Cookie Dough

Next Saturday July 28, 2012 is a very big day.   Two of my very best friends will get married to each other.  I have been counting down the days to this wedding for what feels like years!  There are a lot of great things happening at this wedding: a bowling party, live band, really thoughtful decor and the best part a soft serve ice cream machine for dessert.  In an effort to be just a little bit helpful, I offered to make/bake whatever was needed for this eventful weekend.  My friend requested cookie dough to go with the soft serve ice cream sundae bar.


So, I went online and searched for a good tasting, eggless, safe to eat raw cookie dough recipe.  I found one that is meant for cookie dough truffles and modified it slightly for my use.  Pulling this dough together was a little too easy.  I need to be careful that I don't turn cookie dough making into a habit...


Here is the recipe which was adapted from Bakerella.com


Ingredients:

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature

1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup good quality chocolate chips ( I used Ghirardelli)

Directions:

• In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars with an electric mixer until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes)

• Mix in milk and vanilla

• Add flour and salt and mix on low until combined

• With a wooden spoon or spatula stir in chocolate chips

• Chill dough in refrigerator for about 30 minutes until firm enough to roll or scoop into bite size pieces.  Freeze until ready to serve.

Enjoy! I know I will.