them into balls and dipping them into melted chocolate.
- Mix the cookie dough with hot cocoa to make a cookie dough flavoured hot chocolate mix
- Use chickpea or other protein-rich flour to make the vegan cookie dough and have it as a protein-rich ball.
- Make frostings on cupcakes using the raw vegan cookie dough.
- Incorporate the layers of raw vegan cookie dough between the cake pieces and make a multilayered cake with a delightful taste of cookie dough.
- Have it as a frozen treat after freezing it into popsicles
- Make frozen milk bars adding the raw vegan cookie dough into the sweetened and thickened milk and enjoy the cookie dough flavoured milk bars.
- Stuff the vegan cookie dough between the macaroons or between the biscuits of your choice
- Make your oatmeal nutrient-dense and protein-rich by adding chickpea, almond or any other protein-dense vegan cookie dough to it.
- Add it to a fruit pudding.
- Layer it on your pancakes and have a refreshing breakfast/snack
- Add small crumbs of raw vegan cookie dough to any milkshake.
- Take a tortilla, layer it with chocolate spread, add raw vegan cookie dough, roll it, and enjoy the filling snack.
- Layer the bread or toast with any nut butter and spread cookie dough on the top. You can also make a cookie dough sandwich by filling it between two layers of the bread.
Who Can Eat Vegan Cookie Dough
Everyone can enjoy this edible vegan cookie dough. It is specially designed for people following veganism who totally avoid animal products in their food as well as a daily lifestyle. Moreover, this cookie dough does not contain milk, so it is suitable for people suffering from problems like lactose intolerance.
Apart from this, you can also modify the vegan cookie dough according to your preferences and health conditions. Suppose, anyone suffering from gluten intolerance or celiac disease wants to consume raw vegan cookie dough, the individual can replace the wheat flour with chickpea/ nut flour.
If you are involved in heavy exercises and are body conscious, you can reduce the amount of sugar or sugar sources and make it with gluten-free oats flour/chickpea flour/ almond flour, add dark chocolate chips, nuts and healthy seeds to it and have it post-workout to maintain the levels of protein as well as essential fats in your body.
How To Make Homemade Edible Vegan Cookie Dough
You can find edible cookie dough easily in the market or at online stores. But it is not hard to make it yourself. In order to enjoy making your edible cookie dough, follow the recipe given below, and enjoy the homemade cookie dough:
| Recipe name: High protein vegan cookie dough Preparation time: 5-10 minutes Pre-preparation: Not needed Course: Dessert Cuisine: American Number of servings: 2 Ingredients: Chickpea flour – ¼ cup Almond flour – ¼ cup Nut butter – ¾ tablespoon (you can adjust the amount according to your choice) Maple syrup – 3 ½ teaspoon Flavourful extract of your choice – ¾ teaspoon Dark chocolate chips & roasted nuts – 1 tablespoon Fruit sauce (optional) – 1 tablespoon (is you want a thin consistency) Sea salt – ¼ – ½ teaspoon Utensils and equipment: 2 Big bowls Measuring cups and spoons Cooking spoon 1 Hand whisker Method of preparation: Don’t forget to clean your hands with soap before starting the preparation. Mix all the dry ingredients well in a clean container after passing them through a sieve Mix the wet ingredients with the dry mixture. Mix it well with a hand whisker Your cookie dough is ready to eat! Note: This cookie dough is meant to eat raw. If you want to bake it, add a tablespoon of baking powder along with a pinch of baking soda to it before baking the mixture. |
Modification Options: High Protein Vegan Cookie Dough
You can modify this cookie dough recipe by using the flour of your choice. You can also use different flavoured extracts to alter the taste of the cookie dough. Other modification options are as follows:
- Instead of dark chocolate chips, you can use any chocolate chips along with dry fruits and seeds like pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, etc.
- You can use sprinklers to garnish the dough and make it appealing for your children.
- You can add shredded coconut to the cookie dough to give it the flavours of coconut.
- You can also add crushed toffees, caramel covered nuts, chopped candy bars, vegan marshmallows, fruit/ ginger candy, fresh or dried berries, etc. to this cookie dough.
Conclusion
Thus, you can enjoy eating vegan cookie dough without any fear. Buy it from the market or make it at home. But do not forget to store it well if you wish to use it for a longer time. No matter if you are a fitness freak or a hardcore foodie; you can have this vegan cookie dough with modifications that suits you and enjoy it guilt-free.
Fulfil your cravings for raw cookie dough by choosing the vegan option!